Fun Fall Photography

Fall is such an awesome time of year to go out and shoot. With all the tourists and camping families gone home for the season, the lake is peaceful once again, if a tad cold.

Yesterday morning, I went out to the lake (5 mins from our house!) and took advantage of the quiet, and absence of motor boats to sneak up on the ducks who have not left town yet. I've never seen so many ducks near the shores of Charlie Lake before - usually when I'm out there, it's hot and sunny and the ducks are hiding from the humans. Yesterday, however, it was a completely different story. While I was not able to get close enough to get any really good shots of ducks landing or taking flight, I did manage to catch several of them feeding along the shoreline, butts in the air.

They had no idea I was hiding behind a bush, a few metres away!



Not only does fall provide an opportunity to photograph wildlife without human intrusion - but the colours are fabulous! Up here in northern British Columbia, we don't have maple trees, so there's not a lot of red foliage - which I remember from my childhood in Ontario as being spectacular - we have varying shades of yellow, orange and brown, generally. But occasionally, one comes upon a splash of red leaves, as I did when walking around the wetland yesterday. As I mentioned in a previous post - I love how black & white images portray the subject without any distracting colour, to take your eye away from the essence of the photograph - but in this case, the photos I took yesterday would not have had the same impact without the colour.

Add in the reflections from the unusually calm lake, and fall photography in the Peace Country becomes even more fun!

Would you believe these were taken on an overcast, cold and rainy day? Yet the colours still pop.


Today, it's overcast again, and although not raining, it's very foggy out, even at noon. After lunch I'm off to shoot something around the farm . . . maybe I'll find some gorillas in the mist?