If I were to plan a photo outing there or anywhere, I’d have brought along my Canon 6D and camera bag, which contains most of my lenses.
I've made four visits to the park since the last post, and on three of those visits I ended up taking pictures. With the iPhone. So all unplanned.
But in those several days of walks, there was a huge frustration on Sunday, Nov. 8, when I realized about a quarter-mile into the drive to the park that I'd left my iPhone at home. I could have tried to turn around and go back and get it, but if you knew the construction traffic I was facing at that point, you would understand why I elected suck it up and do without the phone for the next two hours.
It was frustrating because I wanted to pull out the phone almost immediately as I hit the Creekside Trail that day, where the landscape and dirt trail itself were covered with fallen leaves, and where batches of leaves continued to fall periodically, pushed down by a decent breeze, as I marched on my walk along the trail. I wanted badly to have been able to photograph those leaf batches in the descent.
I did make it back to the park on Nov. 9, and I took pictures on that day, but the magic of falling leaf batches was gone. The feet of trail-goers from the previous day had trampled or shuffled many of the newly fallen leaves to the side. There were a few new leaves, but nothing like I'd seen and been excited about photographing the day before.
The photo leading off the post was taken on Saturday, Nov. 7. Photos in this post were also taken on Nov. 9 and 10. They include an encounter with some geese on the pond as well as some pond reflection shots and closeups of leaves on a tree or plant and one of a pair of leaves on the primary pedestrian boardwalk.
