Photo of the Week 2022-10-31

 

The Elevated Park is one of a kind, a novel concept, an iconic railway bridge converted into a park. Just the idea intrigued me, and so did some of the photos I'd seen in an online article. So what did I do? I made note of the spot, and when I had occasion to be in St. Thomas, ON a couple of weeks back I paid a visit not really knowing what I might be able to photograph.

As it turned out, access was restricted (boo) where there was a significant amount of construction taking place on the municipal roads running under the bridge. The park itself was open, offering nice views of the Kettle Creek Valley in fall colours.

I walked the length of the bridge, stopping frequently to take in the view. At one spot, a single tree on the valley slope caught my eye. With a white trunk against the yellow, orange and green it stood out, as if posing for me ...

 

' Sycamore Posing 2.0 '

Note: the main image is titled 2.0 because it's a slightly cropped version of the original as it was composed in camera.

Following are a few additional shots documenting my visit to "a park in the sky, some 95 feet over the Kettle Creek valley.

 

 

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2022-10-24

 

I thought it was time to take my followers on a tour of local fall colours before the snow flies with a collection of images from the series ' Puslinch Autumn Roads ' ...

 

' Puslinch Autumn Roads II '

' Puslinch Autumn Roads III '

' Puslinch Autumn Roads IV '

' Puslinch Autumn Roads V '

' Puslinch Autumn Roads VI '

 

Fall wouldn't be the same if I didn't make my annual drive to capture the colours of autumn along the back-roads of Puslinch TWP ... and these were found just a few minutes away from home on Pioneer Trail.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-10-17

I've been out shooting since New Brunswick last month, quite a bit actually. But my fall colour and other captures from closer to home will sit for a while longer while I publish the remainder of the images from "out east".

One morning, I spent some time exploring around and under the Salmon River Train Trestle in New Denmark. Billed as "one of Canada's largest train bridges", it's quite an interesting subject, particularly with the fall colours popping.

' Autumn Trestle IV '

' Autumn Trestle III '

' Autumn Trestle II '

' "A" look up '

' overhead '

 

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-10-10

Someone I recently ran into said "I thought you were still in New Brunswick"and I had to laugh. They had assumed that because I was still posting images from that area, I had not returned home. In some ways they may be correct, memories of that recent trip, any trip or outing for that matter, occupy my mind for some time ...

The namesake of Grand Falls NB was the subject for photos on the morning of my 4th day in the area. Though I had seen the falls during a brief stop the first day and as we passed by on various outings, this was the first time I had gone with the specific purpose of exploring the trails, viewing platforms and vantage points near the falls and downstream gorge. Following is a selection of images I made during that time.

This spot is on my list of places to revisit for further exploration ...

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-10-03

 

A thirteenth year of this blog begins ...

 

Just last week this photographic journey had me near Grand Falls, NB with my full Canon EOS M Series travel kit, no computer, access to the internet only through my phone when I was out and about closer to or in town.

 

That proved a challenge for me to keep the recent flow of postings to my social media accounts. Sure I had my phone camera, but my tool of choice for photography is a digital camera and when it comes to that I have various options in my arsenal. The EOS M3 and M5 I had allowed me to transfer images from the camera to my phone via Wi-Fi for some processing before posting when I had cellular service.

 

What I learned is that I need to update my phone if I intend to do this very often. Why? First, my aging eyes need the benefit of a larger screen than my current phone has, but I'll still want a phone sized phone not a pocket stretching tablet sized monster. Second, while I had very spotty service in some locations, my companion, with a newer phone, always seemed to have 2 bars better signal strength than I did :-(

What I confirmed is, that while a processed image may look OK on the phone, the JPEG transferred from the camera is, as expected, limited to some minimal processing and my efforts using the original RAW files once I returned home are much more acceptable and to my liking. Here are those revised versions ...

' view through a cabin door '

' Early Autumn on the Salmon River '

' Grand Gorge '

' Autumn Trestle '

' cabin on the hill '

 

DJE