August light; Bon Echo
Aug. 27th, 2004 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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August is my favourite month, partly because we can still count on nice weather here in Ontario. Minus blackflies and mosquitoes.
But I suspect another reason is the amazing quality of light. Night comes earlier and more quickly, but not before this golden rapture. All afternoon slowly falls into it. I struggled with my camera to capture it. Some strange photos came home from our trip to Bon Echo.
Brenna is featured in several of these.
The first two shots were actually taken in a picnic area beside Silver Lake, west of Perth, where we stopped for dinner on our drive back from Ottawa Monday evening.
The next one was taken at Mazinaw Lake with Bon Echo rock in the background. This place warrants a more extensive description, but I have already written one this evening for my August instalment of Living With Nature at Suite101.
The day we climbed the rock, I heard a guy say to his travelling partner, "Bon Echo must be the most beautiful provincial park in Ontario." I say, "Perhaps. For those people unwilling to go far out of the way." The rock Marian and I mounted on Rock Lake in Algonquin Park in July was just as spectacular. It might not have been quite as high, but was less crowded and spoiled. I'm sure Ontario has many more awesome scenes for the more adventurous traveller. However, Bon Echo ranks among the prettiest spots I've visited in this province.
Click the link for two more shots of the rock itself. These are followed by one photo from Marble Lake near the hamlet of Myers Cave during a short trip to buy ice. Finally, I'll wrap up the tour with one more shot back at Silver Lake.
Unfortunately the photos from Ottawa were unremarkable, so I won't bother to post any here.
Also published today is my August ecology article, Importance of wetlands, inspired by our visit to Point Pelee National Park earlier this month.
Now I'll disappear again until next weekend. Then I'll be home for good.
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Date: 2004-09-03 05:28 pm (UTC)I've hardly had a chance to glance at my friends' journals all summer, but I presume to travelled to Minnesota and posted some photographs, etc. I look forward to catching up.
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Date: 2004-08-27 07:28 am (UTC)very very sweet
be well
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Date: 2004-09-03 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-27 08:24 am (UTC)I love that late-afternoon golden light. We get it in September and October around here.
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Date: 2004-09-03 05:36 pm (UTC)I can enjoy a brilliant sunrise whenever I manage to crawl out of bed early, however my medication ensured that I slept until at least 9 a.m. all this summer.
Thanks as always for the encouragement.
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Date: 2004-08-27 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-03 05:45 pm (UTC)I want to ask you about cameras. With the Montreal trip behind me, my next savings objective is for a good camera. A couple of my friends specialize in macro images of nature, and I often envy their cameras, but when I really think about it, I've had a life-long dream of taking good wildlife photography, and that's probably more important to me. I wonder whether you cab recommend a digital camera that would be best suited for telephoto images, or perhaps suggest an avenue of enquiry.
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:53 pm (UTC)This is a link to another conversation I had in which the person posting the entry said she was interested in the same as you (macro and zoom). If you scroll down to my comment you will read what I had to say about the camera I use (Olympus) which included some photos to show what the optical zoom lens can do, plus an added feature within the camera that allows you to zoom in on a subject within a photo you’ve already taken, creating another photo of that close-up on your memory card. The Olympus costs about $400. The person in this entry stated that she was going to buy the Canon 1D but ended up buying a Fuji Finepix S7000.
With the Olympus you do not have to buy special lens to attach for zoom or macro, however you also cannot do a great job of either although both is adequate (you can always make up your own mind as far as whether they are adequate for you by viewing my photos). Still, if you want really good quality you will need to buy a good camera and then purchase the various lens to accomplish want you want, for example, I recently visited a site where the man displayed remarkable macros using a special lens for that (sorry, I don’t have a link for that one).
Anyway, I’m fairly convinced that my next camera will be the Canon 20D and will also want the 100-400mm lens for the wildlife close-ups. Hope this helps.
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/_crystal_rose_/444081.html)
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-05 09:51 am (UTC)My previous camera was a Canon AE-1, but my strongest lens was a 70-200 zoom, and I want to go closer than that. I have discovered the problem with digital zoom on my current camera. I don't use it; might as well crop using computer software.
As for cost, I would rather save longer for the camera than I want, and if I need to buy a separate lens that will allow me to do it in stages. The Canon series you recommended looks like a good consideration. I appreciate the help.
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Date: 2004-09-05 02:06 pm (UTC)Glad this helped.
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Date: 2004-08-30 05:34 pm (UTC)In my non-fiction writing seminar today, the professor mentioned a new literary jounral some of his friends are starting. It's called Ecotone, and more information can be found here:
http://www.davidgessner.com/work3.htm
It looks like it's right up your alley.
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