November Freeze

November is a month that is hard to like; in fact it's my least favourite month of the year. The days are short and getting shorter. It's too cold to cycle and too soon for snow. However, looking on the bright side, walking is good and sights like this are available not far from the city centre.

Taken from the Mirador (lookout) at 2:45 in the Parc naturel du Mont-Bélair on November 8th this stream is just beginning to to freeze over while the warm afternoon light highlights the reddish vegetation of the bog.

I like! Go back to my post on September 10, 2010 for another look at this parc.

Canon 7D with 15-85mm lens at 24mm; ISO 100, 1/50sec at f/ 10

Plage Jacques Cartier after Sunset

Standard Time and the sun sets at 4:20 pm on November 7. Paulette and I were walking and shooting photos along our favourite piece of the Saint lawrence called Le parc de la Plage-Jacques-Cartier.


I took this silhouetted tree twenty minutes after the sun had set. I like the colour contrast between the cool dark blue sky and the warm salmon colour along the horizon and reflected in the water. The lamp light (which had come on just minutes before this shot) adds another dynamic element to the composition.

I took the picture in RAW mode with the white balance in the camera set to daylight (5400K). To remove the resulting overly warm colour-cast I reduced the temperature to 3400K (typical sunset value) to achieve this more faithful rendition.

For the sequence of photos leading up to this moment go to my flickr album. Hope you enjoy them.

Andrew