Autumn abstract

On the first day of October, I was in Banff National Park and found great fall colors across the Bow Valley.  I returned to Hillsdale Meadow along the Bow Valley Parkway where I expected the larch would be showing their best golds and yellows. I wasn’t disappointed!  For this image, I used a slow shutter to abstract the landscape similar to how I had done with the same stand of trees in July.  I moved the camera downwards during the 1/40th of a second exposure to exaggerate the vertical lines present in the golden trees and echoed in the evergreens in the mountainside behind.

13 responses

  1. p. grover's avatar
    p. grover

    many thanks….love the colour and effect you’ve achieved…better than a painting! P. Grover.

    October 21, 2017 at 12:24 pm

  2. This looks amazing!😍

    October 20, 2017 at 11:12 pm

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    October 19, 2017 at 11:16 am

  4. Lovely photo and effect!

    October 19, 2017 at 10:11 am

  5. Like it very much!

    October 19, 2017 at 8:48 am

    • I’m glad – thank you for visiting. Have a great day!

      October 20, 2017 at 6:17 am

      • Welcome! You, too!

        October 20, 2017 at 7:47 am

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    Anonymous

    Beautiful

    October 19, 2017 at 8:47 am

  7. Great photo–incredible color. Did you use a slower shutter speed while panning?

    October 19, 2017 at 8:29 am

    • Thank you. I used a shutter speed of 1/40th of a second which allowed for the blurred effect when I panned the camera vertically.

      October 20, 2017 at 6:20 am

  8. I hope you do a winter version to go with summer and fall.

    October 19, 2017 at 7:44 am

    • That’s a great idea! I will likely have the opportunity to make that version soon!

      October 20, 2017 at 6:20 am

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