I haven’t taken inventory, but I am pretty sure we’re drawing near the end of the foliage images for 2016…unless I make a quick trip south.
Today’s photograph was captured on the way out after taking the image I posted yesterday. By this time, the sun was up above the trees and the sky was no longer pale but a nice blue filled with interesting clouds. Relatively calm water made for a fairly clear reflection.
It was a nice lazychange this morning-sleeping an extra hour. Poor Bentley’s feeding time was off all day though. His stomach was still on DST.
Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
Was that taken with your super-wide?
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16-35 so not the superest wide but close to it.
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I brought the 16–35 along on my current trip but have ended up not using it much.
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So just ballast against the winds.
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A little more than just ballast (and extra strainer of my back from the additional weight in my camera bag). My mainstay landscape lens, the 24–105, has been acting strange at times. I think the image stabilizer is intermittently malfunctioning and I wanted a backup wide-angle lens with me in case the other one became unusable.
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Do you use CPS? http://www.cps.usa.canon.com/about_cps/about.shtml I had a similar problem with my 300 f/4 a few years back and sent it in to them. Works like a charm since. My 5D Mark II goes in twice a year for postage only.
My mainstay is the 24-70 and it’s a boat anchor compared to the 16-35 Mark II. Not sure what the Mark I weighs though.
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You mentioned CPS once before and got me intrigued. I haven’t acted on it yet but may do so after we return.
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As you can see, there is a free silver level. I chose the gold program.
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That’s a nice cloud sandwich. I’m surprised you still had fall color so late that far north.
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This was on 10/17, Steve, as was yesterday’s. There is still some color here. I haven’t been out for photography all weekend. Took a holiday from it so to speak, but the Holyoke Range is peaking as we speak. So even in November there is foliage to enjoy.
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We’ll be in west Texas in a couple of days and I’m hoping there’s still some fall color left in Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
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I hope so too.
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Sometimes, the clouds provide a point of commonality between landscapes even when all the other elements (fall color, water, etc.) differ. I was looking through some photos from my 2013 trip to Kansas today, and there’s one that shows clouds so similar to these I had to go back for another look when I saw yours.
I love the “X marks the spot” effect of clouds and reflection, with the autumn color right in the middle.
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Skies, for photography at least, are so much better with some clouds. Without them I doubt I would have stopped to make this photograph. Of course, in this case they are in the water too which is even better. Every sky differs from day to day, but if we are out there often enough there is some repetition on a similarity level…near or far.
I consciously placed the foliage as near to center as possible while maintaining as much of the cloud mirror image as I could. The reflection did change the perspective a little.
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