We have a batch of photos, sans captions, from reader Roger Lambert, who does give an introduction (indented below). His words are indented:
We just had a bit of a heat wave this past week in Vermont, so I have some photos for your consideration of Vermont’s rivers and lakes to cool folks off.
Looking east over Lake Champlain at sunset from a cabin we rented with friends.
Looking southwest into sunset from Burlington Waterfront which has a marina.
Looking due west from SandBar State park on Lake Champlain with heavy fog rolling in:
Looking north, also from SandBar park at shoreline along South Hero. New York State is about ten miles to the west:
View of the Otter Creek as it passes through the center of Middlebury, Vt.:
View to the west at sunset with dock, from a (different) rental property on Lake Champlain:
View of a perennially flooded section of a wildlife preservation area just south of SandBar State park. This was a set-up shot for focus and composition at dusk. I wanted to to take a long-exposure picture illuminated by moonlight after dark, but as i waited in the dark for the moon, I heard an animal with fairly heavy footsteps coming towards me on the shore. I got the heck out of Dodge!:
iew of the LaMoille River from just north of Cambridge, VT. According to Google: “The name “LaMoille” is famously considered a geographical accident. Early French explorers originally named the waterway La Mouette (River of the Gulls) due to the abundance of shorebirds, but a mapmaker famously forgot to cross the “T”s, leaving La Mouelle—which eventually morphed into Lamoille”. There is a home about twenty feet to the right out of picture on that outcropping of rock – an exciting place to live!:
View looking west directly into the sunset on Arrowhead Mountain Lake in East Georgia, Vt. This is an HDR image using seven different exposures in Photoshop before it could be done automatically. It was about a 25-step process to set up exposure gradients, and at one point required pressing four keys simultaneously. And it didn’t work! Later, I discovered that there was a typo in my instructions, and when I pressed tyhose four keys, and it worked, I let out a war whoop so loud that my wife rushed in thinking I was having a heart attack.:
Gorgeous and intriguing… the water flow is especially artistically striking …
A very pretty collection! Thank you!
A very nice selection, Roger. Thanks.
What pretty places!
Lovely photos! No need for commentary….
I feel cooler already! We’re having a Heat Advisory day here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the second consecutive day of 80 degree-plus heat. (That’s what constitutes a heat wave around here. Yes. They’ve been calling it a heat wave.) Tomorrow the temp will go back to the low 70’s, where I like it. Your pictures are having the desired cooling effect. The air conditioning is helping, too!
Thank you for the lovely pictures.
These are all lovely! Clearly taken with a very artistic eye.
These are excellent Roger. I took the liberty of tweeting them out.
I’ve really got to drive up there one of these days. I’ve never been.
D.A.
NYC 🗽
Nice pics from a great part of the Northeast. One question, though: the first pic, showing sunset looking east . . . was the vantage point a small island?
I can’t remember exactly where the cabin was, but it was not a small island. It was on the east side of either South Hero, Grand Isle, or North Hero, which are all rather large connected islands in Lake Champlain; they stretch about 10 miles to 30 miles north of Burlington.