A different wood this time with Red Maple, English Oak, European Maple as well as the ubiquitous Beech. A mixed deciduous wood, more spectacular in many ways.

The Red Maple aka Acer Rubrum or the swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, originates from the eastern and central Americas. It ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and southwest to East Texas. Here it is planted as an exotic ornamental. 

The English Oak or Quercus Robur aka the European Oak. In England, the oak has assumed the status of a national emblem. Many place names in England include a reference to this tree, including Oakley, Occold and Eyke. Copdock, in Suffolk, probably derives from a pollarded oak ("copped oak"). 'The Royal Oak' is the third most popular pub name in Britain and HMS Royal Oak has been the name of eight major Royal Navy warships. 

 The European Field Maple, not to be confused with the American Sugar Maple and is a member of the Acer genus. Maples are extensively planted as ornamental trees.

The European beech, Fagus sylvatica, is the most commonly cultivated species, with several ornamental varieties, as well as the American Beech, Fagus grandifolia, which is also planted as an exotic ornamental. Beeches are from the family Fagaceae (from Latin fagus 'beech tree') which are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches  themselves  plus chestnuts and oaks. Fagaceae have a truly ancient lineage the oldest fossils for which can be assigned to 81–82 million years old Beech pollen from the Late Cretaceous period.  

So here we have a mixed deciduous forest, once again from its mix of exotics clearly part of a cultivated ornamental landscape which indeed it is, designed to provide colour in the autumn season which it does to great effect.

The pictures here were all produced with my PEN-F combined with the compact M.Zuiko 14-150mm f4-5.6 super zoom. Whilst the latter is not nearly the same quality as say my M.Zuiko 40-150mm f4 Pro it still performs pretty well though you can spot the images taken at 150mm wide open at f5.6! There again the lower performance rendering adds to the overall ambiance of the subject I think.