Photo of the Week 2025-10-13

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! 

 

I spent some time with family over the weekend, in the wonderful setting at Revolves Farms, where autumn has made colourful scenes ...

 

' fall colour outside a window '

The "timber-frame" is a great place to sit and watch morning arrive at Revolve Farms. With sun rising above the eastern treeline, it spills onto treetops outside the window of a favourite seat. Sipping morning coffee and getting the day started with this view is something special.   

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2022-11-28

 

Fall colours have all but left 'the Bruce' now that leaves are mostly down ...

 

' lingering yellow '

 

... but oh what a wonderful smell those poplar leaves make when they lay think and wet carpeting the ground. Different than the smell of spruce so familiar on so many walks through and near the forests at the cottage, the smell of wet poplar leaves signal the end of fall. Musty and pungent they are my kind of aroma therapy.

' nature's doubloons '

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 2020-12-14

 

frosted tapestry

 Sometimes it just takes frosted highlights to make one notice the beauty

of nature's complex roadside tapestry

 

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2020-10-12

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

 

Well it's already Thanksgiving, with the fall colours that began to arrive in late September now on full display. I've been finishing renovations at the cottage, catching up with social media posts from my backlog of images during the downtime up there. There wasn't much from autumn to post until now ...

 

fall farm fencepost

Not entirely without some photography time before September was gone, I did manage to get out for a drive on the local backroads around Puslinch one morning to capture my first images of fall 2020. A few more can be seen in my recent social media posts ( Facebook , Flickr , Instagram ).

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2019-10-14

Capturing the feel, the true feel of a forest scene is challenging ... an understatement to say the least. 

Once their eye detects "something", that "something" that eludes description, a photographer must decide where to direct the lens and from which vantage point. They must choose whether to "go wide" and pull in an expanse of the scene before them, to "zoom in" and pick out specific details, or something in between. They must decide what, out of a myriad of possible elements to include, what to exclude, what elements work together to build that "feel". 

And, the photographer must make choices that are more technical, focal length aperture, shutter speed, ISO, exposure that align with their vision for the image.

fall forest shadows

Getting all aspects to come together, in harmony that moves a viewer to "feel" what the photographer feels is the ultimate goal. Success is elusive, seldom achieved, ever enticing ... for me anyway.

I will continue, undaunted, as time spent in the forest is something special in itself.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2014-10-20

Early Sunday afternoon I took some time for a reflective walkabout on my way home from visiting with my mother. I've written about Scotsdale Farm before (see blog post 2012-03-12), but it had been a while since I last visited and this time I was doing a bit of reconnaissance for an upcoming photo session.

The weather had been overcast since leaving the house just after sunrise, but as I began my walk around the grounds, the sun started to push through breaking cloud cover and made the fall leaves glow. I wandered for a while, slipping back and forth between personal introspection and artistic reflection. The time passed quickly and while there and I had the good fortune of meeting Richard from the recently established Friends of Scotsdale Farm, who interrupted his chores to indulge me in a short chat. 

Scotsdale Fall Trail

This week's image was made along the main trail leading away from the barn and pond. It's a great place for a walk to clear your mind, in fall or any other season ...

DJE

Photo of the Week 2013-06-03

Where to go and what to do ...

Spring weather has been unsettled to say the least, and plans for the weekend were dependent on a forecast that kept changing and as experience has taught, is unreliable. With an 80% chance of rain staring us in the face, Lynn and I made the call on Friday to cancel a Saturday outing to the Bruce Peninsula.

My fall back photo outing plan was to join friends Alan and Patrick on a trek to show Patrick  one of the local trails he had not seen. That plan too was slightly altered when morning brought traces of lingering mist and turned our photo thoughts to moody river scenes ... but again plans changed as the mist quickly disappeared and we settled in to battle the mosquitoes along the Eramosa River section or the Royal Recreation Trail.

We walked, no, strolled along the riverside trails, off the main path. Time passed unnoticed amongst conversation of yes photography, but also life, family and nature. Along the trail we encountered a toad, wild garlic mustard, Tamarack, Manitoba Maple, Giant Hogweed and geese with their goslings.

Of course there was the light ... photography is all about the light. It's always about the light. When the light is right, it stops a photographer in their tracks and commands them to take notice. It distracts and dominates. It speaks, it whispers it shouts, until it has their attention.

leafen glow

The glow on the fresh green leaves (that reminded Patrick of basil) reached out and grabbed me as I passed. It drew me in, literally into the area off the trail to catch the satin like texture of the glowing leaves ... and into a swam of mosquitoes (thank-you Deet).

DJE