[Summerz]

Beautiful pics.

[MRVphotog]

Went kayaking on Rich Pond then a short distance down the Lemon Fair River.

[square peg]

Taken late in the day on Sept. 21st in Montgomery.

[tdna]

After living in the Northern Rockies for awhile now, I'm desperate to see some Vermont foliage photos. If I could afford to take time off from work and fly back to Vermont for a few weeks this time of year, I'd do it. Since I can't, I'd love to live vicariously through some of your photos...anyone?

[square peg]

The colors are a little late, if not spotty right now tdna, but here's a few from earlier today. Hope you enjoy.

Craftsbury Common Sept. 29, 2009

[tdna]

Thanks. Man, Vermont is gorgeous. I miss it.

[MtnFlyer]

Square Peg, those shots are amazing. Do you mind if I ask what type camera you're using?

[square peg]

Just about the cheapest digital I could find at the time. Kodak Easyshare C713 / 7.1 megapixel with 3X optical zoom. It's a general purpose camera - that's all. Got the camera and memory card for under a hundred bucks. Believe me, I throw away plenty of shots as it doesn't do skies very consistently. A lot of them get washed out. But when the angle is right, it does a decent job. I tweaked the color and contrast on two of the above photos and also did a little cropping using the stock Windows photo editor that's part of the Vista package.

[MRVphotog]

Hey SP....I also use a little cheap($199) Kodak EasyShare. Check the front of the lens on your camera I bet dollars to doughnuts it has a genuine Schneider lens. Schneider has been making some of the best optics like forever. They make the lens for top large format cameras like the ones Ansel Adams used. That's why I bought it and it takes awesome pics.

Here is a foliage image from today. The light wasn't exactly great but as I was leaving work I decided to snap a couple of shots. It's more to show where the foliage is at. I'm sure most know that the foliage travels north to south so this is from about 60 mile north of Rutland, about 30 miles south of Stowe, along Rt 100. I say it's at about 60% here, totally debatable.

The pumpkin display is from the veggie/garden at Sugarbush. It's right in the middle of the base area so the two restaurants here use the veggies/herbs and the flowers for decoration. We hired a gal to just install and maintain the garden....a perfect example, abeit a small one, where growing and using veggies locally does produce jobs.



A wider view


The foliage, peak 7-10 days, maybe less, maybe more

[square peg]

Never knew I had something in common with Ansel Adams. Thanks for pointing that out, MRV. :smile: Love the pumpkins! Jay has some good color now, but the clouds were too low today to have a good look. There was also a bit of wet snow above 2000 ft. Downright chilly day here. I'm still rather amazed that some of the sugar maples behind my house in North Troy haven't changed at all.