Hirtle's Beach Sunset Gold

Hirtle's Beach

Kingsburg, NS

Oct. 10, 2013

I was looking for waves but all I found was this amazing sunset.  What a rip off! ;-)

Mountain Ash Mayhem Continues

 Lower Rose Bay, NS

Sept. 7, 2013

  Lower Rose Bay, NS

Sept. 7, 2013

 Lower Rose Bay, NS

Sept. 7, 2013

To be honest, I have no idea where Lower Rose Bay ends and Kingsburg/Upper Kingsburg begins.  At any rate, this one is on the road from Rose Bay to Kingsburg, close to the turn off to Upper Kingsburg.

Gorgeous!

Mother of Mountain Ash (American)

 Kingsburg, NS

Sept. 7, 2013

 Kingsburg, NS

Sept. 7, 2013

Not sure if it's a Rose Bay/Kingsburg thang, but there are tons of gorgeous American Mountain Ash trees showing off their red berries right now.  I have started to photograph my faves.  Stay tuned for more in the days/weeks to come!

If this piques your interest in the trees around you, check out this handy guide to identifying trees of the Acadian Forest.

Kingsburg Kloud

Kingsburg, NS

Aug. 23, 2013

Interesting light on this 'spaceship of a cloud' spotted at sunset.  

I love the light blue against the pink and darker blue/grey in the background.

Still more Kingsburg clouds

Another stellar afternoon on the road to Hirtle's Beach.

More Kingsburg Clouds

Shot last weekend on the Hirtle's Beach Road.

Romkey Pond Sunset

Yet another idyllic Kingsburg sunset with Romkey Pond in the foreground.

Kingsburg setting sun

I spotted this scene in Lower Kingsburg as I returned home from a Saturday afternoon surf session.

On Hirtle's (Hartling) Pond

To auto white balance or not autowb...that is the question. What say you readers?

I like the colour and contrast of the grass in the autowb shot, but I like the colour/contrast of the sky and clouds in the non-autowb shot. I'm thinking the non-autowb image is 'truer' to the conditions at the time...

Any comments, post processing workflow suggestions are appreciated:

Raw => UFRAw (auto exposure adjustment) => GIMP (levels adj., autowb, crop, resize, export to *.jpg)

Raw => UFRAw (auto exposure adjustment) => GIMP (levels adj., crop, resize, export to *.jpg)

Kingsburg sunset

After catching some waves, I caught the setting sun in Lower Kingsburg, looking at Kings Bay in the distance.