I spent another day exploring Claireville’s autumn colours looking to find some beautiful light.
Though the trees
After coming home and viewing the photos I decided that they needed a vintage feel.
Light on the Reeds
Autumn brings with it a very special light and I love getting out to capture it. I could spend many days enjoying this but sadly the season doesn’t last as long as I would want it to.
Autumn Light
When is your favourite time of year?
One of the things I decided to do while I was up here camping was to shoot a few different lifestyle shots. Although it’s not the typical thing I post here I decided to share with you one of the photos I created.
A Walk
This particular shot was quite challenging. I’m barefoot in the photo and that rocky path was pretty darn sharp. After a large number of shots and walking back and forth more than a dozen times, I finally got something I liked. What do you think?
Sunset View
After the shoot, I had to boot it over to Singing Sands where I joined a guided hike from the National Park Service. The hike was supposed to be a night hike but it was still a little early in the season for it to be dark out. We learned a number of things about how night animals use their other senses to find their own and to hunt. It was quite a lovely walk and a great learning experience.
After the hike I took the shot above. I lucked out with someone posing in a good spot as the sun went down behind the tree line.
We woke up extra early this morning to drive over to the Tobermory lighthouse and get us some sunrise photos. We were eager to see what mother nature was going to show us.
And I had a front seat to the spectacular event.
You couldn’t ask for a better morning. Temperatures were mild, the colours were on point and we had some cloud for the colours to reflect off of. Thank you Mother Nature!
After a hearty breakfast we hopped on a boat and headed over to Flowerpot Island. After such great sunrise, the clouds came in and the drizzle started, eventually turning into a more substantial rain later in the day.
We walked along the shoreline path and stopped to photograph the flowerpots before heading to the
Instead of hiking the shoreline around the island we decided to cut through the middle and take the trail over some more rugged terrain in the hopes of spotting the elusive Striped Coral Root orchid. It wasn’t until we reached the main trail again that we spotted the orchid. I was thankful that I had the rain gear as I was down on the ground a number of times to get photos of almost every flower we spotted.
By the time we got back to our Airbnb we were both wiped and very damp. Not to mention excited to see what we had captured. We have one more day here in Tobermory and it looked like we may have some better weather.
It’s our first day of our epic east coast road trip. As all epic road trips the first day is usually just a bunch of driving as was the case for us. We didn’t stop much, as eastern Ontario, along the 401 corridor, is pretty dry for quick photography spots. There are definitely spots we could go to but the goal today was get to River-du-loop, get settled in and enjoy a lovely dinner at Notre-Dame-du-Portage.
When we sat down to dinner at Auberge-du-Portage we were treated to a spectacular sunset over the St. Lawrence River not to mention an amazing dinner.
Notre-Dame-du-Portage
I ran out mid-feast to get some shots but it was after the sun went down and we got our cameras out that we were treated to this sky.
