Rooftops

It's my favourite time of year again –autumn, or fall if you're American– and no season is more inviting for anyone with a camera. I'm taking lots and lots of pictures at the moment as Norwegian autumns are relatively short but condensed, so that the changes in colour from day to day can be quite dramatic and certainly increasingly splendid, but then it's suddenly all over and winter sets in. The colourful display of nature at this time somehow informs the way I look at other things too –like here the hues and textures of rooftops and buildings close to the city centre of Oslo. What I love about this view is the higgledy-piggledy character of the collection of buildings and the way their variety nonetheless creates a sort of unity. I feel all of these buildings has a story to tell, and I'm fascinated by each of these windows. The charmingly irregular colours and textures of some of the brickwork and tiles mirror a little those of autumn leaves, some of which have already begun to fall, creating golden trimming on the building in the centre. I have increased the saturation of the picture a little for effect, but not that much -autumn doesn't really need it.

Location: Oslo, Norway