Every so often, God reveals something truly special to me. It's then up to me to do my best to capture it... This was one of those moments. I was away for the weekend with my amazing wife Suzy (not far from Melbourne) when we just happened to walk past this incredible Japanese Maple Tree, ablaze with intense autumn colours. It caught my eye immediately and I made a mental note of exactly when to return to capture it in ideal conditions. I revisited a couple of days later and captured this stunningly colourful photo, and just in time! - less than a week later, the tree had lost almost all of it's leaves and the only ones left had faded. Timing is everything in photography.