A Kodachrome Day

[Bill Markwick]

Last week I went for a walk through Toronto's huge High Park. The autumn light was just spectacular - everywhere I looked, it was a Kodachrome slide. Fortunately my FZ20 thought so too.

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The parks department always puts a beautiful floral display at the entrance, but they don't put up signs to tell you what you're looking at. Whatever these are, they're certainly gorgeous.

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Deeper into the woods and the trees have formed a canopy overhead. Shafts of sunlight are coming through small openings and lighting everything up like a stage set. This looks like fill flash, but it's natural light.

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The little chatterbox red squirrel heads down for a peanut, growling and scolding all the way.

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The everpresent chickadees never turn down a free peanut or two.

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The squirrels are getting fat, which they'll need for the upcoming lean months.

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The chipmunks are getting scarce, but a few are still around, accepting handouts to store in their burrows.

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And back to the entrance again. I couldn't pass up the chance to shoot these leaves bathed in that wonderful fall light.

Regards,
Bill
Panasonic FZ20, Vivitar 285HV and a second mortgage worth of peanuts.

[Phill D]

Nice series of photographs and lovely colours Bill. Do you underexpose slightly to get the colours like that on the FZ20. That is what I've tended to do -1/3 usually or -2/3 sometimes. Oh bye the way I can see these shots! I'll have to go back & look at the others to see if they've appeared now.

[Phill D]

Nope the other wildlife laffs still didn't work :confused:

[Bill Markwick]

Nice series of photographs and lovely colours Bill. Do you underexpose slightly to get the colours like that on the FZ20. That is what I've tended to do -1/3 usually or -2/3 sometimes. Oh bye the way I can see these shots! I'll have to go back & look at the others to see if they've appeared now.

Thanks, Phill. Yes, I usually underexpose in bright light by 2/3 EV.

As for the missing Laffs #2, that's a real mystery. I checked the URLs by copying them and pasting them into Explorer, and they show up fine. I have no idea what's going on with those and why you can't see them.

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Try clicking on that and see if you get a photo of a chipmunk shaking sand off its coat.

Regards,
Bill

[Phill D]

Now I'm really confused :confused: . I tried looking at this forum at work today. Usually there are lots of images I can see at home but that don't download at work due to the local network security settings, however, all your images showed up Bill & great they were too. I still can't get them at home though!!! More detective work still to do I think.

[Dawoofo]

Wow Bill, what a great series you have there. :)