Fall Colors in Indiana

pathfinder

Finally, about 2 weeks later than usual, we are beginning to see real fall colors and clear, dry skies. I caught a few shots yesterday at a local park.

f10 1/80th ISO 200


f5.6 1/20th ISO 200


f5.6 1/13th ISO 100


Maybe I can find another shot tomorrow too :

USAIR

Jim awesome shots

Been doing the same thing as everyone else shooting the fall colors.
Took a long hike (25 miles) Friday up in Ohio still processing photos (and recovering:D )

Love the bridge and #2 looks like a watercolor painting very nice

Thanks
Fred

pathfinder

Thanks for stopping by Fred!

nikk

woww... those are beautiful.. i thought its beginning of winter by now?

Rohirrim

Beautiful shots! Lovely color.

pathfinder

nikk wrote:

woww... those are beautiful.. i thought its beginning of winter by now?

Thank you, nikk. Here in Indiana, winter won't really arrive until after Thanksgiving end of November, early December. It rarely snows here before Thanksgiving, and not always even for Christmas.
Fall colors are about a week or two later than typical this fall.

DavidTO

pathfinder wrote:

Thank you, nikk. Here in Indiana, winter won't really arrive until after Thanksgiving end of November, early December. It rarely snows here before Thanksgiving, and not always even for Christmas.
Fall colors are about a week or two later than typical this fall.

Interesting. Here in southern california it usually doesn't snow until around 4000 feet above sea level....

pathfinder

That is true, but then we rarely lose subdivisions to forest fires or mud landslides. And we're never over 900 feet anywhere in Indiana unless you are in an airplane.

ehughes

Sweet shot... Love the reflection....

gus

Wow ..these are great PF. how did i miss the thread ?

pathfinder

ehughes wrote:

Sweet shot... Love the reflection....

Thanks Ed:):

pathfinder

Thanks 'gus. Summer is coming for Oz, isn't it??

Stormdancing

Hay Hay! A fellow Hoosier.

Great shots. I love the bridge reflections. The covered bridge shot looks just a tad out of kilter to me. Could just be me though.

Down here in the very southwest corner of the state things are starting to change. I hope to take a day trip over to Garden of the Gods in southern Illinois this coming weekend. I hope to get some good shots there and from the fire tower.

Dana

GREAPER

Great shots Pathfinder.

I was wondering if you thought took a look at the second one upside down.

It's very impressionistic. (if that's a word)

gus

pathfinder wrote:

Thanks 'gus. Summer is coming for Oz, isn't it??

Days just starting to touch over 85...water restrictions & lightning everywhere, same as every summer.

snapapple

Beautiful shots Path. I love the covered bridge reflected in the water and the second one looks like a painting. Wonderful colors.

pathfinder

Stormdancing wrote:

Hay Hay! A fellow Hoosier.

Great shots. I love the bridge reflections. The covered bridge shot looks just a tad out of kilter to me. Could just be me though.

Down here in the very southwest corner of the state things are starting to change. I hope to take a day trip over to Garden of the Gods in southern Illinois this coming weekend. I hope to get some good shots there and from the fire tower.

Dana

Hi Ya Stormdancing, I asume you are referring to the last image, the second bridge seen end on. Yes, it does look out of kilter - I tried rotating it several ways and finally left it alone, the rear entrance is nowhere near in a line with the front entrance. There is just nothing square about a bridge that originally saw life almost 150 years ago

pathfinder

snapapple wrote:

Beautiful shots Path. I love the covered bridge reflected in the water and the second one looks like a painting. Wonderful colors.

Thanks Snappy. The light was lovely and the colors were just as intense as they are in the images. The second shot of the reflections of the leaves in the water were dazzling in person. I left the right lower corner with the leaves on the ground in the image, so that the viewer can see that it is a reflection. I have not really tried inverting it to look at. I'll give that a go this evening, Greaper.

Reflections like this can be hard to focus on sometimes, as the water surface shimmers and AF hunts for the contrast lines. A polarizing filter helped these shots.:):

pathfinder

Here you are Greaper, the reflections inverted. Thoughts??

tmlphoto

pathfinder wrote:

Here you are Greaper, the reflections inverted. Thoughts??

Very nice shot. You should print this one.

SteveF

I always like the perspective offered by the shot you've done with #2. Great execution on colors and composition.

pathfinder

tmlphoto wrote:

Very nice shot. You should print this one.

I think I'll give it a go. Probably way out of gamut for CMYK tho:cry

Phil U.

pathfinder wrote:

Here you are Greaper, the reflections inverted. Thoughts??

I love this one. A real-life watercolor.

LadyhawkVA

Great shots. I especially like the second - the reflections of the trees in the water. I also thought of flipping it upside down - it looks great both ways.

Dixie

pathfinder wrote:

Here you are Greaper, the reflections inverted. Thoughts??

I really like all the shots. The inverted reflection reminds me of a Monet or Manet impressionist painting.

I've been photographing covered bridges for about 12 years now and you are right about them holding their lines over a 100 years or so. I think that it is a miracle that as many are still standing as there are. We've lost about three in the last 10 years or so here in Alabama because idiots built fires inside while having drinking parties. Covered bridges and drunks don't mix.

At any rate, great covered bridge shots further enhanced by the fall colors.

Ric Grupe

2nd shot!

Too bad they have to put signs on structures to tempt someone to be bad. :crazy

Stormdancing

pathfinder wrote:

There is just nothing square about a bridge that originally saw life almost 150 years ago

Thanks for responding. I didn't know if it was me or not. I should know all about out of square. - living in a farm house built about the same time as this bridge. Did they know what square was?
Great shots from our beautiful state none the same.

Dana

Ann McRae

Really, really like this one.

ann