I’ve unfortunately lost the email that came with these lovely photos by James Blilie, but since they’re fall and landscape shots, I don’t think we’re missing too much information. Perhaps he can comment (or email me) to fill this lacuna—especially the locations (as I recall, he lives in the state of Washington).
In the meantime, these photos can serve as an elegy for the summer past.
While I’m posting unidentified photos, here are two photographs that I’ve saved under the rubric “Walkingmap CJ,” and again I can’t find an email with identifying information. I recall that the first shows a panorama in the Rocky Mountains, with the Continental Divide running from the lower left thought the valley in the middle, as well as some nearby lichens. If you contributed these photos, please add information in the comments or send me an email:
These are gorgeous photos. And it may be prudent for you to reset your email password.
Top photo: Mount Adams (Washington state, looking due north from the south) showing the smoke from the Cougar Creek fire, August 2015.
Second one: The next morning, sunrise through the smoke (wind had shifted from due westerly to almost due north.)
Third, fourth, and 7th and 8th: Fall foliage from around our residential neighborhood. It was a long, moist, warmish fall, and we had extended fall colors.
5th and 6th: Fall colors in NE Wisconsin (go Packers!).
Equipment: Olympus OM-D E-M10 micro 4/3 camera (I’ve switched from APS-C DSLR to mirroless and I love it). Crop factor is 2.0.
Various lenses:
Olympus 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 EZ
Lumix 7-14mm f/4.0
Lumix G Vario 100-300mm F/4.0-5.6
(One of the things I love about the micro 4/3 is that you can use lenses from any maker on your camera.)
Thanks! Sorry I lost your email.
No worries! 🙂
I have been curious about the mirrorless cameras. The first I had heard of them was from a guy who was selling me a lens for my camera. What are the advantages of them?
Much, much smaller and lighter than “traditional” DSLRs, and more or less the same functionality (or better!) This is the big draw. (I got really tired of lugging my big rig around on vacation this past summer.)
The Olympus E-M10 has a 16Mpx sensor that is very up to date for technology.
It has in-body image stabilization. There is a viewfinder (it’s electronic and takes a little getting used to) and also has the LCD screen that you can use to frame the photo and the screen tilts for both above head and next to the ground shooting (this is great of shooting over crowds or discretely shooting sideways for candids.) Fast frame rate. Works just like a “traditional” DSLR.
You can use lenses from other manufacturers with no adapters required.
The big thing is really size and weight. I have the same capabilities I had with my APS-C DSLR rig, but at about 1/5 the weight and 1/3 the bulk (no kidding).
Plus the stuff costs less.
Everything from (35mm equivalent) from 14mm (very wide!) to 600mm (decently long) in a package that is about the size of an old-style American lunch box and weighs something like 3-4 pounds. And this includes 5 lenses (8mm fisheye, 7-14mm wide, 14-42mm walk-around, 45mm f/1.8 portrait lens, 100-300mm tele.).
The disadvantage? The sensor is smaller — it’s 1/2 of a 35mm frame in size.
But, doing pixel-peeping on the computer shows no issues, as far as I’m concerned. I could confidently print at 20 X 30 inches (50 X 75 cm) and I do regularly print at 13 X 19 inches (33 X 48 cm). And they look great, nice and sharp, great contrast, color, general IQ.
I’ve heard quite a few people bemoan (or denigrate) the smaller digital formats (such as micro 4/3) as “less than optimal” or similar comments.
I simply point to the history of photography, which has clearly been, as soon as flexible films came around) to reduce the size of the film format as much as possible, given the available technology of film and lenses (to get “sharp enough” images).
8X10 plates and films to
5X7 to 4X5 to
6cm roll film to
35mm roll film to, now,
sensors smaller than 35mm frame
The micro 4/3 stuff I have now blows the doors off the 35mm film stuff I had in the 1970s-1990s.
Brilliant pictures!! I particularly love the snow-covered mountain peak being a snow worshiper. And the colours are amazing!!
Absolutely lovely. The fall landscape over the lake just needs a misty mountain in the background and a trail to a little cabin, and it would look like a Bob Ross painting.
Readers may be interested in this –
Why are autumn leaves mostly yellow in Europe and red in North America?
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/22/why-are-autumn-leaves-yellow-in-europe-red-in-north-america
Cool – thanks for sharing that!
Beautiful, James! Especially likin’ the lichen.
The lichen shot is from “Walkingmap CJ”. I really like it too!
Maybe he/she will weigh in here and take credit.
I bemoan the rise of wildfires around the world (yet another AGW indicator) but they can make for some dramatic photos.
All great photos of exploding color! And you know there just has to be wildlife hidden among the trees.
Missed this when it first was posted–beautiful photos, James!