Photo of the Week 2018-04-30

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
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No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
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No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
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"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life."

                                                                                                                     -  John Muir  -   

  

between the pines

Morning walks in the forest, no better way to begin the day ... after coffee of course. Yes, first coffee, then a walk in the forest ...

There are times when the it's the forest floor, other times it's the forest canopy and others when it's yet another aspect of the forest. Always, the forest is somewhere to point the lens. Capturing it's mood is nearly always a challenge ... presented here with a little help from artistic filters and textures in post processing.  

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-11-30

This past weekend, and friend and I decided to revisit a local trial and I pre-visualized an image capturing the regimented pines planted along one particular section. I intended to capture the scene with an ultra-wide angle lens (14mm) to accentuate the lines and pattern of the planting, but when we came to this spot, it was the colouring of the forest floor and the solitary rock that caught me eye.

With morning light coming from the side, the rock just seemed to glow among the line of tree trunks and mess of branches. So I abandoned the 5DIII with the 14mm Rokinon attached and pulled out the 7DII with the Sigma 18-300, knelt down under the branches of the closest tree and set up for the shot.

solitary rock

Sometimes I start out with a particular type of image in mind and end up with something completely different, sometimes I have nothing in mind for a n image and just capture what is there. I did get some interesting images with the ultra-wide but this is my favourite from the outing, so I'm glad I had a second camera and lens along.

... here is an image like the one I had previsualized. I like it too.

fallen comrade

DJE

Photo of the Week 2014-03-31

Spring, warmer temperatures, new trails and a friend to lead the way ... 

I was feeling bad that I hadn't seen Grant in several months as schedules always seemed to conspire against it, but he felt up for a walk on the trails behind his place in Freelton and a group of us made plans for Saturday morning.

The usual suspects, Alan and Patrick had to drop out, each for separate health issues (speedy recovery guys) and the weather forecast was less than inspiring. Still there was no way I was going to cancel with schedules finally in sync. If weather brought rain with only a 30% chance (so they said), we would still meet up and go for breakfast and some conversation to catch up.

Fortunately the rain held off but warmer temperatures accompanying the arrival of spring had softened the ice on the creek we had planned to wander making it unwise to walk the frozen surface as it meandered along. Instead we chose to take a trail that roughly followed the same course. We walked and talked, stopped and listened, and talked some more as we made our way along a path familiar to Grant but new to me. Time melted away as we spent almost 3 hours exploring the trail through bush and across fields around the headwaters of Spencer Creek.

Passing by a forest of planted pine, we both stopped to make some images. What struck me, as it always does with similar forests, was the regimented pattern of tall slender trunks trailing off into the distance. These also had the chaos of slender branches radiating outward over their height. For an element of interest to the otherwise structured scene (lessons from the work of Patrick) I included a mid-ground pair of trees that had fallen forming an "X" pattern contrary to the strong repeating verticals.

some fall ...

I found that desaturating the image slightly in post provided the finishing touches for the effect I wanted.


DJE