Capturing the Art of Nature
Roberts Line and Port Bruce (day 6)
A short day revisiting some regular spots
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Ontario Adventures
2019
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It was a cloudy morning though the sun was bright it wasn’t the best day for colour shots. Still, I wanted to get out and see some sights lest I while away my time and not find anything while in Port Stanley. I was tired of the same old-style photos so this trip I was determined to look for some new aspects to the old scenes and with that in mind I set out for one of my favourite spots – Roberts Line. It isn’t far from the Inn and so I made quick time to the first location on the road. The clouds were hiding the sun enough so that the colours were quite muted, but I stopped to try to eke out a few images.
I gathered a few across some fields and then concentrated on a small pond that has colourful trees surrounding it. It really was still quite pretty despite the lack of bright sun. I found the weeds along the roadside to have some interesting appeal to them and I ended up taking a number of photos of the weeds. They really were quite colourful in their own right. Done with the pond area, I continued east heading towards Jamestown where I found a few large trees along the road that were in full colour.
The Jamestown area had a very lovely forest across the fields which offered lots of photos. I was actually more interested in the weeds in the field between me and the trees. The trees offered some nice back drop to the weeds, but my main interest was actually the field. I continued along the road and stopped next at the beach in Port Bruce. Here the colour was in the distance but the grass alongside the shoreline was interesting and offered some nice textures against the distant colour. I found a few pieces of driftwood that caught my eye and I tried a number of angles with it as my focal point. The wind was blowing so the grass wasn’t great for close-ups but I was able to get a few shots that caught my imagination.
By now noon had come and gone and the clouds were getting thicker, what had started as a bright overcast day had become a dull one. So, I figured it was time to head back and enjoy a few hours of reading and rest while I watched the activity in the harbor. I did feel I found some alternate interests to the basic tree picture so in the end the day worked out well.