Bill Smith's Photography

 Jo-Anne and peeled off from the group after lunch Saturday and went for a hike in Limberlost Nature Preserve, one of my favourite happy places. We chose a shorter hike around Clear and Turtle Lakes but the network is designed as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" and scale up to a really long hike if you wanted to. We both are introverts by nature and need some downtime from the crowd.  I also had a chance to shoot with my Nikon AF-D 20 F2.8 prime lens, it's almost an essential for landscape photography as you can tell with the last few images. The F100 was the perfect camera to roll with while hiking, easy to use and you still have the sophisticated matrix metering system sort of 80% of an F5 without the heavy chassis.  As you can tell we were two weeks early for fall colours in the Northern Muskokas and Algonquin Highlands. You roll with what you have and enjoy the early fall day.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 250D, ECN-2 proc...

 Limberlost, that word just brings me to the thoughts of peaceful hikes through the forests of Northern Muskoka, it was also Jo-Anne's first time here, and she loved it. We've done the Solitaire Loop once and Buck Lake twice on different occasions so we tried a new trail around Clear and Turtle Lakes.  The landscapes in the fall never get old for me and it was a fun hike this year. We only looped around both lakes, I do want to take different trails that take you deeper into the forest. I do plan to run with a lighter kit next year. As much as lugging a Nikon F5 and F2AS around, that ain't a light combo. I plan to go back to strictly manual focus and maybe Olympus OM to save weight. We'll see.  Camera: Nikon F5, Nikon AF-D28-105 F3.5-4.5 and 70-210 F4-5.6 Zoom Lenses.  Film: Lomo 400 C-41.