Here we are with the Changing Seasons October 2019 in Montana. It’s nice to travel and see new places. However this month for some reason I didn’t take too many photos. Maybe it’s because I just realized that I have way too many… My six external hard drives are full, and I didn’t even have the time to edit and publish all of them. Uhh. In September I was a little more prolific and posted some “quick shots on the go” taken with my iPhone…
Well, it’s the end of October and I only took very few this month. You can see them all below 🙂 – I just couldn’t resist staying away from this beautiful sunset over the mountains at Flathead Lake in Montana. * Click on the images for a larger format view!
In the past my Canon camera was like part of my body, but recently it looks like the phone has become a better friend. It’s easier and faster. Lightroom and Photoshop editing now is ancient history. I almost don’t even need to use my computer, if it’s not for making a blog/post.
These photos can even compete with those taken with a professional camera. You can see them for instance in my Montana gallery… surprising and incredible!!!
Here is a digital painting all made on my phone 🙂
Changing Seasons October 2019
Going back to the Changing Seasons, in the last week it was nice and sunny. You can see that from the evening red sky ( as the old adage says). Here is yet another of those really fabulous sunsets over the mountains at Flathead Lake, Montana. I took it from the balcony of the house we were staying in.
Although beautiful, you can tell that this time the sky was not as red as it was in the previous evening … And those clouds seemed to be quite threatening.
I also made a digital painting out of this image, but this time using my computer:
Well, the sky didn’t lie…. Look what we got the next morning. * I’m amazed to see the falling snowflakes in a photo taken with a phone! 🙂
In the front yard the situation was not different. Our car and everything else was covered by snow. Beautiful, but cold 🙂
Snow is nice anyway, and here are two more shots from that morning (just three days ago). I just loved to see the snow covered trees in front of the house:
…And this is the bird feeder among still beautiful autumn colors 🙂
This is my Changing Seasons October 2019 story from the Bigfork area in Montana. I hope you liked my iPhone photos 🙂
Changing Seasons | October photo a day challenge – Good by October |
** I just updated this post with some new images available as art prints in my Fine Art America gallery: Montana
Capturing the sky in outdoors photographs always complete a beautiful landscape. I know that we all want blue sunny sky, when traveling. However the beauty of the ever-changing clouds in every season is just hard to beat.
Capturing the sky at sunset
Here you can see two instances of the same place: Peggy’s Cove lighthouse. I took them at the end of summer at sunset. The difference is that for the second one I waited longer to get the red sky.
** BTW, all the photos below are part of my Fine Art America gallery, available for prints. By clicking on them you will see all the available options.
But talking about sunset, when the sun is low and less bright capturing the sunburst is just a hobby of mine
Capturing the sky reflections
The water in the picture above was a little rippled, but when it’s calm it mirrors the sunset colors beautifully. Sometimes, part of the shore gets reflected as well
I didn’t mean to dedicate this post to capturing the sky in Canada only, but, but it looks like I have more nature photos from my Canadian travels… Just look at these two instances of the water reflecting the sky in Ontario at dusk.
… And sometimes it’s fun to capture just the sky reflections, without actually looking up. I took this photo in a pond in Newfoundland and made it painterly in the digital media:
Another instance I found exciting to photograph is this almost perfect symmetry of the reflected sky in the water. I took it in Nova Scotia, and called it “As Above, So Below”. I also made it painterly in the digital media:
Capturing the sky with silhouettes
Yes sure, against the illuminated sky at sunset, all objects appear as silhouettes – how beautiful! Just look at this Inukshuk sculpture made of balanced rocks in Collingwood, Ontario. I called it “The Guardian”
But it the silhouette doesn’t have to be on the water. Here is the iconic “Man with two hats” sculpture Dow’s Lake, downtown Ottawa. It it a gift from Netherlands to Canada, as a symbol of appreciation for the Canadian Forces who Liberated Holland in the world War Two.
Capturing the sky at daytime
Now, I know that sunsets make beautiful sky pictures, but the daylight photography is not to be ignored either. For instance, here is a capture of long red truck loaded with lumber and driving on a highway in New Brunswick, Canada.
I was always captivated by the puffy clouds on the big Canadian sky, looking like they are just placed there by hand… Here we are in the Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Newfoundland. I liked the shadows of these huge clouds over the old eroded millennial Gros Morne mountain. * I talked about it in my “Treasure hunt in Newfoundland“
I have many, many more photos capturing the sky and not only in Canada. I will finish this post however with another Canadian symbol: The Snowbirds. I’m talking about the Canadian Acrobatic team of the Royal Canadian Air Force, flying under the sky of Ottawa, Canada.
And here are also two posters I made with their demonstration:
I hope you enjoyed my Canadian sky images. I made this post inspired by the theme suggested in the WP group of photographers at Lens Artists. Lens-Artists Challenge #250– Skyscapes or Cloudscapes hosted this week by Amy
BTW, this is the Pinterest entry on my Travel Stories Illustrated board
Backlit pictures is one of my favorite subjects. Observing the nature, shooting in the urban areas, or just exploring objects lit from the back is a type of photography I often embrace. No matter the time of the year or the subject, I love to see and capture them with my camera.
Well I haven’t made any new posts for a long time, and now I’m trying to go back into my old habits. My life has dramatically changed, but I still have my many old travel photos to look at, enjoy and share with passion.
I’m glad I found again the Lens-Artists Challenges on WordPress. I’m even happier to see that the new challenge is about backlit, because I have so many images on this type of photos 🙂
I definitely cannot post them all here, so I’ll go only with some uploaded to my Fine Art America gallery. They are available art prints for home and wall decor, as well as accessories and all kind of exciting products. Just click on them to see for yourself.
As a travel photographer I mainly shoot outside using the natural light, so I’ll start with some nature photos.
Backlit in Nature
Observing the green leaves after a summer rain, blooming cactus flowers in Arizona, a glowing sunflower in Spain, or the glowing light at Lake Constance.
I often like to digitally hand paint my photos. This is what I did with my blooming pink prickle pear cactus in a glowing backlight in the Mohave desert, Arizona at springtime.
The swans at their mating spring ritual was an amazing experience. I photographed them backlit by the morning sun on the Rhine River, Germany. You can see them in my previous blog: Swans Nuptial Dance on the Rhine River, Germany
Talking about birds, look at this Robin mother in the springtime light with her cute little chicks 🙂
In Cancun, Mexico, I just couldn’t resist to photograph this Caribbean spa at sunset,backlit by the afternoon sun.
That’s right: the light coming from the back, often creates silhouettes. I made my fiery sunset on the beach as a digital painting as well:
Backlit at wintertime
In the winter, the light coming from the back looks totally different. Look at these leaves covered by the first snow in Canada (photo and painting versions). Here actually, it is not about the sun being behind, but rather the sunlight reflected by the ice:
From Canada I have many more backlit winter photos, but I’ll post here only one more. I also took it in late November. It features a couple of milk pods in a field of sparkling light. I have a whole post on backlit milk pods in my Giftsmart website, called “Autumn Splash“
Urban backlit photographs
I have a passion for photographing urban scenes, and I think that the backlit ones are among the best.
I’ll start with a urban scene at the evening golden light taken in Ottawa, Canada:
Another one that I definitely have to add here is a scene from the Lake Constance, Germany. I also made it as a manual digital painting:
From Las Vegas, I’ll post another digital painting. It’s the view of the Mandalay Bay at the golden light:
Well, I have restrict myself from uploading all the backlit pictures I have to this post. I’ll insert others in the future. However, you can see them all in my Fine Art America gallery.
For the fun of challenges, I’m participating in Leya’s challenge for this week: Backlit