An Autumn Day Drive Through The Adirondack Mountains In Upstate New York

"Adirondack chairs," Blue Mountain Lake, NY (click to enlarge)
Fujifilm X-T2; 16-55mm f/2.8 lens @ 55mm; 1/125th sec. @ f/11; ISO 400

If you've never been to the Adirondack Mountains and Adirondack State Park in the fall, you are missing a real photographic treat.  Unfortunately, my wife and I were only passing through and we spent only one day driving through the woods, over the mountains, seeing small, quaint towns and adjacent to untold number of lakes.  One word describes our drive adequately—beautiful!

Of course there were tons of fall foliage photographs.  Everywhere!  By that I mean just photographs of the very colorful trees.  In some spots I swear someone plugged them in as they looked as though they actually glowed.  Amazing.  Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine have nothing on the Adirondacks.

For this post, I wanted to highlight something about the area that is a little different.  I could have posted several images of the beautiful colors of the trees but I found some other aspects equally pleasing to the eye.  I found little scenes of interest that caught my eye on our drive.  I guess my point it that even when you are surrounded by overwhelming beauty of fall foliage, there are other things to photograph.  It is very easy to be 'blinded' by the beauty surrounding you.  I'm sure that has happened to you. 

You walk up to a scene and there are so many potential photographs right before your eyes, you just don't know where to start!  The Adirondack Mountains are like that.  So, I concentrated on things other than colorful leaves.

Cabin on White Lake in the Adirondacks. (click to enlarge)
Fujifilm X-T2; 50-140mm f/2.8 lens @ 94mm; 1/80th sec. @ f/8; ISO 400

Clearing to launch small boats, White Lake, Adirondacks. (click to enlarge)
Fujifilm X-T2; 50-140mm f/2.8 lens @ 129mm; 1/500th sec. @ f/5.6; ISO 400

As I mentioned, "electric leaves", no saturation increase applied. (click to enlarge)
Fujifilm X-T2; 16-55mm f/2.8 lens @ 45mm; 1/105th sec. @ f/11; ISO 800

Well, I had to include one image showing how brilliant the leaves actually were.  The last image is as it came out of the camera.  No saturation or color increase of any kind was made.  The film simulation was Provia so that did not exaggerate colors either.  As I said, it was as though someone plugged in the trees and "turned on the leaf lights!"

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Dennis A. Mook  

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