It's about a year since my wife and I got started in the hobby of photography -- actually we started October last year -- and so I just didn't want to miss out on the fall colors and capture as much as I can.

I went to Winding Hills County Park in Montgomery, where families go boating and fishing in the summer, to take these pictures. The pictures were taken about 5 minutes past sunset.

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#2)


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Thank you for looking. C&C welcome.

very nice.
#1 looks like I want to walk right into the picture and have a seat and I really like the compositions of #2 and #3 with the boat foregrounds, reflected foliage backgrounds.
I would have never guessed #2/3 were past sunset.

Thank you, csd, for your kind thoughts and comments. I was, as usual, late for the sunset .

#4) This picture shows the subjects in both #2 and #3 together. While taking this picture I was aware of the big garbage can near center and considered recomposing. I knew I could not clone out an object of such mass later in Photoshop. But remembering my philosophy in life that garbage cans are our friends, I decided to shoot anyway.

Really like your first picture the most... very good work. Nice, very nice composition.

Ned

Your shots are always so stunning!

Lovely shots. Like them all.

Best regards/Daniel

#2 in the first series is my favorite. Nice composition of the upturned boats against the trees and nearly still lake.

Thanks, all, for the kind words.

Ned, there's actually a boat with people on it in #1. It appears as a blue-gray blur on the far right.

Subhs, I appreciate it that you find my shots good. There was a time they weren't. At the time I thought they were flawless and worth building a gallery around for but people here found all kinds of flaws. Still I persisted and now I enjoy taking pictures a whole lot more.

Daniel, it was fast getting dark so I managed to take only a few shots. I wanted to take pictures of the path that leads to the lake. The lake actually makes a dramatic appearance when you come out of the tunnel-like winding path darkened by a dense canopy of trees. All of a sudden you see light at the end of the tunnel and right before you is the lake.

jelpee, there's another boat to the right of #2 with people on it. I tried not to aim my camera at them (to give them privacy) but the boat in #1 paddled into my frame. Maybe they wanted me to take a picture of them .

Sounds cool! Hope you get another shot at it some other time.

Best regards/Daniel

really good - I agre that #1 is the favorite for me.