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[RDB]

When did you take all of these wonderful fall color pictures?

DW and I will be in Pennsylvania 10-10-09 for a friend's wedding. We have decided that we will be making a road trip across US into New England and down through Florida. Your info will help us to decide when to start our drive etc.

Let me know when. I'll try to intercept you at Richmond, for a Virginia Hello.
Send a PM or email.

Robert

 

[RDB]

Michigan Trip - 2009

Mystery Lake , Leelanau Peninsula
Family wishes to keep it that way.

Caroll and Robert at Mystery Lake

 

[HatTrick]

Easily one of the best photos of Portland Head Light I've ever seen, Kristin. Simply stunning.

Roger

 

[dougp26364]

Villefranche France

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Hoarfrost

A weed next to a brown corn field, taken early on a cold and foggy fall morning after a touch of hoarfrost had formed overnight.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Ghost Drivers on the Side

I was driving on Douglas County (MN) Road 3 one morning when I saw this whimsy on the side of the road. Of course I had to get a photo. The vultures posed on the roof are a great touch.

I took the hoarfrost photo, in the post immediately before this one, as I was heading back to my car after taking this shot. The two pictures are taken within 30 yards of each other.

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I never would have taken the hoarfrost photo had I not stopped to get this shot. Just as I got to the car I looked over and saw that weed standing higher than the rest, with the brown corn stalks and gray sky behind it. I thought it might make a good shot, so I took three shots. I thought they came out better than I had dared hoped.

There are great photos around us all of the time; good photos are often just a case of seeing what is right in front our our noses.

 

[SueDonJ]

I think we're losing the best of our fall foliage today with all the wind and rain out there, but this how it looked yesterday afternoon when the raindrops let up enough to run out quick with the camera. It's been grey for the most part for the last week and a half - too bad, because I wanted some sunny foliage shots ...

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Getting Ready for Christmas

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Thrice the Dundee Hills

Three versions of the same photo or the Dundee Hiills in Yamhill County, Oregon (in the wine country, just south of Portland). Which do you prefer??

1) Full color version:

2) Black and white conversion, using a yellow filter and a bit of sepia toning:

3) colorized infrared film conversion

 

[Karen G]

Which do you prefer??

I like the full color version.

 

[geoand]

I like the full color version.

Ditto Color wins out.

 

[Kay H]

Full color version gets my vote. Black and white doesn't do this scene any justice.

 

[SueDonJ]

Yep, color. Love all those different greens!

 

[MULTIZ321]

Another vote for the full color version.


Richard

 

[Passepartout]

Make it unanimous....Color

Jim Ricks

 

[John Cummings]

Definitely the full color shot.

 

[dougp26364]

 

[Timeshare Von]

VA Black Bear Cub - Skyline Drive

Taken 10/25/09

 

[geoand]

I would have taken the bear cub pic too. However, mine would not have been in focus because I would have been shaking with the thought "Where is the ever vigilant, ever protective momma bear?"

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I would have taken the bear cub pic too. However, mine would not have been in focus because I would have been shaking with the thought "Where is the ever vigilant, ever protective momma bear?"

Just remember that you don't need to be able to run faster than the momma bear. You just need to be able to run faster than at least one other person near you.

 

[Timeshare Von]

Actually I wish that photo (and the others) were tighter and in greater focus, but I'm generally pretty happy given that the Park Ranger wasn't really happy with the traffic jam photographers were creating on the road. She was nice however and told me to snap a couple and move on.

As for running, that is the last thing you should do with any bear . . . but I understand the concept

 

[Timeshare Von]

Sun Setting on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Taken 10/24/09 near Lynchburg, VA

 

[Timeshare Von]

I like the full color version.

Me too (not sure what happened to my original response).

Von

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Fall Sunrise in Western Minnesota

These pics were taken a couple of weeks ago, a few miles north of Osakis, Minnesota. There's about 60 minutes of elapsed time between the first photo and the last.

There was ground fog that morning. In this first photo the fog had lifted about 20 or 30 feet off of the ground. The sun is still below the horizon but it's close enough to sunrise to light the eastern sky behind the fog bank, creating this eerie shot with wisps of cloud.

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This second photo was taken about half a mile further down the road. The sun is just a bit higher and the fog layer isn't quite as thick here, so the overall picture is a bit brighter. The red of the sunrise filters through the fog clouds, and gets picked up in the leaves of the trees and in the fields.

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These next two shots were taken looking to the west, with the sun to my back. Now the fog has lifted a bit higher yet (and is starting to break up), while the sun is low enough so that it shines below the overhead fog. About 20 minutes later the sun rose high enough so that it no longer shown below the cloud layer, and everything went back into shadow. (When the sun went back behind the fog is when I took one of the photos that I posted upthread.)

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It's hard for me to say which of these is my favorite. If forced to choose I think I would pick the first one.

 

[Karen G]

Steve, are you not gettng enough fog in Bellevue that you have to go all the way to Minnesota to see it? Just kidding--beautiful pictures, as usual.