Photo of the Week 2026-09-14

 

Away on an annual golf trip to Grand Falls, New Brunswick I hadn't intended much in the way of photography. Though I had a capable small 'point 'n shoot' camera with me, I mostly used my phone for snaps on the courses we played.

 

One morning, while the others slept in, I was having coffee on the deck looking out to the river. The humming birds were humming at the feeder near my left shoulder, Blue Jays and Crows were beginning to make themselves known as the sun continued to rise. I looked to the opening in the trees along the Salmon River and made my way off the deck to catch this lovely little scene.

 

' down by the river '

' down by the river II '

I find it interesting to see the effect of focal length in these images. Both were shot from exactly the same location. I no more than shuffled my feet as I switched from 'normal' to 'wide' view on the phone.

 

In the first, normal, the branch of early autumn red leaves and the river take on prominent subject roles whereas in the second, wide' I find that it's the sunburst, shadow and light that grab my attention with the red leaves and river relegated to supporting roles.

 

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 2022-10-03

 

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