A few maple trees in and around Guelph Ontario have started to turn colour but several others still remain stubbornly green.

Affectionally (and perhaps, not so affectionally) called "The Brick" because of its shape, and weight. When I saw it, I thought it looked kind of Steam Punkish, and I snatched it up right away. It's heavy enough to weigh a body down in a lake, IYKWIM. lol I believe that this is the Argus C3, which began to be manufactured in 1939, in Ann Arbor Michigan. More info can be found here. camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Argus_C3

Thompson Canyon above Spences Bridge, BC - 4 October 2015 [© WCK-JST]

Ontario's fall 2018

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Shot at Riverside Park in Guelph, Ont

© 2011 James Duckworth

The rocks in the background are part of the Lizard Range in Fernie.

Looking toward Killarney Lake with OSA Lake in distance.

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Darkness and light at the Brick Works

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For the briefest of moments the sky was on fire as the sun rose and kissed the clouds.

While out in the light rain the other day, I walked a short stretch of the Bruce Trail on the Niagara Escarpment East of Grimsby, Ontario. Along the side of the road near the access to the Bruce Trail, a group of shrubs had lost all their leaves, and only the small red berries with their black tips remained. The berries had raindrops clinging to them providing a nice contrast. By using a largish f-stop I was able to blur the background but still retain a repeating pattern of berry groups receding off to the right as well as the repeating vertical branches. And, Red Rule applies. - JW

Date Taken: 2020-10-19

Tech Details:

Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a vintage AF Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4.0-5.6 lense set to 170mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Aperture Priority mode, f/6.3, 1/20 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 8000px wide, darken image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV-0.17, slightly increase contrast and Chromaticity L-A-B mode, boost black level to darken the background, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlights in the berries, set colour temperature to5041K by adjusting the tint slightly to magenta, slightly boost Vibrance, apply a small amount of noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: sharpen, save, scale to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.

Sandbanks Provincial Park.

The reds have all gone, but the golden leaves still remain on these huge trees. The sunlight was simply too good to pass by without raising my camera... I was happy with the result.

Fall colours in Forks of the Credit park

Reflection of maple trees on top of my car when frost is melting.

. . . BETTER on black . . . Via Fluidr . . . (then click on image to view details LARGE) . . . bigger is definitely better

. . . thanx to boccacino for this great texture . . . www.flickr.com/photos/boccacino/4136151524/

Central Park - NYC

Halton Hills, On