Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The Housatonic River is right behind me as I take this and these are the southern Berkshire Mountains. This stretch of the AT is the longest stretch along a river on it’s entire 2000 mile run, about eight miles on the west bank of the Housatonic. We only did about six miles today but plan to do the entire section on Sunday to work off Thanksgiving dinner.

Fast experiment with a hand held macro. Interesting bokeh for a point and shoot camera.

An island on the Housatonic. As we talked down stream we kept seeing a bald eagle flying ahead of us and stopping until we caught up. I think if one came here early in the day loaded for bear (for eagle) with a long lens there might be a chance of catching him fishing.

Bank of the Housatonic River.

The sun is setting behind the hill to the left of me and lighting up this windrow of trees at the end of this cornfield.

Over that hill and the next one is Warren where I live. This place is quite close to my house.

Where’s waldo?

This was a test of putting the G11 on a table top tripod, putting it on my pack, setting the camera to Av mode, stopping down, some, and using the timer to get rid of vibration to see about getting a shot with some sharpness front to back. It was a bad test in that the light was low enough and the ISO high enough (auto, stupid me) that the trees are full of noise. I can see potential though and I’ll keep working on shots like this with this camera.

Sunset on the Housatonic. Good thing we were almost back to the car, it was getting cold.