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October 22 - A Strange Autumn
This has been a most unusual autumn. The warm weather in September and thus far in October has played havoc with our usually brilliant fall colours. I normally look forward to morning fog for those atmospheric conditions that can make for exciting photo ops, but those foggy mornings seldom came. Clear, bright sunny conditions are not what we photographers crave.
Since I have not blogged for a long time, I have chosen a large sampling of my images from the last month. All of these images I made relatively close to home.
S_17_0254Foggy sunrise south end of Sudbury
Foggy morning along Highway 69
S_17_0245Thick October fog, Sudbury
South end of Sudbury
S_17_0247Morning fog, McFarlane Lake, Sudbury
Morning on McFarlane Lake
S_17_0271Sunrise, Simon Lake, Naughton
Simon Lake, Naughton
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Simon Lake, Naughton
S_17_0291Autumn morning on Vermilion River, Whitefish
Vermilion River, Whitefish
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Vermilion River, Whitefish
S_17_0319Morning on lake in Broder Township, Sudbury
Morning on unnamed lake, Broder Township, Sudbury
S_17_0380Early morning, near home
Dawn light, across the road from home
S_17_0326Birches, Kivi Park, Sudbury
S_17_0332Red maple, Kivi Park, Sudbury
S_17_0398Maple in birch grove, Kivi Park, Sudbury
These three images are from Kivi Park
S_17_0429Sunset, road to Worthington
Sunset along Worthington Road
95th Birthday Party
We were in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, last Saturday (August 12) to celebrate my Aunt Aili's 95th birthday.
My mother's younger sister was born in the Sudbury area in 1922. After she married, she moved to her husband Will's home, Milwaukee.
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She certainly does not look 95.
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Aili with the members of her family, two daughters, children, grand children, and great grand children.
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The celebrants, before cutting the cake.
It was difficult keeping the background numbers properly aligned as 95.
A great party! Thanks to everyone for helping Aili celebrate.
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August 7 - Revisiting Wildlife Fujichromes
It's been a slow summer, at least for photography. So recently I've been optimizing scans of some of my wildlife images, photos that I made back in the day that I used Fujichrome Velvia in my Leica cameras. Here is a selection of those images.
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Gray Wolf, Montana (captive)
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Red Fox, Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
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Coyote, Montana (captive)
01000334Cougar (Felis concolor)
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Cougar, a.k.a. Mountain Lion, Montana (captive)
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Canada Lynx, Montana (captive)
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Bobcat kitten, Montana (captive)
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Sharp-tailed Grouse on lek, Manitoulin Island
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Arctic Ground Squirrel, Yukon
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Columbian Ground Squirrel, Glacier National Park, British Columbia
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Hoary Marmot, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
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Pronghorn, Yellowstone National Park, Montana
July 7 - Where Is Summer?
We've had a lot of rain recently, and not many sunny days. The upside to this is that the wildflowers have been abundant. This photo shows the lupines at our driveway entrance.
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Here are some other photos that I made of wildflowers in and around our place.
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Our celebration of Canada Day concluded with the fireworks over Ramsey Lake.
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Following Canada Day, we had a great visit at the Merwin camp at Whitefish Falls (with our friends Marilyn and Bob who took us to their daughter's place). This is the deck with a serene view of Bay of Islands.
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This photo shows the Canada Day sunset over McFarlane Lake at the Wilkinson home.
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We are trying to be optimistic: summer is coming.
June 11 - Beat the Heat and Compose a Blog
This was our hottest day of the year, with the temperature here reaching 32.7 C. So I thought that it was time to show a few of my recent photos.
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I like to sit at this window to read and to take in the view as spring gradually changes the landscape and summer approaches. Fiddleheads and rhubarb are a couple of the wild plants that are delicacies of the season that I look forward to. Today I baked a rhubarb custard pie.
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We recently visited Manitoulin Island to spend time with our friends Nancy and Rick. While there I helped Rick assemble and put in his new dock.
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How can we get together and not enjoy good dinners with fantastic wines? These are a given.
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I have also found time to photograph the season's landscapes around my home territory. Here is a selection of these images.
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These two images I made just down the road from my house.
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A variety of spring colours at Naughton.
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These two wetland images I found within the city limits of Sudbury.
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What photos could one make of Canada without at least one of a hockey rink, or a former hockey rink!
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The previous five images are from Manitoulin Island. This following photo I made in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, at my cousin's home.
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