Photos of the day: Pumpkin picking 2016

It’s been such a ridiculously, insanely busy month that we ALMOST didn’t get the chance to go pumpkin picking this year. In the end, we decided a quick pick from the yard of Miller’s pumpkin patch would suffice, rather than going back into the fields to select our seasonal squash. And everybody in the family knows that it’s less about the pumpkins and more about the photo op, anyway.

Pumpkin picking 2016

Pumpkin picking 2016

We still had a little bit of fun playing around!

Pumpkin picking 2016

Pumpkin picking 2016

Pumpkin picking 2016

Tristan and his mini-me:

Pumpkin picking 2016

Something about the pumpkin patch always gives me great photos. Must be that soft October light. Or maybe it’s the handsome subjects? I may be biased here.

Pumpkin picking 2016

Happy Halloween!

Photos of the day: Perfect autumn morning in downtown Ottawa

I don’t miss the commute home from working downtown, but this season especially I have really missed poking around on my lunch breaks with my camera. When I was invited to attend a conference at the National Gallery this week, I set my alarm to arrive extra early and give myself some time to creep around and enjoy some autumnal colour in one of my favourite places.

It was worth the lost sleep, wouldn’t you say?

Parliament Hill in Ottawa on an autumn morning

Apparently my theme of the day was framing things through tunnels of colourful leaves.

Photograph of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on an autumn morning

Seriously, though, those colours!!

Photograph of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on an autumn morning

I hiked my way up to Nepean Point not once but twice, but didn’t love the fall colour as much as I did when I was in Majors Hill Park, probably because the sun was rising opposite me and the colours weren’t as vibrant when they were backlit, to say nothing of all the fences and cranes from the Canada 150 upgrades. But I did love stumbling onto this photo of the intrepid shadow girl engaged in her ongoing pursuit of the perfect shot.

The intrepid shadow photographer hunts autumn colours!

We live in an amazingly beautiful city made even more breath-taking by the palette of autumn colours but… don’t blink or it will suddenly be winter. Sigh.