Fall waterscapes close to home

We always get inundated with a ton of rain (and wind!) during the fall season, and it generally takes the best of the leaves along with it. I am happy that I nailed some nice captures this year as the season is quickly waning. After the recent heavy rains where a good 80 - 100mm of water drenched us, I knew the rivers would be overflowing - why not captures something local that has the potential to be spectacular? The MacKay's Falls were magnificent.

I was able to shoot very early before the sun got out, and didn't have to stop the lens so far down to get these files. D80 and both VR zooms.

The amazing Nikon D50 and fall colors

I have had my "new" D50 for almost two weeks, it has been a very pleasant ownership experience so far. I have yet to use it for its original intent, that is to shoot some real estate listings, but my time will come. The colors from the old horse seem to be perfect, very little if any PP is done with the RAW files.

I had my usual desk duty shift in Mahone Bay, this morning, I wanted to capture the brilliance of what the town offers in the autumn season. I know there is the ongoing scarecrow festival for the month of October plus lots of other displays - despite the frigid temperature and wind (is winter really that far away?), I happily nailed these captures using the 16-85mm VR. It's just too bad the D50 cannot use a larger-capacity SD card, it is limited to only 2GB. Oh well.