Shutter Love Tuesdays @ Trendy Treehouse – Japanese maple leaves

Today I am participating in Trendy Treehouse’s Shutter Love Tuesdays again. This week’s theme is Nature.
You can click the photo above to enlarge.

I took these photos this morning in our backyard, looking up at the beautiful blue sky through the leaves of my beautiful Japanese maple trees. You can see the seeds, called samaras or ‘maple keys’; I am quite excited as this is the first time my three favourite trees have produced seeds – nature in action!

I got a bit carried away actually and took quite a few photos! It was hard to pick one favourite, but I decided on the photo above because I love the composition – and the way the sky looks blue on the right side behind the green maple leaves, and looks white behind the red maple leaves on the left.

You can view a slideshow of my maple leaves photos on Flickr