Not only the scenery, but I want to eat some traditional foods like seal blood puddins, moose ringals (sp?), etc. We have ruffed and spruce grouse, but I want to try ptarmigan too when I get there. Oh, and all the great seafood from the ocean as well.
All of your pics are cool! I really like the one with the red doors! It's reminds me of a photo that was edited with filters. Pretty neat to pull one off like that with no editing.
Thanks very much! Yeah I love it when that happens. I don't really like editing, especially when done to excess. Scenery pics, especially on sunny days, are the kind of pics that (I find) you can play with them all day long and they only get worse. Theres a fine line where editing just makes itself obvious, not that that's always a bad thing. Creepy fog and the like speaks for itself usually too. The couple things that usually drive me to edit a touch are "in-between" weather, say just overcast enough that the camera makes it look just plain dull. In person is always better of course, but bright sunny days, sunrises and sunsets, and the polar opposite, powerful fog, or stormy weather are the photographers weather, a calm but grey day really exaggerates how much is lost in the camera. So I'll try to brighten it up, or create that powerful dark or stormy look (the latter being usually easier to achieve without the pic winding up looking too artificial),. When suitable, I think black and white is the best way to edit a photo for that purpose, sometimes it seamlessly removes the unwanted element without making it obvious that someone felt the picture needed change. When it does work, it does it perfectly. The one time I freely and without hesitation do obvious editing is when a picture comes out blurry. Sometimes an effect will turn what would have been digital garbage into something useable. Industrial type photography, especially of a decaying subject, I'm more forgiving to editing with too, probably because the subject is so blatantly artificial and human made. What some call luck is definitely the scenery photographers greatest tool (blessing?).....talent and learned skill helps you capture angles and find subjects, but for those shots that scream "perfect straight outta the camera", it's in no small part just being in the right place at the right time.
These pics were taken last weekend on a local ski trip. We had an inversion for awhile that caused the valley cloud to hang around through the day. The far right is a pic of my daughter taking in the views before boarding into the clouds. Taken with an I phone. They are a bit dark for my liking, taken late afternoon. You can see through the draw that the sun is lowish in the west. Cross posted a few days ago in whats your temperature what are you burning.
Your pictures leave me with a good impression of your area. I would be happy there, as you must be. It reminds me of our north shore commercial fishing areas of Lake Superior and surrounding boreal forests.
I am sure you would like it. Based on many of the pictures by members here, there are a lot of places to visit that I would probably like as well.
Few photos pulled from my phone. Benedum Theater chandler. Red Lichen. Myrtle Beach frog and Pawleys Island beach. Pittsburgh International Race Complex sunrise. Myrtle Beach
Just looked at the pics on a computer. Sorry, I did not realize how bad my camera's phone really was.
I love that kind of red lichen! We had it growing on an old cedar fence that we replaced, I was so sorry to see it go. I love the drapey kind of lichen on fir trees in northern Maine, too. Newfoundland must have all sorts of lichens.
Thanks, that's actually the shot following it, mirrored and black and whited. I don't often even bother experimenting with mirroring pics, cause if course it will usually be obvious that's all it is. Something made me do it on that one, and I was amazed how it looked so real...
