How About Some Music With That

How about some music with my latest imagery.
Eddie Vedder is always good. (I love his voice.)

Acoustic #1

From:
Pearl Jam Twenty Album (Sep11).

Eddie at/on
Grooveshark

Peachy Autumn Colors

Playin' around in Paint Shop Pro:

VM Toolbox Crystal Ball Filter/Plugin (Free):



VM Natural Lakeside Reflection Filter/Plugin (Free):



I love the peachy orange, gold and green leaf colors on these.

Cropped Original:



Kaleidoscope:

Pretty Colors

I'm not sure what kind of tree this was.
I thought maybe sumac, but I thought sumac leaves turned red in autumn?
Anyway, I was standing underneath it taking photos of the leaves hanging down around me.
The leaf colors were actually more muted greens and golds, but I pumped up colors and contrast and they turned rust and brilliant green.

Kaleidoscope:

Autumn Sunrise

Waiting for the coffee, looked out the window, and...
Attention!
Nature is putting on a fabulous sunrise show this morning.
Go.
Now.

East:



West:



Up:

Tall Shadows

I liked this one:


So I went out to the same area and shot more the next day, but the lighting wasn't quite the same.
More contrast, and the foregrounds were too dark, so didn't get the brilliant green grass I wanted.
(S3 Canon Point and Shoot camera.)

This next one has quite a bit of post processing, but I like it.



Here's the Original, no post processing:


What I did in Paint Shop Pro:
Lifted the Shadows 90, Midtones 50, Highlights 20
Pumped up colors: Vibrancy 20, Soft Light 50
Chromatic Aberration Removal in the sky by the sun.
Burn Brush touch up on spots that got too faded.

I'm Leavin' On a Jet Plane

I punched in "Leaving On A Jet Plane" at Grooveshark search to see if there were any versions I had never heard before.

Grooveshark
Wrong attributions here. Mostly, the ones sung by Chantal Kerviazuk are misattributed to someone else. Kerviazuk's version seems to be a popular one, but wasn't a favorite of mine. The Glee one isn't too bad. ;) The hyper version by Me First and The Gimme Gimmes makes me laugh.

Wiki
Written by John Denver in 1966.
Peter, Paul and Mary's version first appeared on their 1967 album.
In the extended version of the Glee pilot episode, the song was covered by Will Schuester, the Music teacher played by Matthew Morrison.
A cover by Chantal Kreviazuk was used in the 1998 film Armageddon and became an international hit.

I did find some new/different versions of the song I hadn't heard before.

My fav by far is the one by
Sophie Barker.

Amazon
On This Album:
Beyond The Sea, 50 Summer Classics

I really like her voice, so I did some digging.

Sophie at Wiki
Sophie at Grooveshark
Secret reminds me of Sarah Maclachlan.
(Earthbound 2005 album)

I really like:
I Sit & Hide
(Seagull 2011 album)

Back to Leaving on a Jet Plane songs.
More I hadn't heard before:

Justin Kawika Young
Amazon
It just says "Justin" like I'm supposed to know who that is?
Wiki

Songs For Sunset Album
Amazon
Grooveshark attributes to "Various Artists". Amazon says it's Tara MacLean.

Peace Love and Guitar Album
Amazon
Amazon attributes to Kenny Vehkavaara.
Kenny V Bio
Couldn't find much on the artist. From Canada. Amazon say Latin Pop and Easy Listening Pop genre.
I kinda like the whole album for mellow background music.

Fabulous Mushroom

Typically a mushroom on this same tree at the same time of year.

Simplicity

Fishin' chair on river sandbar:


Fishin':

Sand Tracks

River is low, lots of sandbars out there now.

My fav:


More:

Boat

Loved the boat water pattern on these:

Train Bridge

On the dirt bike trail.
Different views of bridge.
It was an interesting photography subject.

Full bridge view:

I like how it curves around instead of a typical straight across view.

These next few feel like aerial views, but they're not. Maybe that's why I like them.





The next one was done with telephoto zoom. We did not walk on the bridge. Signs said danger and no trespassing.

Autumn Colors On Dirt Bike Trail

Right now, it's the perfect outdoor weather.
I love the autumn sun.
I love the cool crispy mornings.
I love the colors.
Is there anything I don't absolutely adore about autumn?
I don't think so.

Nothing I like better than to wander a new outdoor trail on a cool calm clear crispy autumn morning, with my camera, of course.

The trail:


But first,
Wild turkeys:

I thought the turkeys at alert attention with their heads in different directions made it such an interesting photograph. Perfect autumn leaves background too.
This was a situation where the DSLR gave a much richer higher quality photo than my little point and shoot. Not always that vast of difference between the two.

And then the climb up the steep hill:


Biker was going down the hill:


Pretty tree:


Sunshine in the trees:



More autumn colors:

Cute Little Sparrow

I'm just going to appreciate this cute little sparrow.
And I don't even want to try and hunt down what kind it is.
Sparrows are tough to identify.

More Caterpillars

I'm sure seeing a lot of caterpillars this year at this time.

Zebra caterpillar (Melanchra picta):


Probably considered a garden pest, but I thought the patterning close-up was wonderful to look at.

bugguide
Order Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths
No Taxon Moths
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Noctuidae - Owlet Moths
Subfamily Noctuinae - Cutworm or Dart Moths
Tribe Hadenini
Genus Melanchra
Species picta - Zebra Caterpillar Moth - Hodges#10293

Another caterpillar:


I think the brown and orange one is some kind of tiger moth again?

bugguide
Order Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths
No Taxon Moths
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Arctiinae - Tiger and Lichen Moths
Tribe Arctiini - Tiger Moths

Blogged Previously:
Isabella Tiger Moth (Isia isabella)
Virginian Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica)

Clouds

More photos of clouds.

This one is a "moose" cloud:




Always fun to get the moon in the clouds: