Photo of the Week 2025-02-24

 

A recent presentation on B&W photography got me thinking that it's been a while since I processed or shot anything specifically for B&W. So with that in mind, I had a go at B&W 2 different ways ...

 

1. A reprocessed colour image from a recent post in B&W

 

' B&W maple morning '

 

2. A winter reshoot at the location of a recent post, shot for B&W processing

 

' winter maple morning '

I'm not sure that either work better than the original colour version, but it was an interesting exercise and another part of 'The Journey'

 

... the original ...

 

' golden maple morning '

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-10-19

Down with a cold that's kept me coughing, wheezing and sniffing since Friday, I couldn't muster the initiative to get out for anything this weekend let alone a hike, which would have been beautiful with the fall colours at their peak. Instead, I treated myself with meds, hot lemon water and as much rest as I could get in between coughing bouts. And during those times when I my head would clear from the cold and the meds, I clicked through my image library looking for something to use for this week's photo.

fall under a maple

A little over a week ago when fall colours were just beginning to arrive close to home, this image was made on my way out the driveway of an office I frequently work at. Some might possibly recognize the location without prompting but I doubt it. Why? Because as a photographer, I know first hand how photographers look at things differently. We see the colour, the depth, the quality of light and it's magical ability to transform scenes both familiar and not.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-10-12

Happy Thanksgiving !

Driving north on Friday, it was evident that some of the maples had decided it was time to show their stuff by Thanksgiving weekend. Fall colour had finally arrived on 'the Bruce' in some measure ... while having coffee in the pre-dawn silence early Saturday, I decided it was time for some morning exploration along roads of the North Bruce.

I have my favourite spots, they always reach out, seducing me with their beauty, trying their best to make me stop and visit. This time I would resist and push on to unfamiliar ground, leaving familiarity behind, searching for a new muse ...

golden blush

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-09-28

While vacationing at the cottage last week, we said farewell to Summer 2015 and welcomed Autumn initially with summer like weather but I'm sure that will change quickly. It was a great week weather-wise to be off and enjoying the Bruce.

Rich read and orange fall colour is never widespread on the Bruce with relatively few maple and oak compared to other areas of the province. There was however a discernible golden hue to the forests as the birch, aspen and poplar start to don their fall colours. Here and there the odd maple was showing some measure of colour, but I was hard pressed to find anything suitable to photograph in vibrant red.

While driving up last weekend, I noticed several spots along the highway where the limestone of the escarpment was exposed and thought of an idea for an image. Then on Saturday on the way to Lion's Head for a visit the market, I noticed this little maple perched up on the rock, struggling to be seen amongst the green.

 

... funny how on the drive home Sunday afternoon, I saw more trees in colour than Saturday when I was actively looking, more than the whole prior week for that matter. Maybe I was looking too hard or maybe leaves are just changing that quickly.

DJE

Photo of the week 2014-10-06

It had been a few weeks since I was last out walking the trails with the other "Amigos". The three of us had agreed on the area around Dundas for a photo walk followed by a visit to one of the locations on the studio tour taking place there this past weekend. 

We set out in hope of fall colour and cooperative light and although the colours are not yet quite at their peak in this area, we found enough of interest to photograph. Oddly enough, on this outing the image that I worked hardest to capture was in B&W, made at a section of trail that descends to a bridge over Logies Creek and the Tews Falls lookout. Thick dark branches from several grand old maple trees overhang a rail fence and the trail at this point.

Turning a corner coming off a side trail, the scene came immediately into view, urging for a B&W rendition. I raised one camera and adjusted it for a B&W capture, then fired off a couple of frames. When I reviewed the images, they were severely overexposed yet gave an appealing effect. I checked the settings and found exposure compensation at +2 1/3 stops (walking with two cameras slung over my shoulders, sometimes the settings get been altered as I handle them to protect them or the controls bump and bang into my body). Generally liking the effect, I dialed back to +2 and continued to shoot the scene, eventually moving down the trail a bit to shoot backup and under the dark branches.

serendipity

The title of the image will serve to remind how it was it came about.
 
DJE