One advantage of achieving a hazy landscape, even if you don't intend it, is that it can look good as a backdrop to something interesting in the foreground! (Er, like using shallow depth of field, you want to say, but I wasn't trying to do this - oops, I ought to be able to tell you what F-stop I used for all these pics - something to improve on next time.)
From the blog image you can just about make out that there are cows in the photo below. They were so beautiful in real life, with richly coloured coats. And in front, two rows of fairly old-looking hay bales (nicely reflecting the light?). I cropped off the left-hand side of my picture so that the tree wasn't in the centre - lost some of the cows and hay bales unfortunately! But I'm happy with the blurry trees and hills in the background - it wouldn't have worked to have everything in sharp focus for this picture, I don't think. Maybe the lesson is that a landscape is more interesting with something substantial in the foreground. The previous photo with a few hay bales on the left doesn't work so well, in my opinion.
Re the next photo - you'd have to see the photo on flickr to appreciate the vibrancy of the colours. I don't know how a liquid amber turned up amongst the silver birches - I was gob-smacked. I have a silver birch that I planted in my front garden and I know that its leaves don't turn gold until almost Christmas - probably by then the liquid amber has dropped its leaves, but how amazing it would be to find this burgundy-coloured tree amid a sea of golden birch leaves! Dream on.
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