Autumn

[mickeyobe]

Here are some pictures taken yesterday with the Pentax K100D.
Some of the autumn colours are so vivid that they seem unreal.













Mickey

[Just Plain Curt]

Very nice Mickey. Wish we had more reds around here, mostly poplars and birch so plenty of yellow but not a lot of maples. Fall is the best time of year for me, colourful, no bugs and nice and cool not sweaty and unbearably humid.

[John Parry]

Beautiful Mickey. You're bringing the best out of that Pentax!

Regards - John

[GeneW]

Very nice work Mickey. You might want to turn down the saturation control a little if you want somewhat more natural colour. Or leave it like this and call it the Velvia look

Gene

[mickeyobe]

Curt,
Your avatar with the statue of Terry Fox leads me to believe you are near Thunder Bay.
I drove the north shore of Lake Superior last year at this time. Now I know why The Group of Seven painted it so often. Its powerful beauty doesn't need red as their and your pictures have proven. And you are right there. You could always resort to the old trick of including a red canoe in your pictures.
I also like the fall and the spring and the winter but I detest the summer with its sticky heat and mosquitos and black flies. And I would much rather flood a skating rink than water the lawn.

John,
I still have a lot of learning to enable me to get the best from the D100K. Its automation makes it much more complicated than my old Speed Graphic.

Gene,
It's the VELVIA look.
The only picture that had its original colours altered was No. 5. It was taken shortly after sunrise. It was a little foggy and it was badly under exposed. I tried to get the maple as natural as possible. I rather like the unnatural blue road. But then I was never accused of having good taste.
The first three photos were taken with the sun shining through the leaves, back lit, which gives them that lovely. stained glass, but true, glow.
The colours in the fourth picture are true to life. Indeed, they caused a traffic jam Saturday and yesterday because so many motorists stopped to photograph them. They are and might still be on Pomona Mills Dr. which runs N. off John St. between Bayview and Yonge in Thornhill.
As for the weeping willows. They are so elegant and remind me of the Spanish moss draping the trees in the southern USA.

Thank you, folks.
Brace yourselves. There may be more coming as I spent a good part of Sunday roaming the Caledon Hills northwest of Toronto with my D100K and an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic with its orange radioactive lens. I'm all aglow.

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it today and to those yet to celebrate it.

Mickey