“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” — Anonymous

Thank you for all the new views and likes from last week, it helps keep me inspired.

Little words this week. I have been tired and my creativity this week is low.

Sunday, 10/05/2025: Posted photo — Bolton Pond.

Bolton Pond off the Bolton Pond Trail on Wachusett Mountain. This is a trail that I hike on once every year or two since it is one that I find not very interesting to hike. The trail is relatively flat and hard to follow sometimes. I was a little surprised to see that the Commonwealth has done trail work and it is easier to follow.

This trail had a turn that was very wide and, if you did not know the trail, you would have wandered into the woods. The Commonwealth made a barrier at this corner to force people to stay on the trail.

Monday, 10/06/2025: Posted photo — More Progress.

Here is my weekly progress photo of the lift installation. The lift structures are almost all installed. The chairs themselves have not been installed and are still in the ski area parking lot.

Tuesday, 10/07/2025: Posted photo — Lakeside.

We went to the cottage to take out the dock on this fine fall day. The foliage is just starting and should be a peak soon.

This is the view from our cottage looking over Winnekeag Lake.

Wednesday, 10/08/2025: Posted photo — Texture of Pine.

I am testing a plant ID app that I have been using to identify trees. The app is called Seek. I used it to identify the bark of this pine tree.

Thursday, 10/09/2025: Posted photo — Slope Aspect Navigation.

When you are lost in the woods, you are taught to triangulate. The problem is, when you are lost you do not have any objects to triangulate on.

One way of locating yourself is by slope aspect or finding your location off the contour of the land. This is something I have been practicing for a while and hope to never use. If you want to know more about this technique, please leave a comment.

This is the slope that one of the lifts is at were one of the hiking trails cross the ski area.

Friday, 10/10/2025: Post photo — Day after Full.

This is a photo of the Hunter (or Harvest) moon the day after it was officially full. I took this photo two nights ago and just processed it today.

This photo was extracted from a 15 second video of the moon. I have a photo stacking program that will extract all the frames from a video and stack them into one photo. I have not used this photo much, so I wanted to give it a try again.

I have not been very happy with my moon shots lately. I do not know if it is my eyes or the lens. When I take moon photos, I zoom in as much as possible and manually focus my lens. My “moon” lens is all manual. The zoom is set at 1050 mm and placed on my tripod. With the length of the lens, any breeze or wind will make it shake. I use live view to focus, and it looks focused on the camera. I may have to take my lens apart and give it a cleaning.

Saturday, 10/11/2025: Post photo — Covered Bridge.

This covered bridge is located at the Foster Country Club in Foster RI. This was the site of one of my cousin’s daughter’s wedding yesterday afternoon. Here daughter likes my nature photography and asked me to photograph her wedding.

The photos from the wedding came out great. The photos from the reception were not so great because of the lighting. It is very difficult to take photos inside when they keep the reception hall dark. You need a very fast lens to take photos. I had a fast lens, but with the darkness and the colored lights from the DJ’s booth, I am not happy with the RAW photos.

It is now time to go through all my photos, edit them, and make them presentable to bride and groom.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Grasso!

That is all for now. Until next week, be safe.

“Quod scripsi, scripsi. Ingeniarius sum, non scriptor.”

“Sumens imagines consolatur et inspirat me. Pulchritudinem mundi video per cameram meam.”