Posts in Category: foliage
Maine! Young forest in October
Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farms, Wells, Maine, USA, October 2023 — lots of young maples along the edge of the salt marsh at Laudholm Farms create a interesting pattern against the October leaves. OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Program mode with in-camera HDR. Processed in Pixelmator Pro.
Maine! Laudholm Farms Panos
I got out to Laudholm Farms (Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve) in Wells, Maine on our last sunny day (only sunny day last week) to record the last of the fall foliage before it is all on the ground. My new landscape and macro camera does not have in-camera “sweep panorama mode”…the first camera I have owned in years that is without it, so these panoramas are done the old fashioned way…4 HDR shots for the first, and 3 for the second, processed and then stitched together into a full resolution panorama in a program on my Mac called, strangely enough, Panorama Stitcher. It is fully automated and does an excellent job. All I have to do after the stitch is to crop and fill the edges to make a rectangle. One view is at the corner of the “front drive” at north end of the parking lot and the woodlot and fields there, and the other is from the little rise going in toward the beach, just before you enter the brushy edge of the old orchard, looking back at the neighboring farm and the Laudholm buildings themselves. These will benefit from a full screen view. 🙂 OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Program mode with in-camera HDR. Processed in Pixelmator Pro.
Maine! October Woodland Path
Laudholm Farms (Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve), Wells, Maine, USA, October 2023 — There is nothing quite like a mixed forest in Southern Maine in October. This is a trail at Laudholm Farms, down along the border with the on section of Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. Glorious light and glorious fall color. OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Program mode with in-camera HDR. -.3EV. Processed in Pixelmator Pro and Apple Photos.
Maine! Laudholm Autumn
Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farms, Wells, Maine, USA, October 2023 — Some days you just have to get out with your camera. Those clouds will be rain today. OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Program mode with in-camera HDR. Processed in Pixelmator Pro.
Maine! Pine jealousy
If the pines are jealous of the maple’s fall finery, they can take pride in supporting the fiery climbing vine. This is Virginia Creeper, sometimes know as Woodvine…as it is one of the few climbing vines that turns red in the fall. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 554mm equivalent. Program mode. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 500 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Fall rapids
Rapids with their burden of fallen leaves on the Batson River at Emmon’s Preserve in Kennebunkport Maine. This is an intermediate shot between frozen water and silk…an HDR in Shutter preferred at 1/5 of a second and f18. ISO 200 at 24mm equivalent with the OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with the 12-45mm zoom. Processed in Pixelmator Pro.
Maine! Early Autumn Sun on the Water-meadow
Kennebunk, Maine, USA. Early morning sun on the fall foliage along the Bridle Path where it crosses a small, nameless, tidal creek. Three images with the OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii and the 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. In-camera HDR scene mode. Processed in Pixomator Pro and stitched in Bimostitch. Final touch-up in Apple Photos.
Maine! Early autumn sun
Early autumn sunshine on a corner of the forest along the Kennebunk Bridle Path in Kennebunk, Maine, USA. Typically for this year, the oaks are redder than the maples. ?? OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Program mode with in-camera HDR. Processed in Pixelmator Pro.
Light in the forest…
Emmon’s Preserve, Kennebunkport, Maine, USA, October 2023 — Just a study in light and shadow…with some fall foliage for highlight. OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Program mode with in-camera HDR. -1EV.
Fall foliage in Southern Maine
Maybe I just have not gotten to the right places, but this just might be as good as the foliage gets this year in southern Maine. We still have not had a frost, and the maples are just giving up hope and falling off the trees with only a touch of yellow. In the usual places for an early turn, where the trees stand with their feet in a marshy spot, the trees are already bare. So it goes. We will enjoy the turn of the seasons one way or another. OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. HDR Scene mode. Processed in Pixelmator Pro.