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A horse of light. This was a completely unintentional horse head. The light paint squiggle was intentional. Sometimes happy accidents happen.
The right place in the right moment... watching this float plane take off in the early morning light.
This little rocky island in the North Channel of Lake Opeongo was our jumping off spot... water taxi dropped our canoes off (on a rocky slope) and we paddled up Hailstorm Creek...a wonderful wetland bog.
Things quiet down pretty fast at day's end in Algonquin Park. The stillness is wonderful with only a few bird calls to break the silence. The blackflies, however, are another story. They are nefarious and persistent little devils - flying up your nose, into your ears, and crawling under your clothing - all to slice into your skin, using their saliva to make it bleed nicely, and gorging themselves full at your expense. Small wonder it's so quiet in the evening. It's best to take someone along that's willing to act as bait while you get your shot. ;)
With early morning sunlight streaming over the treetops into the shadows below, the smaller dew soaked trees lit up in a spectacular morning glow.
There was a power outage over the weekend at Algonquin Park's Lake Opeongo outfitter station. Consequently, not many people were around at sunset - only the sounds of a generator and a few kids laughing at each other's dockside fishing antics. Eventually the generator fell silent and the kids left - leaving us the last ones out. A solitary loon called out but there was no answer.
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Nikon D810 with lens Zeiss Distagon 28mm f/2 ZF.2 . HDR created from 3 hand held bracketed exposures at ISO 200, f/8.
This photo was taken just after sunrise.
"What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature." - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The mist and frost on the fenceposts caught my eye... the signs I had to include, like it or not. This is the boat launch on Lake Opeongo in algonquin park... all ready for a long winter's sleep.
Happy Fence Friday!
a peaceful still scene, enjoyed by this figure in solitude.... it is not often Lake Opeongo looks like this!
From experienced trekkers to casual trippers, foreign visitors to new immigrants, everyone has to try a canoe in Algonquin Park. Its part of the experience. But not today - it was just too wet.
Excited to be heading up to my happy place again tomorrow... Algonquin Park.
This was our last trip up... changing skies over Lake Opeongo
Opeongo Lake, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, September 1991.
Part of New Scans of Old Prints.
Click here to see where this photo was taken. By courtesy of BeeLoop SL
On Assignment for Canadian Geographic. Portage in Algonquin Provincial Park along Hwy. 60. (Photo: Megan Lorenz/Canadian Geographic)
LARGE View On Black
Grasses by the edge of Lake Opeongo in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
Right in the river along Opeongo Road in Algonquin Park sits this great big rock more or less by itself. A good friend calls this her "favorite rock" and has photographed it many times. Consequently, we've taken to calling it "Maureen's Rock."
The road to Opeongo Lake in Algonquin Park is bordered by these wonderful pines. On Boxing Day, dusted as they were by a fresh snowfall, I half expected to see Santa Clause around the corner. Sure enough, there was a fellow in a red coat. You can see him in an earlier post here: flic.kr/p/iCTrWR
Spring had sprung in Algonquin Park - or at least it did in April of 2011 - and if you looked closely between the bushes, you could spot a very rare "Rubeus Artificem."
One of two juvenile loons snuggles up to it's mother. Not as cute as younger loon chicks but you can see this young bird going through it first moulting. The baby down is fast disappearing and you can see the underlying feathers that will soon allow this bird to begin its fall migration.
This full frame photograph was taken at Algonquin Park's Lake Opeongo on a heavily overcaste day.