Posts in Category: autumn
Maine! Ruby Red
Nothing so ruby red
as the leaves of beach rose
in late October
in Southern Maine
along the Bridle Path
back half a mile
from the sea.
If you have seen them
you know I am right!
And now you have seen them. Sony a5100 with Sony E 10-18 f4 wide angle zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Scene Selection Landscape. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii telephoto zoom at 139 and 105mm equivalents. Program mode with my landscape and macro modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Mousam and Roger’s Pond
I got out for a walk around Roger’s Pond by the Mousam River in Kennebunk, Maine yesterday and caught some of the now fading fall color or Southern Maine. Not in full sun, so a bit on the subtle side, but that is okay. It is the season. Sony a5100 with the Sony E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15-27mm equivalents. Superior Auto with Scene Select (Landscape). Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! Surprise Spring
Off Firehole Lake Drive you come to Surprise Spring, a crystal clear hot spring with an intermittent steam eruption. It was not super active on the day we visited, but it is still surprising and surprisingly beautiful. Just look at those colors. The video captures it a bit better. Sony a5100 with the Sony E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15 and 27mm equivalents. Program mode and, obviously, movie mode. Processed in Photomator. Video edited in Lumafusion and VidDay (resizing for posting).
Maine! Above Old Falls Pond
It would not be fall in southern Maine (or at least to me), if I did not get out to photograph the stretch of stream above the bride at Old Falls Pond. This is the Sony a5100 with the E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape Mode selection. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Orange!
We will take another break from Yellowstone to bring you a small sampling of the colors of fall in Maine. I have not gotten out much since getting back, what with my heart acting up, but I took a short walk around the neighborhood yesterday to see what I could find. Mainly orange. Maples and Oak. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at various short focal lengths for framing. Program mode with my macro modifications. Processed in Photomator. Assembled in FrameMagic.
Yellowstone! Lower Falls and the Canyon
Though Yellowstone National Park is mainly known for Old Faithful and its other thermal features, and for wildlife, mainly the American Bison and Wolves (and maybe Grizzly Bears), the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Yellowstone Falls are also major attractions. This is Lower Falls, from the Lower Falls overlook and Inspiration Point and the canyon in that area. The Yellowstone River has been cutting the canyon for 100s of thousands of years through the thermally weakened rhyolite left over from the formation and infilling of the caldera. The falls themselves, Upper Falls at 109 feet and lower at 308 feet, are there because the rock at their lips is just a bit harder than the rhyolite of the canyon. Except for the close-up of the falls, which was taken with the Sony a6700 and Tamron 50-400 at 126mm equivalent, the other shots are from 15 to 27mm as needed for framing with the Sony a5100 using Superior Auto with Landscape Scene Mode selected. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! Sheepeater Cliffs
If you read my other post this morning, this is Sheepeater Cliffs in Yellowstone National Park were we went several times to look for Pika. None on this morning, our first visit, but the cliffs are worth a look anyway, and this was the best light (and sky) we had on them. The Pika live in the talus slope below the cliffs. We did not see any this morning, perhaps because of the pair of guardians featured in my other post. The cliffs are columnar basalt from a lava flow 500,000 years ago and are named after the Tukudika, or Sheep Eaters—a band of Eastern Shoshone Indians. Sony a5100 with the Sony E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with the Landscape scene mode selection. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! Odd Couple
Raven: Sheepeater Cliffs, Yellowstone National Park, September 2024 — Something you do not see every day…two Ravens sharing a perch. Raven tend, in my experience, to be solitary birds except in breeding and nesting season, so to see two sitting side by side in September is odd. These two were at the base of Sheepeater Cliffs where we had stopped to look for Pika…the little rock rabbits with the big round ears. We did not find any, perhaps because of this pair of guardians of the cliffs. You can see the cliffs themselves in my companion post this morning. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! The grandeur
I was surprised how often I used the 75mm equivalent end of the Tamron 50-400 zoom for landscapes in Yellowstone. The scenery is so vast…so grand…that much of the detail gets lost in a wide angle view. These shots are coming down into Norris on the way south from the Golden Gate, somewhere before the turn to Sheepeater Cliffs. I think we had stopped for the Aspen again, which was just coming into color in the northern reaches of the park. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 75mm equivalent. Program mode. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! Early Morning Gardiner
From our first morning in Gardiner and Yellowstone. Up early to get into the park. The view across the Yellowstone from the Conoco parking lot. Sony a5100 with the E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto. Processed in Photomator.