The thing that we found really difficult was translating the titles of my pictures. A lot of my titles include phrases that refer to particular songs, poems, films, novels and so on. English people may perhaps understand the references, but most Japanese readers probably wouldn't.
そして、例として彼はこの絵をあげました。 これにつけられた邦題は、「落ち葉の壮大な冒険」でした。 本当の題名は、「An Awfully Big Adventure」 Beryl Bainbridge という作家のペーパーバックに、この名前があります。
また、「An Awfully Big Adventure」は1995年に映画化されています。 これには、「恋する予感」という邦題がつけられています。
Your interpretation is just as good as mine!
That said, I suppose 'An Awfully Big Adventure' (for me... perhaps not for anyone else) is probably about taking a journey into the unknown...
The leaf is leaving all the other leaves on the tree and heading towards somewhere new...
But then it is autumn, so it will have to fall off sooner or later...
Maybe it is the first leaf to fall?
It doesn't look as if it is very happy...
And the mushrooms on the ground don't look very happy about someone new arriving on their piece of ground...
Wow, this is difficult! It's hard enough painting the picture without having to explain it too!