Photo of the Week 2021-01-25

 

Following last weeks post I continued with the review and editing of my images from the outing with my son Jordan where we explored above and below Jones Falls just outside of Owen Sound ON. There were a few sets of captures made as I detailed last week, high frame rate, same composition, for combination in post-processing.

 

That meant there were many similar frames, which I tend to rush through without giving much consideration while performing my initial review. Later, trying to clean up those images in the library, I began stacking images from the individual bursts and what do you know, I found a composition that I liked at least as much as the one I posted last week. Not only that, but when I was processing it, I decided that I didn't like the vignette I had used on the previous image and went with my standard small white border ... which I then applied to a version of the previous image as well.

 

Here they are ...

Jones From Below II

 

 

 

Jones From Below rev 1.1

DJE

 

Photo of the Week 2021-01-18

 

Having someone along who enjoys exploring as much as I do helped me get this week's shot. My son Jordan loves exploring outdoors and wanted to see some waterfalls on our recent trek to the cottage, so we made a stop at Jones Falls.

 

Jones From Below

Jordan was rather eager to try and get below the falls. I knew from previous visits that there was a way to descend into the gorge and signs led to a point that looked a bit sketchy covered with ice and snow. Exploring a bit further, we found a much easier option and without ice cleats and winter hikers, were able to get down to river level.

 

Getting an image from this vantage point had been on my list for some time. Although conditions weren't perfect for photography, I'll take what I got  and consider it a decent first attempt.

 

Notes: I did not bring a tripod with me on what was expected to be just a quick, short trek. As I do with HDR captures in cases like this, using the highest frame rate of the camera, 4fps for the EOS M3, I made a number of hand held exposures then imported some as layers in Photoshop, auto aligned the layers, stacked them as a smart object and set the blend mode to mean for a flowing water effect. The result was processed as I normally would with plugins (i.e.Topaz, Anthropics, or ON1)

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2021-01-11

 

After heavy overcast skies on my last trip north, the sun came out for my hike to the shore of Lake Huron on the Hobson Trail. Jordan and I met a couple returning on the trail and had an enjoyable, socially distanced chat before continuing on our way.

 

As we broke out of the woods from the trail and onto the shore, the sun was blazing it's halo and a single sun dog over the Lake Huron horizon.

 

Halo

Upon seeing this, there were two choices that occurred to me, pull up a seat, sit and bask in the warm glow or extend our hike along the shore toward Baptist Island. We chose the later and had a wonderful time before returning to the car. I intend to return ...

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2021-01-04

 

 

rays of hope

 

 

 

We had decided to continue our tradition of closing out the year up at the cottage hoping for a 'winter wonderland'. Although there had been snow forecast, it never reached as far north as us. Other than a light dusting one night, what snow there was had been disappearing, melting with temperatures hovering from a few degrees above to a few degrees below freezing.

 

Wearily, it was also several days of grey heavy skies to close out 2020 with not much to inspire my photography. The gloom was beginning to look like it would continue into 2021 ... until late one afternoon a touch of colour appeared on the horizon along with some rays of hope, for sunshine, for brighter days, for a better year ahead.

 

DJE

Happy New Year 2021 !

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

 

2021 begins and for the 13th year the challenge of capturing an image at sunrise on the first day of the year is met.

On this day, no sunrise would make an appearance, the only light of note was the warm, welcoming light of the open cottage door ...

 

First Light 2021

I look forward to welcoming friends new and old over this threshold in the near future ... 

 

Stay Safe, Keep Well.

DJE