"You are what your deep, driving desire is.

As your deep, driving desire is, so is your will.

As your will is, so is your deed.

As your deed is, so is your destiny."

- Upanishads

"When the will is ready the feet are light."

- Proverb

I acquired a Mamiya C33 TLR at an estate sale this week and had it out shooting some color film the next day. The Maple trees are really starting to display some color here in Northeast Kansas and I figured this would be a good opportunity to test the new camera. Here a picture of the historic Carnegie Library in Leavenworth Kansas with a beautiful Maple tree showing off in all its glory. The library is now a community center and still sees regular use. Image captured with my Mamiya C33 TLR on Fuji Pro 400 film. Developed with CineStill's C41 kit.

And distant trees, near upper Westview Avenue, Powell River, B.C.

Nikon D200

Tamron Adaptall-2 SP 500mm f/8

double exposure

no post production

Large On Black

While visiting Mount Vernon with the government shut down in October 2013, there was only one tree that was changing color.

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For Bokeh Wednesdays! All of those wonderful little Whirlybirds that were in my Maple Tree that is shown in this image (www.flickr.com/photos/kansasexplorer/17081716922/), are now stuck in my sidewalk cracks. I'm thinking they aren't so wonderful now.

I was struck by the quality of light on this maple tree in our backyard. It is so nice to finally see all the beautiful spring colors.

Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.

shuffling through my files today

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the light was pretty good that day

The photo was taken in Kawaguchiko-machi, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Lake Kawaguchi is one of the five lakes around Mt Fuji.

I liked this leaf because it seems to have a lot of the different fall colors.

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This magnificent maple tree in the northwest corner of our garden is almost 58 years old. Every time we have storms, I worry that it will be her "last stand." She provides shade and habitat for the wildlife of our neighborhood.

This Maple tree still has a few leaves left, I am not sure what kind of Maple it is but some of the leaves are HUGE!!!!

Adjacnet ot Plains Methodist Church, Haywood County, North Carolina.

and 9mm came with slightly cooler air

Collecting Maple Sap

(view large)

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

~ Anne Bradstreet ~

~ Albert Camus ~

... and lots of warm photos in the archives ... where would we be without them???!!!

and finally one that I have said a few times myself ....

"Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat."

~ Author Unknown ~

Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.

These beautiful maple leaves in Bright's Park Street were just on the turn as I was visiting, offering a beautiful and more subtle palette to the brilliant reds, golds and oranges found elsewhere in the township

Bright, a town in north-east Victoria, is situated in the Ovens Valley and is part of the Alpine Region of Victoria. 210 kilometres from Melbourne, Bright was one of the towns in the Ovens Valley where gold was discovered. Gold was found near the junction of Morses Creek and the Ovens River in the 1850s. Established in 1862 and named Bright, most likely after John Bright (1811 - 1889) an English publicist, reformer and parliamentarian the township thrived. With the Gold Rush in full swing, Bright soon had Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches, schools, three hotels, three quartz mills and two bank branches. As the yield of gold declined in the 1870s, so too did Bright’s population, yet by the 1880s, it became an alpine tourism town. The Bright Alpine club was formed in 1887 and a community library was started there in 1889. In the following year Bright was connected by railway to Myrtleford and Wangaratta, bringing with it much needed tourists from Melbourne. In 1910 a grand chalet was opened at Mount Buffalo and Bright ran a hire car service for visitors, who often stayed there overnight at a hotel or guesthouse. In 1919 a secondary school was opened in Bright. It also had a tourist progress association and local angling, bowling, racing, tennis and golf clubs amongst its many attractions. By the mid 1920s the people of Bright began planting exotic trees partly for landscape improvement and partly to lay the summer dust. The street tree plantings produced extraordinary autumn colours. By 1933, Bright was described as the “Tourism Capital of the Ovens Valley”. Bright’s train line continued until 1983 when it was finally discontinued and replaced with coaches. By that time, it was a well established tourism town with people flocking there all throughout the year for different reasons. Bright is a base for exploring the peaks of Mount Buffalo National Park and Alpine National Park as well as Mount Hotham, a popular ski resort. Bright is a starting point for the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail, a hiking and cycling path. Bright Museum, in the town’s former train station, documents rail and gold rush history. The region is also known for wineries and of course its amazing display of autumnal foliage.

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

I have tried to photography this tree many times, but was never happy with the result. Not sure if was the particular light at this time of the year or the bare trees all around, but his one worked out.

High overhead in our sunset red maple. It is filled with seeds that fly like helicopters in the wind. They will soon fill our gutters.

Rusty in the Maple tree in our backyard. He's not up very high and jumped down as soon as I snapped this.

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A beautiful twisted lace leaf maple tree captured as it begins to shed its autumn coat.

Testing new brushes I got while on vacation.

Legion's Stonehenge 140# coldpress paper - various watercolors

I thought a photo from Autumn would be a welcome change from all this heat. SOOC (c) JacquiT All Rights Reserved

ODC- A Sign Of ... Autumn

The colours are starting to show up more each day. The huge maple behind the barn is turning orange.

Shot from the driveway. The river level is up with snow melt, makes for a pretty sight in the bright sunlight.

This shows some backlit autumn leaves in St. Albans, Maine, located in the central Maine Highlands. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.

NOTE: All images are Copyrighted by Greg A. Hartford. No rights to use are given or implied to the viewer. All rights of ownership and use remain with the copyright owner.

At Lenape lane. Peak Fall colors.

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Here are only a few of the many dictionary definitions for the word ‘reflex’:

Reflex - Noun

1. The reflection or image of an object, as exhibited by a mirror or the like.

2. A reproduction, as if in a mirror.

3. A copy; adaptation.

I placed an antique mirror on my back fence and pointed it at the beautiful blue sky, fluffy clouds, and towering spruce and maple trees beyond my yard.

Yellow warbler perched on golden maple tree, out the Road - Juneau.

Although this is a digital photo, it has the feeling of old Kodachrome film...

この日曜日はとても温かく小春日和でした。もう新宿御苑でもみじが見られるとは思っていなかったのですが、

まだとても美しかったです。