A couple more from my morning at Wildwood Lake. These Canada Geese were coming in for a landing in the area I was standing. If I learned one thing it was that I need much more practice panning with flying birds and that my fingers need to move much quicker when making adjustments to the aperture and shutter speed. Something to work on before my winter trip to Florida.
In the last couple of weeks I have driven around Cumberland County numerous times with the intent to photograph fall colors. There had to be many beautiful locations out there but either I didn't find them or just didn't have a creative eye for it. I did get one that I liked very much, this was taken last Monday in Penn Township just off Route 174. Each year I say I am going to photograph the fall colors, this year I really made an effort maybe next year will be the year. By the way I went past here earlier in the week and the leaves are all off the trees and the corn has been picked making it look nothing like ti does in this photograph.
Not only can I come up with nothing to say in the post I could not even come up with a title for today's post. Just a mallard giving me something to photograph recently at Wildwood Lake in Harrisburg. 
To many Elk posts leaves me speechless. I do not know if it is the same cow but they were both taken the same day in the same area, one in the morning and the other in the evening. Not to worry I will switch things up on Thursday and post something other than Elk, maybe. 
By now you should have guessed that there would be more Elk post. If you want to see something else contribute money to my get away and take other photos fund drive. Actually there is not a fund drive yet, but I can start one if anyone wants to donate. Lets see I would like to go to Canada, back to Alaska and Yellowstone, Maine and I could go on but I don't think it will help.
The top photo seems to warm for me but it was shot late evening with the sun coming right over my shoulder and everything was glowing gold that evening so it really is what we were seeing. With the golden yellow colors I did not know how to post process it. I kept going back and changing it over and over again until I got to the point that I felt happy with it. Of course now that I look at it I am not happy with it and felt I made it worse. Now I do not know if it looks green or yellow, I just know it is messed up. The video last 32 seconds and shows a calf eating while the cow grooms it, there is the occasional bugling in the background. If it looks a little strange it is because it was shot in fairly dense fog the last morning I was there.
It is Tuesday so don't forget to visit Shane's site for a new post.
This was the largest bull we seen during the rut in Benezette. This guy was an 8X9 and appeared to be the most dominant bull and had the largest herd of cows during the rut. For me he was not the most attractive bull there, my vote would go to the old one I featured on a video a couple of weeks ago with the tired bugle. If this guy looks familiar, check the new blog header I put up last Sunday.
I set out the other week to photograph some fall colors, in doing so I learned one very important thing. Don't quit my day job. I live in a beautiful area and could not visualize any images, I apparently have no creative abilities. But then I already knew that. The first photo is a view of Huntsdale, Pa. from the top of Kings Gap, click the photograph for a much larger view.
Same bull again even taken the same day as yesterdays post except they caught my eye for a different reason. Some of you may have heard of Hartford Insurance. As a child growing up in the fire service they were big in making children's fire helmets with their logo on the front piece. It was always a large bull Elk. I had many different ones as a child and must have thrown them all in the trash at sometime. Now I wish I would have kept them. The first photos reminds me of them.
Wow! after all the Elk post from Benezette during the rut it is getting harder and harder to come up with something to type. This is the same bull taken the same morning just different poses and different backgrounds. Most of what I had been posting were close up shots but I came across these in my files that included some of the background and I was drawn to them so here they are. 
Like the Ruffed Grouse from last week, these are not the best of photographs but I wanted to post something other that Elk again today. Also like the Ruffed Grouse, these were taken while on Mason Hill Road but on the way up the hill. I had high expectation of seeing many whitetails and turkeys during my trip north for the Elk rut. Of course I only seen one flock of turkeys and a few whitetail does. On the bright side the Elk watching was pretty good. Before I forget this is Tuesday and that means visit Shane's blog for a new post.
