Mill Creek Park

The weather was overcast today, and thought it would be a good day to take a few pictures.  The old Lantermans Mill in Mill Creek Park in Youngstown worked out very nicely.  The images were taken at iso 100, with a 1 second exposure.

Here is another from a slightly different perspective.

These were done with very slight HDR toning, but the colors are pretty pure.  They have been enhanced slightly, but the old mill really is the nice shade of red as you see it in these photos.

Turning around, looking in the opposite direction from the old mill, is the Canfield Rd. bridge.  This is another 1 second shot which smoothed out the rough creek water.

Fall Colors

Fall colors in Mill Creek Park.

Birdhouse near Lantermans Mill

Covered Bridge near Lantermans Mill

A number of folks enjoy the contrasting color in this heavily processed image.

Lantermans Mill

Along the Lantermans Mill Trail

This last image has very light HDR effects, it almost looks 3 dimensional.  This is probably one of my best realistic photos I've ever taken.

And one more, another that has had some good positive reviews:

iron foot bridge on the extreme south end of the park.

Mill Creek Park

Spent a couple hours photographing at my favorite place, Fellows Riverside Gardens.  I wasnt sure what would be in bloom this late in the year, but it was definitely worth the trip.

I took a few images of some flowers in the garden:

Patch of daisies.  How many bees can you find?

nice orange poppy.

Pink Rose.  There were a number of different colored roses still looking nice.

I'm not sure what this is, but they had quite a few of these in all different colors.

Nice contrast and color.

Here is a red version of the purple one above.

Red Rose in the Rose Garden

Striking yellow flower.

OK, now that wasnt all I did.  The REAL HDR images, with a little artistic touches are below:

This was taken under the Suspension Bridge that you will see as the last image in this post.

I read somewhere that photographing woods is not easy.  This is looking down a path in an area we locally call "The Flats"

This is from the same image as above but with a little different processing.

This image of the creek with a modified "surreal" effect.

And here is my version of the Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge.  This has been photographed by many, but here is my version...

Yes, I took this image today.  This started off as an HDR, was stacked in Photoshop, but  the effects were produced in Gimp.  It was then color corrected somewhat in Photoshop again, then the text was added, and then placed here.