Wazopia: The Web Blog of Jim Fisher

Barn Ivy

Labels: barn, fall, Ohio

Golden Harvest

Labels: fall, leaves

Ahhhhh! Fall in Ohio.

I love the fall in Ohio. This year's colors are terrific again like last year's.

This is the facade over the old post office in Chagrin Falls. It is now an office building.

A flag and cannon outside the town hall.

Some very hardy flowers in a box on the bridge over the Chagrin River.

An autumn display outside a shop on Main St.

A trickle of water off to the side of the main Chagrin River Falls.

Labels: Chagrin Falls, fall, Ohio

Let's look at some trees

Labels: Chagrin Falls, color, fall, leaves, tree

Let's look at some leaves

Labels: Chagrin Falls, color, fall, leaves

Some Black 'n' Whites from a Gray Day

The sky turn neutral gray yesterday. So here are some black 'n' whites to check out.

A wooden door from Gates Mills, OH.

An old well from Bentleyville, OH.

A field in Hunting Valley, OH.

All images shot with a Canon G9 camera.

Labels: black 'n' white, canon, door, fall, field, image, lightroom, Northeast, Ohio, photo, photography, picture, Powershot g9, well, winter

Red Maple Leaf

Popped this image with the LensBaby.

Labels: adobe, color, fall, leaf, leaves, lensbaby, Mesopotamia, Northeast, Ohio, photo, photography

Fall harvest(ing)

How do they get all that corn from the field? Pretty simple really.

By mid-October the corn is pretty dried out and ready to be harvested. Most of this corn is used for feed and not for human consumption.

A closeup of the corn dried up on the stalks.

The John Deere harvester on the right sweeps through the fields and processes the corn. The kernels are poured into a waiting truck.

Labels: corn, fall, field, harvester, john deere, Northeast, Ohio, photo, photography, truck, windmill

Dried out corn and stalk

Not much color in the original image so I converted to B&W using Adobe Lightroom 1.2.

Labels: adobe, canon, corn, dried, fall, lightroom, Northeast, Ohio, photo, photography, stalk

Amish Farms in Ohio

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Amish farms nearly always appear well-maintained. Here's a few scenes in nearby Geauga County. Enjoy!

Labels: adobe, Amish, barn, buggy, color, fall, farm, field, horse, image, leaf, leaves, lightroom, photo, photography

Scarlet and Grey

This image came out pretty good. Grey is the toughest color to image. No doubt some of you may wonder where the grey is in the picture. That means your monitor is calibrated differently than mine. Whatever the colors I love the swirls in the background.

Let me tell ya, at f2.0 the LensBaby is a bear to focus! To get this image I stood on a rickety picnic table and the wind was blowing the leaves.

Canon 5D, ISO 100, 1/800, f2.0, LensBaby.

Labels: 5D, canon, color, fall, leaf, leaves, lensbaby, lightroom, Northeast, Ohio, photo, photography

More leaves - I can't stop

Only another week and one of the best falls for photography will be over. Then I'll stop this craziness with leaf images.

This image was captured on Fields Rd. in Bainbridge Township, OH.

Soon it will be barren and desolate as winter sets in across Northeast Ohio. Anyone willing to pay for me to take a trip to someplace exciting? Tuscany? Morocco? Cabo?

Labels: 5D, canon, color, fall, leaf, leaves, Northeast, Ohio, photo, photography

An Amish Saturday

Amish life is simple and fun. Plenty of walking or riding on horse-drawn vehicles. Here's a few scenes in and around Mesopotamia, OH. Enjoy!

An Amish father and his sons walk along the road.

A young Amish boy pushes a scooter.

An Amish family takes a ride on a cart pulled by Shetland pony.

An Amish couple takes an afternoon stroll.

A familiar site throughout Geauga, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties are these Amish buggies.

Labels: 5D, Amish, boy, buggy, canon, fall, family, father, Geauga, horse, image, Mesopotamia, Northeast, Ohio, photo, ride, road, scooter, sons, walk

Leaves and camera

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Why do fall leaves and digital cameras go so well together? Take a look!

This grove of trees were so spectacular I almost parked in the middle of the road to shoot them. The sky looks great and with my handy polarizer filter the blue sky looks glorious.

A nice contrast of a barren tree in the foreground against a beautiful tree in the background.

Labels: 5D, blue, canon, color, fall, leaf, leaves, Northeast, Ohio, photo, road, sky, tree

The Falls at Chagrin Falls

Friday was a beautiful day in the Cleveland area. The sky was blue, the weather was mild and the leaves are lovely. I took a short stroll around the Triangle in Chagrin Falls. Enjoy!