Some Tips for Taking Great Photos of Fall Scenery & Leaves

Here are ten articles for you I found while searching on google that provide tips for taking great photos of Fall scenery and leaves. Enjoy.
1) Five Tips for Taking Great Fall Photos – Webshots Blog
2) Digital Landscape Shooting Tips – Asheville Tourism Site
3) Tips for photographing New England’s Fall Foliage- LA Times
4) Tips for taking Foliage Pictures with [...]

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Nova Scotia Leaf Watch

Nova Scotia has a fall leaf watch program which tells the visitors and residents the status of the colors throughout the province. The Cape Breton Highlands leaves are turning now and the Thanksgiving weekend will be a great time to hike and take photos.  Traditionally, our family and friends, hike Franey in the Cape Breton Highlands National [...]

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Photo Contest – Photo editors and photo sharing sites

The deadline for the 2008 Hike the Highlands Festival photo contest is October 7th. Categories are as follows – Best Photo, Best Scenery, Best Flora Photo, Best Flauna Photo, Best People shot and Best Humour.
There are a number on on-line photo editors to help you . Here are just a few them : Fotoflexer, Picture2Life, Photoshop [...]

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Thank-you Hikers – 5th Annual Hike the Highlands Festival

Wow… what an incredible 10 days of hiking. Great weather, an amazing camaradie & friendship among the hikers, interesting & challenging trails, and informative evening activities made the 5th Annual Hike the Highlands festival memorable. Thanks to you, our festival matched last year’s numbers in registration in a tough year but also increase by over 200 people, [...]

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Clyburn Valley and Plaster Hikes – Last Day of Festival

The last day of the festival provided hikers with a beautiful sunny day and easy hikes on the Clyburn Valley hiking trail in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park and the Plaster hiking trail at Plaster Provincial Day Park.  It was a fitting way to close out the festival and say goodbye to many friends we made during [...]

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Cape Smokey & Franey Hikes & Closing Ceremonies

Another sunny day at the festival for the Cape Smokey and Franey Hikes.  Hikers got the oppotunity to see some spectacular views at the end of each hike. At Cape Smokey, hikers were treated to a view of North & South Bay, Middle Head, Ingonish Island and Ingonish Harbour and at Franey – Middle Head, Cape [...]

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Guided Wilderness Hike -Full of Adventure

Seventy plus hikers enjoyed Friday’s hikes at Guide Wilderness Adventure Trail, Branch Pond and Middle Head. Another sunny day provided hikers with lots of great photo opportunities and of course adventure on the trails. Special thanks to our guides & sweeps today for an amazing day on the trails – Lawrence Barron, Lisa dixon and Shaune [...]

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Falls Day in the Festival & Mushrooms

Today was about wild mushrooms and they were abundant on all three hikes – North River Big Falls, North River Little Falls and Usige Ban Falls.  It was appropriate that our evening presentation was “Fabulous Fall Fungi” by Bethsheila Kent.
Sixty plus hikers enjoyed the trails today on overcast fall day. Thanks to our guides – David [...]

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Their are still Angels out there

I was always taught by my parents to respect your elders and help them when they need assistance. Hike the Highlands certainly provided a classic example today at Fishing Cove. An elder and respected citizen from Cheticamp, Lorraine Deveau, required help in completing the hike today. An avid walker of 5 miles daily found the hike [...]

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“It was that kind of Day” at Hike the Highlands Festival

Day five of the festival involved three hikes, Bog, Benjies Lake, and Skyline. Over 100 hikers were on the trails today in our festival. The Morrisons from Scotland joined us today and the Caseys from Margaree at Skyline.  A hiker from Australia spent time chating with us before the Skyline Hike. And four moose were seen today [...]

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