There is a dampness in the air and the cars are now covered in dew. Hello to early autumn.

What is to come? Mist and mellow fruits? Probably. What we can say for definite is that I won’t be able to stand on Beacon hill on a misty day and look over to the Ratcliffe power station and see clouds rising from its cooling towers. (I was going to qualify that statement with ‘probably’ but I understand there is no coal stockpiled so it can’t run.)

We can look forward to the nights drawing in and the clocks being put back (or is it forward? I just can’t remember and I as I live in an Apple world I don’t really have to as all my clocks are automatically reset.)

The flip side of nights drawing is that I won’t have to get up too early to capture the first rays of the sun as they crest over the horizon. It is hardly a Lawrence of Arabia moment but the autumn sunrise has a charm all of its own.

And of course we should get more rain (something we’ve had to endure this summer as well!). With the rain will come the flooding, I do live above a floodplain so this will not be something new.

These of course are the known known. What will the unknown unknowns bring? What will the world look like in December compared to know? On a more personal level what will my small bit of this wider world look like in December? I’m reaching the point in my life where many of the unknown unknown are starting to move into the known unknowns.

What I do know is that the autumn provides opportunities to make great photographs. Whether I seize those opportunities is one of the great unknowns. It’ll be an interesting few months. Or Not.