Photo of the Week 2010-10-04

A walk with Lynn and Murphy for the first time at nearby Burns Conservation Area in Halton provided a pleasant surprise. We were encouraged by some neighbour friends to check out the trails at this nearby tract. I find it refreshing to experience new trails, with their individual character and nuances, for the first time. With only 2 km of wide well groomed and traveled trails it was an enjoyable if short and leisurely hike.

Photographically, it was all about the soft diffused light with brief moments when light would intensify through a thin area of the cloud cover and spill on the subtle colours of early fall. The leaves of trees in the forest at Burns were mostly yellows and greens with the brilliance of fall read and oranges not yet arrived. Rounding a corner on the trail, the leaves of a lone bush amongst the dark trunks of larger trees seemed to glow in the light spilling form the clouds.

colour on forest trails


DJE