This week's photography homework

These colourful trees are Bigleaf Maple. This area where we live now has lots and lots of these trees all over the place. This photo was taken at Mason's Beach on Shawnigan Lake.

This sea gull shot is just a so-so picture but I included it in my homework because there are a few aspects of it that I particularly like - the fact that I was able to get close enough to the sea gulls to take a decent picture, capturing one bird in flight, and the angle of the concrete boat launch across the bottom of the picture.

They are considered a weedy nuisance here but I have always liked Ivy so I couldn't resist taking pictures when I found this enormous ivy bush taking over a fence and wall.

 

 

I did ferns last week and here is another one this week. The green frond contrasts with the orange fallen maple leaves in the background.

More maple tree leaves below.

 

Also, a picture of Ingot from across the road. I worked hard scrambling up a muddy slope through 4-foot alder saplings, getting scratched by prickly bushes, fighting with my camera's exposure settings while the sun peeked in and out of clouds to get this picture and I'm still not happy with it. I am going to try again on a cloudy day. Too bad all the leaves have fallen off that maple tree since I took this picture.