I forget what a difference 24 hours can make. It is like someone pulled the stopper out of the color bottle overnight. We woke this morning to sudden fall. Still a bit muted by best year standards, but full-on fall color none the less. The leaf-peepers who reserved for Columbus Day weekend foliage are not going to be disappointed after all. 🙂

This is my favorite bow in the river at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. I have several panoramas of this view, but I could not resist another yesterday with the color. To do it justice you need to see it larger. Click the image to open to it your full monitor width on WideEyedInWonder.

It is three shots stitched and blended in Photoshop Elements, and then processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. (I have my WideEyedInWonder site set to a maximum of 4000 pixels wide, but the original is about 8,000 pixels wide.)

Each shot, Canon SX40HS at 24mm equivalent field of view. Nominal exposure, f4 @ 1/800th @ ISO 200. Program, with My Color set to Vivid. (My Color is a Canon feature that applies various processing presets, among them: sepia, b&w, vivid, vivid blue, vivid green, etc. There is a Vivid mode under the scene modes, but that is over-the-top in most situations. Super-saturated. See yesterday’s post. Vivid in My Color, however, just perks the image up enough to bring out the fall color nicely.)

And here is a closer view of the center of the image above. About 37mm equivalent field of view, f4 @ 1/640th @ ISO 125. Program, with My Color set to Vivid. Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness and cropped for composition. Again, you can see it larger by clicking the image and using the size controls (if needed) across the top of the window.