I haven’t had a chance to capture any fall color photos this year. I’ve just been busy with other activities. So here is a photo I took last year in northern Michigan.
Mission Point Lighthouse
I took this photo last October during our Michigan trip. You can’t see it from this photo, but Lake Michigan is just over the white fence. Anyway, this is a great spot and has some nice hiking trails through the forest and along the shore.
Michigan Autumn
I took this photo last fall during our Michigan wine trail trip. We experienced great fall colors while we were there. This cool little road is actually the exit off one of the vineyards. So many great wineries in the Traverse City area.
Chateau Chantel By Air
Here is a photo from a long, long time ago (last October….COVID time is like dog time). I took this while traveling in Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City Michigan. There are a ton of vineyards, distilleries and places that make hard cider in this area. Not to mention, it is just beautiful…rolling hills, numerous peninsulas, Lake Michigan as the backdrop, fall color and much more. It was great getting back up there, since it’s probably been over 10 years since our last visit. Much too long.
I took this photo looking down on the Chateau Chantel vineyard/winery. They have an amazing spot, and it is worth a stop. Plus, the wine is great as well.
Wine With A View
I captured this photo on our last trip to Michigan (October 2020). We visited a small handful of vineyards (all outdoor activities only at tables/chair sitting far apart) including this location. This specific winery had this unique view out the back of the building. The vineyard is called Hawthorne Vineyards, which sits on Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City.
Michigan Autumn
I took this picture as we drove through the Tunnel of Trees in Northern Michigan. I pulled over a number of times to hop out and capture some photos. I also took a bunch from the car, since it was raining during part of this drive. Anyway, I loved this house sitting back off the road.
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Loon Song Covered Bridge
Long before our recent trip to Michigan, I had found a photo of this covered bridge by northern Michigan photographer @snaphappymichigan (Heather Higham). Per my normal process, I saved the photo and cataloged it as a potential future destination…. I do this all the time when I find a unique photography spots around the world. I usually find these while scrolling through social media sites or sometimes by conducting a specific Google search. The result is a database of thousands of sample photos from hundreds of locations world-wide. That means that when I’m heading to a specific location, I can go to my database and have locations ready queued up to go explore. Often, I want to capture a photo similar to the sample photo I found from another photographer, but most often it just gives me an idea of the location allowing me to explore it looking for my own angle and perspective at a site I might otherwise never know about.
About a week before we left for this trip, my friend Karalee Kowatz shared the same photo by Heather Higham that I had saved over a year ago. Karalee has a habit of finding and sharing the best photographs from around the world on FB. So below you can see Heather’s photo and my version which I took this week.
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Heather’s photo
Tunnel of Trees
MJ and I are supposed to be in Bermuda…..but COVID messed that up, like it messed up all of 2020. So, we decided to get away regardless…. Pure Michigan it is!! We traveled the Lake Michigan coast. This photo is from inside the Tunnel of Trees which is north of Harbor Springs.
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Fall On The Trail
MJ and I went for a little hike on the Montour Trail in Washington County last weekend. I dragged my camera along, because if I didn’t there would have been an amazing shot to take without a camera. So, I carried it the entire walk and took a grand total of one photo and here it is…….
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Autumn In The Appalachian Mountains
I realize this isn’t a great photo. I took this 7 exposure auto-bracketed
set hand held and it was windy outside.
So those two factors caused some of the blur effect you see on the
image. Plus the sky was terrible
for photography. It was a bright
overcast day with little to no interesting features.
But as it turns out, I like it. Plus is reflects what it looks like in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Pennsylvania. I took this at Seven Springs Resort just prior to participating in a fund raising sporting clay shoot. I found this spot just before the clay shoot started and liked the vistas. So now you get to see it too. Plus my shooting was terrible, so I had to take something positive from the day.
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