Photo of the Week 2023-10-23

 

From the series ' 2023 Bruce Autumn Roads ' featuring favourite roads near our cottage in their fall colours.

 

' 2023 Bruce Autumn Road - XVIII '

Hoping I had not missed peak colour, I made the drive along a favourite, soon to be (seasonally) closed, road near our cottage. Catching autumn foliage at optimum colour and in optimum light is all about timing, part yours and part mother nature's.

 

On this outing, I felt that my timing was slightly off getting the most colourful display and the lighting, though it began with some spotty strong sunlight, ended up being a fair bit more flat than I would have preferred.

That said, a group of three maples I knew of did not disappoint. They were a lovely hue of rich orange when they came into view. The rest of the nearly 10km trek in and out was lovely too, just not as vibrant as the spot captured in the image above.

Last week I wrote about my process of capturing sunset and highlighted that there can be a lot more that simply snapping off a single shot. That was the case for this outing as well. Between the two roads I travelled, I clicked the shutter nearly 80 times. At each spot I pulled the truck over to the roadside, parked with the 4-way flashers on, checked for other vehicles approaching, got out and walked to frame my composition and returned to the vehicle.

Not all of the images I made passed the initial edit. But a lot did and I processed over 2 dozen which are being posted to my online flickr gallery which you can see via the link in the opening line of this post.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-11-14

 

Leaves may have mostly turned and fallen to the ground, but I still have plenty of fall colour images from 2022 in the library and waiting to be shared.  Knowing that late fall and winter bring a time of tones, I'll linger a while longer on images from what was a wonderful fall for photography.

' Autumn Wetland Pano '

' Autumn Wetland Section 1 '

' Autumn Wetland Section 2 '

' Autumn Wetland Section 3 '

I marvel at the variety of colours in autumn roadside scenes - these from somewhere along a Puslinch backroad.

 

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-11-07

 

October has come and gone. With it, the vibrant colours of Fall in Southern Ontario have faded, all but gone for another year. Yet they live on, in my memory and images ...

 

Inspired by my recent ' Puslinch Autumn Roads ' series, I took a drive along another favoured backroad, this one on the Bruce Peninsula. Although I missed peak colour by perhaps a week, conditions were overcast and wet from an early morning rain, just right for a bit of fall atmosphere.

 

    

Fall colour on 'the Bruce' is mostly shades of green, vibrant yellows and golds. Jack Pine, cedars, spruce, birch and poplar now dominate it's forests.

    

If you get off the main highway and County roads, you can find areas where the underbrush stirs with reds and oranges dabbing colour into the scene.

    

For those willing to go still a bit further, there are hardwoods, maple and oak to be found in full celebration before their seasonal respite.

The scene above, still beautiful nearing saturation fatigue, must have been chromatic overload just a days earlier.

A new series is developed. Follow along on Facebook, Instagram and Flickr for more as I take you along ' A Bruce Autumn Road '

 

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 2022-10-03

 

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