Caught by the Light

The head feels mostly better, just a little niggle, so I called in at the lake while I was out and about. It was very chilly out there but it blew away the cobwebs. There were lots of clouds about but every so often there was a small break and the sun appeared for a few seconds, this was one such occurrence and I was stuck by the gorgeous colours on the tree.....less than five seconds later I took another shot, the sun had disappeared behind the clouds again, the scene looked completely flat, the tree looked a plain dull brown and wouldn't even have caught my eye......it's amazing how much difference a splash of sunshine makes to the look of the photo :-))