I've been going on little hikes before work, out in Rouge Park.
The morning fall light is spectacular. I fell in love with the little ravine walk, with it's little stream and tall eclipsing trees. Fall light is my favourite light. White and crisp but still warm.
Anyways. Pictures do most of the talking. <3
-Andrea
The Half-Assed Hobbyist
This past thanksgiving we had the BF's (or I guess Fiancé now! FF for Fancy Fiancé?) sister down from Ottawa. More on the meal in a future post, but here I wanted to share the amazing walk we all went on in the Don Valley, ET Seton Park.
I've lived in Toronto for over a year now and it has been the toughest year of my life. Struggling with making friends and finding work and personal health problems, last year I missed the entirety of Ontario's Amazingly Beautiful fall. Not this year! No way.
Coming from Alberta, fall is Very brief, if not just a winter hick-up, rather than an entire season to itself. But here I am Blown Away by the colour and the warmth and the general Fall-iness of, well, the Fall. I've never seen so many red and yellow and green leaves mixed in together. And for so long! It's week three of gorgeous fall colours and weather! It's inspiring to see nature getting ready to go out, in style.
Anyway, enough with my gush over leaf colours. I'll leave the pictures to do that for me. But I did want to have one final gush over a butterfly. I saw my first Monarch butterfly in almost 20 years on this walk. When I was a kid in the 90s we used to get Monarch caterpillars at school and let them chrysalis in a shoe box, out of harms way. That was the last time I saw a real live Monarch butterfly. So I know fall is supposed to be the end of the growing season but for me it's like the beginning of something new. <3
(Unintentional third gush about seasons. It happened.... =P)
-Andrea
The Half-Assed Hobbyist
Photography is one of those hobbies that I say I do but really have no idea about. So basically, just like every other hipster with an iPhone, I too have succumbed to the taking of kinda pretty pictures and then filtering them through instagram, etc and calling myself a 'photographer'. I do actually have a pretty decent Nikon D80 that I also use (-plea of credibility-).
My uncle gave me the old D80 a couple years ago when he upgraded to a new camera. I've read the manual, although it's incredibly confusing to a beginner, and learned about focal points and the different lens capabilities. It was all very math-y, which is fine by me.
I supposed more than anything, I like taking pictures of light. Especially fall light. It ranges so much since Alberta is relatively far north; from pale white in the morning to syrup golden in the evenings.
Really though, photography is about the pictures. So see them above!
-Andrea
The Half-Assed Hobbyist