
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.

Great Blue Heron: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — I photographed this Great Blue Heron, hunting the rapids on the Mousam River, a few weeks ago and posted lots of images already. That was a rainy, overcast day. I went back recently on a sunny day, to check for Eagles again, and that same GBH was still there, perched on the snag where I first saw it, taking in the sun and preening. I kind of hoped it would get down in the water and hunt some more so I could get some action shots, and I waited around for quite a while, but my patience has limits and generally I am the kind of photographer who takes the photo ops as they come. These sunny shots of various Herony poses will have to do. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 320 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.