Folks from the photography clubs visited several spots in north Georgia seeking fall color or wtaerfalls or both. We haven’t had a lot of rain recently, so the water as not a good as in years past, but it was adequate. The color was maybe a little past peak, but that was more than adequate. Because this was on a weekend we were among thousands of leaf peepers clogging up the parking areas. But we persevered.
At Helton Creek Falls, in particular, the parking was far worse than I’ve ever seen it, and people were all over the pool below the upper falls. So I chose not to take any pictures of that falls. Instead, I went down below the lower falls and found some good reflections.
An assortment from a good sunrise, blooms in the yard and a hike at Hard Labor Creek State Park.
We drove to Raleigh to visit Cathy, Beth and their families, one of the few times Cathy has been able to come back to this part of the country. I tried some birding venues with little success. I did do better at Pullen Park and at Beth’s garden.
A few very nice sunrises late in the month, all at West Bank Park near Buford dam.
We drove to the Twin Cities for my sister’s birthday, and while there I took a couple mornings to watch and photograph the egrets, geese and ducks at the Wood Lake Nature Center. In addition to the very nice trail, there is a boardwalk across the middle of the swamp, and that affords a great place to observe and photograph (shoot) the birds. I used my 100-400 mm lens, but the egret heads a so small, the autofocus system had a hard time locking focus on them. And I was working without a tripod or other support. So I took many images, but not all of them worked out. And the light was changing rapidly as I shot. I started before the sun broke over the trees and stayed after it got up over the trees.
An outing with the North Georgia Photography Club and the Cobb Photographic Society in mid-September to Gibbs Gardens. I went with no expectations, but I hoped to find waterlilies and good stuff in the Japanese Garden. The Japanese Garden is not yet in fall colors, so it was difficult to find compositions among all the shades and shapes of green. The waterlilies were their usual good selves. I also walked up to the Manor House, and I found an interesting angle there. Lastly, as always, I stopped to see what the gazebo looked like. The pond was full of weeds, so I got down low to screen that with the flowers along th edge of the pond.
I was up early for several mornings, and I went to West Bank Park to both watch the sunrise and to walk a few miles. Not al the sunrise were great, but I was able to find interesting images as the sun came through the trees.
Sunrises on the firstdays of the month was pretty good, but the second was spectacular. The first two images are from the first; the others are from the second
More sunrise walks at West Bank Park. Some days are better than others for sunrise photo ops.
I was up regularly for sunrise because the weather was so hot that early morning was the only time I could walk without sweating too much. So I have many sunrise images. I also drove to Dick’s Creek one morning to shoot that waterfall just to do something different. The waterfall images are first; the sunrises are second.
And the collection of images from various sunrises.