Fern Foliage Unfurling
by train

Comment:
... and, given the chance, probably carnivorous!

View From A Falling Leaf
by IAmEliKatz

Comment:
close to a Monet water, in maroonish tones

Golden dream of an autumn leaf
by lavi83

Comment:
Victorian times love note

autumnal
by bvy

Comment:
Spectacular tonality but the picture hurts the eyes in a way autumn never does

romance
by skewsme

Comment:
Like a melody

Silver Autumn
by fpalumbo

Comment:
What a fairy tale!

Ortega Oaks, Santa Ana Mountains
by bspurgeon

Comment:
The enchanted forest

afterward
by posthumous

Comment:
Pushed the processing a bit too much but still beautiful

The last one
by evanescente

Comment:
Beautiful, like a Japanese writing.

"Resignedly, beneath the sky, the melancholy waters lie..."
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Baroque and yet, so simple - this is THE image we long for to contemplate.

"Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them. "

A spectacular palipsest of memory and melancholy as said by the Ecclesiastes

"For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?"

I consider this image a spectacular achievement in photography.
This is by far the best interpretation of the challenge in my view, leaving the digital art and other little tricks way behind.