Last of the light at Ozawindib Lake. Fall 2011

Ok. I’m staying consistent. And I don’t want to be in this case. No pomp. No excuses. I’m late. Period. Here is October’s wallpaper. I’ve actually had this ready since the beginning of the month. I pretty much just forgot. Or I’ve sat down to post it and got pulled away to something else. Terrible. This issue is going to turn into a New Year’s resolution if I’m not careful.

Anyway…this was the cap to a fantastic day with my beautiful wife and wonderful boys. God has richly blessed me with a tremendous family. This shot was at the very end of our last outing to Itasca State Park. We were on the other side of the park and actually changed the boys into their jammies and got them cuddled up in the back of the car. We then cruised over to Ozawindib Lake so I could try my hand at some lovely fall foliage reflections, while the family relaxed relatively comfortably.

God also blessed me with still water, gorgeous leaves, and a clear sky. It would have been difficult to walk away with a bad image at this point. (Not that I couldn’t accomplish that feat. I’ve done that before.) I sat at the end of the dock next to my tripod with my camera in live view mode. The dock wasn’t wide enough to accommodate me behind the camera and I prefer to do low-light photography with manual focus in live view anyway. So this worked out nicely.

I suppose I could’ve waded in the lake to the end of the dock and operated the camera that way, but seeing as I’ve already used ‘jammies’ and ‘cuddled’ in this post, it should be fairly obvious that I shot from the dock. I kept shooting until I was hovering about a half-inch off the dock thanks to the bird-sized Minnesota mosquitoes trying to carry me off into the woods for a banquet. I took that as my cue to wrap-up.

I grabbed my gear and hurried to the car,  partly because of the mosquitoes, partly because of the rustling in the bushes nearby, and partly because of the surprisingly large intermittent splashing that was coming from my 4 o’clock. I managed to make it back to the car unscathed and we headed home. OK. I’m possibly being a bit melodramatic, but I digress.

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