2020 has been a mess. But, Mother Nature threw us a bone with some of the best fall colours in years. Not only were the colours brilliant but they seemed to last forever. Chalk it up to a perfect mix of weather conditions over the past few months, I guess.
With all that colour around us, you’d think it would be easy to capture some great photos. I sort of found it hard. Too much of a good thing, perhaps. I want an overcast sky. I want very recent rain to enhance the colour saturation. I’m not a fan of wind. Mist and fog would be nice, as well, but those seem to be hard to come by lately.
This past week, I was able to get away from a couple short photo walks close to home. In the gallery, the water shots are from the Pine River, along the Bruce Trail at Pine River Provincial Fishing Area. The non-water shots are from Monora Park in the Town of Mono, on the outskirts of Orangeville, Ontario.
2020 Fall Colours Image Gallery
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Pine River Along Bruce Trail In Autumn [Video]
This video was taken on the trip to Pine River and shows scenes matching the photos above. This is a beautiful, peaceful river but can be hard to capture due to the densely packed shoreline cedars and the steep but short banks.
About The Visit To Pine River
Pine River Provincial Fishing Area is located about 30 kilometres north of Orangeville, Ontario. It features a dammed up section of the river and the Bruce Trail winds through. This is a non-operating park so there are no facilities. There are two rough parking lots at either end of the dammed up section.
If you want to witness man’s constant battle with beavers, this is the place. The west end (upstream) goes through a constant transformation as beaver dams are built then taken down.
We go to this spot often. It’s a peaceful place to just hang out in nature and get away from the crowds. This visit was primarily meant to give the 30 year old motorhome a bit of exercise. We have not used it often this summer and it certainly needs a good run every so often.
The sky was mostly without clouds so I didn’t expect to do much photography. However, the river was mostly still in the shade of the Niagara Escarpment so I came away with what I could.
As a side note, as I found out the next morning, I came away with a bit of an Achilles strain. Standing on the rocks in awkward positions for fairly long periods of time while capturing the photos and video seemed to take its toll on my ankle. Such are the photography related injuries we must endure…
About The Visit To Monora Park
On the northern edge of Orangeville, Ontario is a bit of a hidden gem. Monora Park is tucked just far enough highway 10 to not capture the attention of tourists heading up to the hotspots in Collingwood, Sauble and the Bruce Peninsula.
In the winter months, access is closed to all – unless you’re on cross country skis. For the rest of the year, the hills and dense forest take you to a peaceful place that more fits the Algonquin region than the southern tip of Dufferin County.
I finally got my rain and overcast skies. I had about an hour of free time before the sun went down. Monora is about five minutes from my house and I knew the leaves on the trails would be nothing sort of awesome.
What I found was that the leaves that had already fallen were mostly the stars of the show. I think that that’s something that is taken for granted in the autumn. When the leaves have come off the trees, their beauty remains on the ground even after the first snow flies.
Again, some mist or fog would have helped the mood and drama of the photos but that stuff has been at a bit of premium in this area this summer.
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