Thanksgiving special

[vaneramos]

I spent a few hours last night and today sorting through nearly 300 photos I took over the weekend and assembling a gallery of 45 images. Here is a brief guide to the gallery:

• Frame 1. Our driveway.


• Frames 2-4, 17, 20-23. Scenes along Haliburton County Road 12 on Saturday morning. The sky was overcast, but the colours were still spectacular. I took a couple interesting portraits of Brenna on the roadside.
  
• Frames 5-16. Partway along this route, Marian, Brenna and I got out and walked to the dam at the bottom of our lake. I took a series of closeup photos of leaves by the stream.
  
• Frames 17-19. These are out of sequence, taken at about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday when the clouds briefly broke and I took some interesting sky pictures. The views are across Lake Fletcher from our neighbours' docks.
  
• Frames 23-24. Brenna and I went for a short walk along our road before dinner.
  
• Frames 25-27. Sunday morning: a chickadee and a chipmunk picking up sunflower seeds outside our living room window.
  
• Frames 28-41. Sunday afternoon the sky cleared for a few hours. Dad and I took a boat tour around Lake Fletcher so I could take some pictures of the spectacular fall colour.
  
• Frames 42-45. The weather turned fine in time for me and the girls to leave on Monday afternoon. Here's one family shot, and three pictures taken along the road home.
  

The LJ pics site is a little less reliable than LJ itself, so in case you have trouble viewing it or don't want to take the full tour, this post features six of my favourite images, stored elsewhere.

The image of Brenna above shows a pose so characteristic of her that we joke about her being one of the Mystics from The Dark Crystal. Frivolity aside, I feel priveleged to have so much beauty in my life.




Sugar maples are responsible for most of the fall colour in these photos, but the one above also includes birch and cherry.







Otter Lake on Monday afternoon.




Sunday afternoon: a panoramic shot giving a good sense of the look and feel of Lake Fletcher. Our cottage is situated around the point to the right.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

what beautiful photos! yes, brenna does look elfin and lovely there.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Maybe even a forest nymph. :-)

[ghostsandrobots.livejournal.com]

That is a stunning photo of Brenna.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I think it will become one of my favourites of her. Ironically, we were horsing around when I took it, but it captured another side of her altogether.

[halation.livejournal.com]

your daughter is beautiful

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I feel so lucky. She is also kind, witty, a tease, dexterous and skillful at drawing.

[halation.livejournal.com]

the beauty i mean is the beauty that comes from the soul and lands on the surface, a beauty exuded from the heart and spirit that shows.

xo

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I love when a photograph captures some hints!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Why thank you, Ian. That is a high compliment. If there's anything I love, it's a tree. I kept looking for fiery banks of maples, but when I got home and edited my photos, it was the delicate coloured tapestries I liked best, like the third image in this post.

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

*mouth open* Wow...thanks!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. :-)

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

GReat stuff, my favorite is the one of of Brenna? this really touches on the innocense and joy of being a child and having children, words get a bit sloppy but the feeling is very nice, very moving.

be well
Van

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's Bren. That paradox of vulnerability and craftiness rolled into one.