I was up and out reasonably early this morning with hopes of catching a nice shot of frost at first light. Simply photographing frost wouldn't be that hard (one would think), but with a decent subject/composition was a little more of a challenge. I'd elected to try my luck out amidst the farming areas of Ladner as I hadn't been there for a while and luckily was driving past this field of unharvested pumpkins just as the sun was rising.
When I first got a look at this shot - which I'd thought was the best of the crop (pun intended) - on the computer I was really disappointed, but a little tweak here and an adjustment there and it came out quite close to what I was looking for so I'm rather pleased with it. Photoshop saves the day again.
I spent entirely too much time today trying to modify the header for this blog - it shouldn't have been that difficult. I do like the result though. It is, of course, a bit of the last picture that I posted, with some minor editing. Not quite what I'd originally had in mind, but I don't think that will work (related to the problems I experienced), so this is what you get. Better than the standard blogger header at least.
As I haven't shot anything new all week, and didn't make it out today, I thought I'd do some more archive raiding for images that got missed the first time around. This one is from back in June, and I'm really not sure why it didn't get posted other than maybe I'd posted too many flower pictures already. But, since we're into the darkest days of winter (solstice in less than two weeks), I suppose we could all use a little pick-me-up - at least those of us in the northern hemisphere.
And in spite of more rain in the forcast for tomorrow I'm going to
try and get out and shoot something new.
For the last several days the weatherfolk have been promising yet another in our series of November storms for today. It didn't materialize. Whahoo! Instead, it cleared up quite nicely this afternoon and there was no excuse possible for not getting out to enjoy it. Well, I guess all those silly football fans had the excuse of the Grey Cup, but not being a football fan I couldn't use that one, so I went out in search of something to photograph instead.
Today's journey took me to previouly untravelled parts of exurban Ladner. This first image from today (there should be at least one more, possibly two) is perhaps more suited to October than November. You'd think that by now all the pumpkins would have been harvested, but apparently not. I guess this was a bumper year, so much so that there was just no market for these gourds.
Some people passing by, looking at me a little curiously (mom, what's that weird guy doing?) for taking pictures of these pumpkins as though pumpkins on the vine in November are a perfectly understandable normal thing, assured me that these bright orange beauties would in fact be plowed under shortly.
