Sunlight and Shadow

While walking the shore of Moreau Lake, I saw these perfectly beautiful leaves and fruits of Maple-leaved Viburnum  (Viburnum acerifolium) leaning out from the woods.  No other shrub bears leaves of this gorgeous pinky-purple color in the fall, and it is rare that I find both the leaves and the berries of this native shrub so beautifully intact.  So I promptly stopped to take a photo.

I was grateful to have the sunshine illuminating both leaves and flowers so perfectly:

But then a cloud drifted across the sun, and rather than diminish the beauty of these leaves and fruits, the change of light transformed their color remarkably.  The yellower tones of the sunlit leaves gave way to the bluer tones of the leaves in shadow:

Two different lights, two different colors, two different ways of being absolutely beautiful!