Autumn in the City

Montreal
A view from Belvedere Kondiaronk (Kondiaronk Lookout), Parc Mont Royal,
Montreal Quebec, Canada.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D; Lens: Canon EF-24-105mm f/4.0L IS USM; f/11.0 @ 1/350 sec; ISO 1000; Focal length: 47mm

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Another Good Year

2016 was another good year for me on RedBubble. I had a total of 93 images receive a combined total of 228 features. So I thought I'd take the time today to post my five most featured images on RedBubble in 2016.

My most featured image in 2016 on RedBubble with fourteen features was this image of the iconic Canadian tour boat, Maid of the Mist, at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Into the Mist

My second most featured image with eight features was a digital painting of Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Indian Harbour - painted

My third most featured image with seven features was a digital painting created from original photo taken at the Ammonoosuc River in Littleton, New Hampshire, USA.

Autumn on the Ammonoosuc

Coming in at fourth place with seven features is this digital painting of Autumn along Lake Ontario at Glenora, Prince Edward County, Ontario

Autumn by the Lake

Fifth place actually has a tie as both images also have seven features each. The first is a digital painting created from an original photo taken looking west along Ste Catherine street at McGill College avenue – Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

On you Mark - Painted

The final entry here is an image of a miniature rose photographed at the Montreal Botanical Gardens, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. If Yellow means Friendship, and Red means Love, a red tinged yellow rose must mean ‘More than Friends’.

More than friends

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Autumn path

Autumn path

A path in Coaticook Gorge Park, located in Coaticook, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada.
Applied an Orton effect to the original image.

Camera: Canon EOS 5D; Lens: Canon EF-24-105mm f/4.0L IS USM f/4.5 @ 1/60 sec; ISO: 800; focal length: 47mm
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Along de la Commune

Along de la Commune

Tree-lined rue de la Commune in Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Digital painting created from original photo using Dynamic Auto-Painter x64 Pro (Monet AOP) with additional processing (contrast, enhanced saturation) in PaintShop Pro v9
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Glorious Red

Burning Bush (Euonymous alatus)

Every year around this time, I go off with my camera to try and find glorious Fall colours. This year was no exception. For me, what makes the colours glorious is an abundance of red.


Red leaves

So this year, off I went into Montreal and headed up to Parc Mont Royal. To be honest, it was less than impressive. Even Beaver Lake was being drained.

But all was not lost. Here and there, there were reds to be found.
Sometimes a solitary Maple . . .

Red Maple leaves

Sometimes it was a building detail . . .

Public building at Beaver Lake - Mont Royal

Sometimes it was Ivy on a fence . . .

Ivy on fence at Notre Dame des neiges cemetery

Or growing up a wall . . .

Ivy on a crypt at Notre Dame des neiges cemetery

And then there are the bushes . . .


Red bushes

While there may not have been an abundance of Glorious colours out there this year, if you looked carefully, you could still find some.

Hope you enjoyed the images.

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Montreal's Mont Royal Park

Montrealers are very lucky in having a very large and beautiful park - Mont Royal Park - just minutes from the downtown core.



Mont Royal Park
Took a walk through Mont Royal in Mid October last year. It was just past the peak for the Fall colours. Everywhere you turned you saw gorgeous oranges, reds and golds.


Beaver lake - Mont Royal Park
Beaver Lake looked like something out of fairytale; the bright sunny day making every- thing glow.

It doesn't matter what day of the week or which season, there are always people strolling about, enjoying the peace and quiet, appreciating the beauty of nature.






Hope you've enjoyed visiting Mont Royal Park with me. I'll save a few images for another day.

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Other photos taken on this outing can be seen in my Fall Foliage Walkabout Parc Mont Royal - 17 October 2008 gallery.

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Visiting New England in the Fall

                             Littleton, New Hampshire


              Mt. Washington Hotel, Rte 302,
              Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
Back around Canadian Thanksgiving (Columbus Day in the US), Marilyn & I decided to take a trip down to Old Orchard Beach in Maine.
The weather was nice when we left Greenfield Park. We stopped in Littleton, New Hampshire for lunch and discovered the beautiful scene depicted in the top image.


 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire
But the moment we approached the White Mountains, the sky became dull grey. (I've often told Marilyn that the clouds on top of Mount Washington were to hide the activities of the Aliens that relocated there from Area 51.)

Here are a few photos taken in New Hampshire and Vermont as we traveled to and from Old Orchard Beach:








Other photos taken on the trip can be seen in my Trip to Old Orchard Beach, Maine - October 2008 gallery.

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Coaticook Gorge Park

Standing on the Suspension Bridge
One of many attractions in Quebec's Eastern Townships is Coaticook Gorge Park located within the town of Coaticook. A little over 2 hours drive from Montreal, it was quite overcast the morning we headed out.

Traveling along Autoroute 10 you could see the start of some beautiful fall colours, especially when we past by Mont Orford


The Park has many hiking trails, cycling paths and even horseback riding trails. There is camping in the Summer and Snow-shoeing and Cross-country skiing in the winter.

The day we visited, we stayed to the marked trail along the Coaticook river, over the suspension bridge and back along the other side of the river to where we started. We also visited the the camping area. I took a steep hike to where there were suppose to be waterfalls. I did find some small cascades. Suspect they might be a bit more impressive during the Spring run off.

Here are a few photos taken along our walk.








Other photos taken that day can be seen in my Day trip to Coaticook Gorge Park - 29 September 2008 gallery.

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