I visited the Japanese Zen Garden in Portland Oregon with the intention of photographing this famous Japanese Maple Tree. Well, famous among photographers anyway! The light was terrible the day that I was there and my photographs weren't any good. I used a bit of Photoshop Tomfoolery to produce something that is over the top but intriguing to my eye. Somehow, it captures the essence of the tree that I was hoping to bring home.
The main harbor of Tobermory, It leads out to the Georgian Bay (Lake Huron).
Immediately after breaking out above treeline on the Fallingwaters Trail at Little Haystack Mountain, 45,000 acres of undeveloped Pemigewasset wilderness greets your eyes from a vantage point thousands of feet above the trailhead.