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Spring, warmer temperatures, new trails and a friend to lead the way ...
I was feeling bad that I hadn't seen Grant in several months as schedules always seemed to conspire against it, but he felt up for a walk on the trails behind his place in Freelton and a group of us made plans for Saturday morning.
The usual suspects, Alan and Patrick had to drop out, each for separate health issues (speedy recovery guys) and the weather forecast was less than inspiring. Still there was no way I was going to cancel with schedules finally in sync. If weather brought rain with only a 30% chance (so they said), we would still meet up and go for breakfast and some conversation to catch up.
Fortunately the rain held off but warmer temperatures accompanying the arrival of spring had softened the ice on the creek we had planned to wander making it unwise to walk the frozen surface as it meandered along. Instead we chose to take a trail that roughly followed the same course. We walked and talked, stopped and listened, and talked some more as we made our way along a path familiar to Grant but new to me. Time melted away as we spent almost 3 hours exploring the trail through bush and across fields around the headwaters of Spencer Creek.
Passing by a forest of planted pine, we both stopped to make some images. What struck me, as it always does with similar forests, was the regimented pattern of tall slender trunks trailing off into the distance. These also had the chaos of slender branches radiating outward over their height. For an element of interest to the otherwise structured scene (lessons from the work of Patrick) I included a mid-ground pair of trees that had fallen forming an "X" pattern contrary to the strong repeating verticals.
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| some fall ... |
I found that desaturating the image slightly in post provided the finishing touches for the effect I wanted.
DJE
What did I find when I headed to Tobermory on this first weekend of spring?
Well ...
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| departing shot |
... I guess winter was not ready to leave and make room for spring without a departing shot.
DJE
OK, ok ...OK Already !
A number of my blog followers have let me know that they are tired of winter and my persistent rambling about how I love it ... LOL
Here's an image from this past weekend as the (almost spring) sun warmed the air and began to melt away winter on a local trail. The subject cedar, a veteran of many cycles through the seasons, provided a nice opportunity to create a star-burst as it partially blocked the rising morning sun.
;-)
DJE
It has been an amazing leg of my photographic journey, this first winter on "the Bruce".
... but it all really started a few years ago with my first photography trip to Tobermory. A couple of us decided to make the trek from Guelph for a couple of days photographing winter on "the Bruce". I was taken by the uniqueness of the area and after introducing Lynn to it, she has been touched by it's magic as well.
So touched were we that we now own a recreational property there and have just returned from what will, sadly, be the last days of our first winter. We absolutely loved every moment of it.
Spring 2014 officially arrives on March 19 and there are a whole bunch of .... errrr, ummm people that have been begging for it's arrival, some since the first snow. Pfffftttttt !
I thought I'd provide a short slide show of images showing just some of what I experienced by embracing my first winter on "the Bruce" (slideshow requires flash) .
DJE
A recent, mid-morning trek by snowshoe along the north shore of Hay Bay led eventually to Lake Huron, or at least the frozen surface of Lake Huron. There, under a calm sunny sky, the artistic handiwork of wind and sub-zero temperatures on the Lake Huron canvas were revealed. In front of me and was this beautiful winterscape work of art ...
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| Huron Winterscape |
DJE
