Photo of the Week 2015-09-28

While vacationing at the cottage last week, we said farewell to Summer 2015 and welcomed Autumn initially with summer like weather but I'm sure that will change quickly. It was a great week weather-wise to be off and enjoying the Bruce.

Rich read and orange fall colour is never widespread on the Bruce with relatively few maple and oak compared to other areas of the province. There was however a discernible golden hue to the forests as the birch, aspen and poplar start to don their fall colours. Here and there the odd maple was showing some measure of colour, but I was hard pressed to find anything suitable to photograph in vibrant red.

While driving up last weekend, I noticed several spots along the highway where the limestone of the escarpment was exposed and thought of an idea for an image. Then on Saturday on the way to Lion's Head for a visit the market, I noticed this little maple perched up on the rock, struggling to be seen amongst the green.

 

... funny how on the drive home Sunday afternoon, I saw more trees in colour than Saturday when I was actively looking, more than the whole prior week for that matter. Maybe I was looking too hard or maybe leaves are just changing that quickly.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-09-21

This week's post features the work of photographer, artist and friend Connie D.

Just about a month ago I received an email from a friend asking if she could use one of my images. Connie is not only wonderfully creative with her camera, she also paints and creates beautiful fibre based works of art. I was flattered that she wanted to create one her fibre pieces based on the image and told her to go right ahead. Since then I've been eager to see her rendition and she was kind enough to send me this photo of the completed work (with permission to use it in this blog post).

I think she's done an absolutely wonderful job capturing the essence of the original scene and conveying texture through her selection of materials. You can see more of Connie's fibre art work here.

Below is my original image for reference.

It's an exciting experience to see another artist's interpretation of your work in a completely different  medium ... all part of my Photographic Journey.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-09-14

I've spent a lot of time in reflection over the past few months and photography has played an important role through that time ... in some ways, it has also taken a back seat.

As I have worked through the loss of my mother and the legal and financial matters of her estate, photography has provided much needed distraction, though the work I have been generating is mostly from just going through the motions. I've found it difficult to find recent images that I want to present in this blog.

While I sat and contemplated this on the deck at the cottage recently, I felt that someone was watching me, encouraging me to "get back enjoying it", and then I looked up ...

 ... and saw inspiration in the clouds. What do you see?

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-09-07

Again, I find an image while browsing through my library looking for something else ...

field of dreams

I made this image about a year ago, during a morning drive along back roads on the  Bruce Peninsula. Two blue chairs in the middle of the field caught my eye as a passed by. I smiled to myself, wondering who would occupy them. I stopped and backed up to get a decent point of view, then used a telephoto zoom to get tight framing and compressed perspective.

Then after downloading to my library catalogue the image just sat on my hard drive waiting to be rediscovered.

DJE