Fallen Maple Leaves in My Neighbor's Yard 10-24-2015

Leaves are falling from the trees. Sometimes it is just nice to take a picture of the fallen leaves.  I was walking in my neighborhood.  This maple had yellow, orange and various shades of red leaves on the grass. I tried to find a patch that had the leaves mostly facing forward. The left images is without editing and had a blue tone because late afternoon in the shade.  So, I had to decrease that in PSE 11.  I also wanted to give the leaves of this image more "pizzaz" which would make them appear brighter and more satrated with post processing.

Autumn - Maple Leaves with Blue Sky GSO 16th St.

The maple leabes and beech trees are beginning to change color in the Triad.  I like to capture some of these with the "Carolina" blue sky.   However, since I don't have a zoom or telephoto lens for my iPhone 5C., it is hard to get the leaf detail.  It was windy but even a tripod won't help if wind more than 7 mph. Vignette helped to make sky darker. This was takein about noon in full sun. Camera +, HDR.  Edited minimally in PSE 11.