Fading

These are summer flowers, but the picture captures a late fall mood.
purple-autochrome-flowers-j-jaderstrom-sweden-via-tekniska-museetAn autochrome still life, probably taken in Sweden, ca. 1910s, by John Jäderström, via Tekniska museet on flickr (under CC license).

Vintage landscape: pink flowers

Pink flowers via George Eastman Hse. on flickr“Glass dish with classical figures, ceramic bowl and vase of flowers,” ca. 1915, an autochrome by H. Wormleighton, via George Eastman House Collection on flickr.

I couldn’t find out anything about H. Wormleighton except that he or she was English and worked in the first three decades of the 20th century.

Pink flowers and bowl, detail, via Geo. Eastman Hse.Detail of first photo.