Photo of the Week 2014-10-27

Sometimes it is the simple, every-day sights that bring the most pleasure.

Recently, after leaving the hotel on the last day of a business trip in SW Ontario, I was taken by the sight of the morning sky and stopped to sit and finish my coffee while it took it in ...

morning sky

... and of course I had a camera with me.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2014-10-20

Early Sunday afternoon I took some time for a reflective walkabout on my way home from visiting with my mother. I've written about Scotsdale Farm before (see blog post 2012-03-12), but it had been a while since I last visited and this time I was doing a bit of reconnaissance for an upcoming photo session.

The weather had been overcast since leaving the house just after sunrise, but as I began my walk around the grounds, the sun started to push through breaking cloud cover and made the fall leaves glow. I wandered for a while, slipping back and forth between personal introspection and artistic reflection. The time passed quickly and while there and I had the good fortune of meeting Richard from the recently established Friends of Scotsdale Farm, who interrupted his chores to indulge me in a short chat. 

Scotsdale Fall Trail

This week's image was made along the main trail leading away from the barn and pond. It's a great place for a walk to clear your mind, in fall or any other season ...

DJE

Photo of the Week 2014-10-13

As we celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving, autumn colours are near their peak. On the Bruce, that means a plethora of yellow and gold from the poplar, birch and aspen, mixed with the green of the cedar, spruce and tamarack that this still waiting to turn.

I've been looking forward to this time of year, waiting to make some artistic images using intentional camera movement. I had the golden-green landscape in mind, particularly a stand of birch or aspen with yellow leaves against the green of the cedars.
 
Below is one sample of what can be created with this technique. It has an abstract feeling, with sense of texture created from the light and movement of the individual leaves.

aspen shift

This image just might find it's way onto a canvas and ultimately one of our walls.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

DJE

Photo of the week 2014-10-06

It had been a few weeks since I was last out walking the trails with the other "Amigos". The three of us had agreed on the area around Dundas for a photo walk followed by a visit to one of the locations on the studio tour taking place there this past weekend. 

We set out in hope of fall colour and cooperative light and although the colours are not yet quite at their peak in this area, we found enough of interest to photograph. Oddly enough, on this outing the image that I worked hardest to capture was in B&W, made at a section of trail that descends to a bridge over Logies Creek and the Tews Falls lookout. Thick dark branches from several grand old maple trees overhang a rail fence and the trail at this point.

Turning a corner coming off a side trail, the scene came immediately into view, urging for a B&W rendition. I raised one camera and adjusted it for a B&W capture, then fired off a couple of frames. When I reviewed the images, they were severely overexposed yet gave an appealing effect. I checked the settings and found exposure compensation at +2 1/3 stops (walking with two cameras slung over my shoulders, sometimes the settings get been altered as I handle them to protect them or the controls bump and bang into my body). Generally liking the effect, I dialed back to +2 and continued to shoot the scene, eventually moving down the trail a bit to shoot backup and under the dark branches.

serendipity

The title of the image will serve to remind how it was it came about.
 
DJE