Some images taken along the southern Rim Trail in Hibernia County Park, when the air temperature was 9°F!
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On Friday the 18th, I had a chance to drive around again looking for the Fall colors.
Here we are, over halfway through October, and there still is a fair amount of green still in the trees, but in other places, some of the trees are already bare.
All these shoots were taken using my Canon 18-55 IS using both two Tiffen Neutral Density filters (1.2 & 0.9) at f22+ for 15 to 25 seconds.
I gotta find me a ND filter in the 2.1 range. My 3.0 is too much, and I do not like having two layers of glass on the lens…
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Some images taken along Wagontown Rd of the West Branch of the Brandywine Creek in Hibernia Park.
Hope you enjoyed!
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Wow!
I just got the following email! –
“Hello Andrew
Congratulations, the picture you submitted for our February competition with theme ‘Water’ has won the first prize. [snip…]
http://
landscapephotographymagazine. com/2013/lpm-manfrotto- competition-winner-theme- water/ Paul”
and from the main website:
“We loved Andrew’s image for many reasons. The composition was slightly complicated and yet, extremely pleasing and well designed to keep your eyes staring at it for a while. It contained beautifully vivid colours and gorgeous reflections. The exposure was very well controlled and so was the shutter speed. All in all, a superb image and well worth to win our February competition.”
I am SO honored to have been chosen the Winner with so many other awesome entries!
For what it is worth, I bought my current tripod, a Bogen (#3020), when I was about 18, which was over 30+ years ago, so I greatly look forward to trying out something more modern!
Thank you to the folks at landscapephotographymagazine.com and Manfrotto for this!
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After spending my Sunday morning, reading all the various headlines, weeding through the rhetoric and engaging in several spirited conversations, it was time to get out of the house.
Especially with the kids!
We backed up, and headed to the Marsh Creek Dam trailhead, and started our Sunday Family nature walk.
The three of us were eager to see what the water level was, since hurricane Sandy had passed over our area earlier in the week.
As we headed down the hill, in the distance, one could see the rapid flow of water as it traveled down the spillway, and by the time we reached the USGS station, it was easy to hear the water thundering over the dam.
From the observation area, we were amazed at the power in front of us.
We walked along the trail, enjoying the first cold weather of the season as we headed for the metal bridge.
After some time, we headed back to the car, as I commented about my adventures to this area back in September.
At dinner, all the kids could talk about was the flooding and the smell!
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