That Time of Year

Summer Sun in Decline

 

Mycologist Needed…

I photographed these on the Amisk Wuche trail in Elk Island National Park last weekend. They don’t quite match with anything in my mushroom books – is there someone out there who can help identify these fungi?

Order Agaricales (Gilled Mushrooms)

Honey Mushroom Trio

 

Autumn in Spring

Autumn at Long Lake

Multiple Exposure, fall of 2007. Long Lake, Alberta.

 

Photo Album – Leaf Topography

 

Chickakoo Lake Recreation Area

Another trip with the ATA Photography group. Like the Victoria Trail trip, it was an overcast morning with scattered showers. This time I was feeling more positive, despite the weather.  I sometimes think too much about the photographic potential of the day rather than enjoy the outing for its own sake. This was the second trip to the Chickakoo area by the group, and I was looking forward to exploring the trails again. We were early so we headed down to the lake near the parking lot. It was misty morning, most of the leaves on the trees had blown down previously, but the air was still for now. There was a wealth of webbing on many of the branches, and each strand of the webs was pearled with moisture. I was using my 90mm Tamron macro lens with the 1.5 Kenko tele-extender attached. With a DX lens this amounts to an almost 200 mm macro. This gives the necessary range to avoid one of the mishaps of web and dew photography – a short macro is more likely to bump into the web and knock off the drops. I had not tested this combination yet, so I was hoping for the best. My partner was my daughter Arwen, who was most fascinated by the birch trees and the multiplicity of hues revealed by the peeling bark. We walked and chatted, and enjoyed the day for what it was – a pleasant late autumn walk in the woods.