Fall foliage is coming. To some of us anyway.
For me, this fall means I get to watch my leaf turn! Well, it’s not quite that. There’s more than one leaf!
But it’s not like Pennsylvania where I’m from, or fall in New England.
One of my favorite places to visit in the fall is New Hampshire. If you haven’t had the pleasure, put it on your bucket list.
Great food, real maple syrup, and color. Lots of color.
Glen Junction Restaurant just posted on Facebook that their pumpkin pancakes start this Saturday. With maple cream…
That’s really what got me going about fall foliage…
Colors can be different from valley to valley, and from the bottom of the valley to the top of the mountains. It’s a good thing digital film is cheap!
There’s a gallery on Laughing Frog Images devoted to fall foliage in New Hampshire. Coincidentally, it’s called fall foliage in New Hampshire. There’s more to be added to that gallery, and maybe this will get me going on that.
The image below is of Silver Cascade in Crawford Notch along Route 302 in New Hampshire.
I’d love to tell you how hard I worked to hike in for this shot, and what it took to haul my camera bag and tripod in. But, I’d be lying. You can park along Route 302 and take this shot from the safe side of the guardrail.
This image was made with a Fuji S9000, 1/80s @ f7.1, ISO 80, in Fuji’s raw file format. Yes, I used my tripod and a cable release!
Processing was done in Perfect Photo Suite 9.5, and it was cropped to a 1:2 format to remove the gray sky and rocks in the foreground. It’s amazing what a simple crop can do!
There’s another image of Silver Cascade taken at about the same location in the gallery, but I left that in its’ original format so you can crop it yourself.
If all of this makes you think about a last minute trip to New England to check out the foliage, here are two posts from 2014 to check out:
And, if you can’t make it, do the next best thing and shop Laughing Frog Images.
