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I enjoy all of the seasons but fall is my favourite time of year for hikes and photography outdoors. After a spring and summer of fresh lush greens, there is a slow warming of colour while the greens take on a yellow hue. As temperatures drop the pace quickens, the colours rush through variations of gold, orange and red. Having only weekends with time available for photography, the change seems to happen so fast that I'm only able to capture a fraction of it through my lens.
This past weekend I went out for a drive in search of colour. Overcast skies, flat light and spits of rain here and there were not the inspiration that I had hoped for. Looking for something a bit different, I ended up in the quaint town of Elora. It's always an interesting place to photograph and this time of year I expected that there might be some colour splashed about to make for some interesting images. While I didn't find the vibrant colours in many of the areas I chose to explore, a shaft of sunlight fell on a patch of red down one alley as I walked by, and of course I had to go check it out.
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| Fall Creeper on Wall |
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| Red Creeper |
Soon, as fall matures and gives way to winter, this red and other warm colours will be gone. Winter will arrive with it's cool palette of tones.
DJE
My photo outing this weekend was a simple walkabout Saturday morning in downtown Guelph, before the rain drove us indoors at OX Cafe, for croissant and latté. After several weekends of shooting landscapes and nature, it was quite a departure to shoot in an urban setting, particularly under grey heavy skies.
Most of the
shooting time was concentrated in a single block around the SE corner of
Quebec and Norfolk apart from wandering across the street now and then. I had planned to look for details in and around the side streets and lane ways for a possible project on "back alley art" but I was finding none of the usual graffiti of interest. It was a splash of colour on a wall that caught my eye as the rain began ... signs of summer ending and fall soon to arrive.
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| courtyard creeper |
I may not have a post for the next two weeks. My wife and I are off to Italy to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary and I know I won't be writing blog posts from there. I have not missed a week since beginning this blog almost 4 years ago so I hope I am able to set up a couple to automatically publish while I'm away.
DJE
