Photo of the Week 2025-09-15

Cameras go with me most places, and yes even on a golf trip to New Brunswick. An earlier trip offered more fall colour and I took time for more photography, visiting Grand Falls, and checking out other locations. This trip, nursing a back issue that had the potential to have me on the sidelines watching my golf buddies, I focused on a rehab regimen and shot very few images ...

 

' NB Camp Morning '

 ... and most of those were around the 'camp' (cottage to us back in Ontario) while I was shuffling about early in the mornings trying to get loose . One morning, after coffee I went for a stroll outside and noticed the sun streaming through an opening in the trees to warm the trunk of a tree. There was steam coming off the tree so I grabbed a camera and worked a composition to capture the scene.

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2025-09-08

 

Friends suggested a walk out to the Lake Huron shoreline at Alvar Bay Nature Reserve.
I'd been there before in both winter and summer but was interested to return.

 

Difficult to assess scale in this image, the roots of this tree were nearly as tall as me at 6' and show hoe shallow these root systems are for trees lining on the alvar, with little if any soil above the limestone rock surface.

 

' uprooted '

I tried to work a composition to show the entire root system. It was difficult given the surrounding vegetation I had to get in front of yet stay far enough back with the 24mm prime lens I had at the time. 

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2025-09-01

 

Driving north solo recently, I used the opportunity to visit and photograph at a series of historical mill sites in Grey and Bruce Counties. It was a very productive outing photographically, resulting in more than two dozen images I later processed and have or will publish for my ongoing 'Mills of Ontario' project.. 

 

' Arranvale Dam Remains '

As spirit moves me, I research and map potential photo locations for outings such as this using Google Maps. I create 'lists' for different geographic locations and themes. My spirit is stirred when I'm told about a location, see one through others work, or otherwise hear of one, then I note it down or map it at the time.

 

I find Google Maps particularly useful for this because it's always available on my phone providing there is signal and I can use it as a navigational aide for driving. It's been my 'go to' for trips abroad as well as here at home.

 

DJE