Actually, if you're a Canada goose lover, this has been a great year. There
are still thousands of the silly things in transit to southern climes.
Through the spring and summer, the local golf courses were flooded with
geese and goslings. The ones on the golf courses seemed to get quite used
to people. Great for photographs but probably not for the long-term
survival of those particular geese.

The leaves are mostly gone by now. Apparently they are all on my lawn.

Let me put in an OT plug for Winnipeg. If you like photographing ducks,
geese, etc, Winnipeg is marvelous in September. We're 30 minutes from Oak
Hammock Marsh, a major sanctuary on the migratory path. Within city limits
is Fort Whyte Centre, a massive sanctuary for all kinds of birds (lots of
birds year round). Plenty of other activities to keep you busy.
"Fred II" wrote in message
news:hXMjb.26938$S_.2341@clgrps13...


I used to live in the outskirts of Winnipeg ... Charleswood to be precise
.... if I lived there today I'd take my camera out to the Assiniboine Forest
ie adjacent to the Tuxedo Golf Course (where Grant Ave meets Chalfont Rd I
believe) and get some fall nature photo's of the Poplar, Oak and Maple trees
and the birds that call that area home ... or ...
I'd take the road/highway that follows the very scenic West side of the Red
River out to Lockport and return along the East side ...


Jeff wrote:

FWIW, I carry an older P/S film camera (Olympus Stylus) as I bike to class
(U of Winnipeg). It's small and very lightweight and the resulting photos
are quite acceptable. It cost me less than C$100 about 10 years ago, so
monetary risk is very low as well.

I prefer to keep it loaded with Ilford HP5. Fast enough to handle low
light. Decent enough that photos don't look like newpaper pictures. Cheap
enough for a student's budget. B/W, so I can process the film myself and
then scan the negatives into my personal confuser (PC).

Prior to the Stylus, I had a Rollei 35. Rather quirky but nice photos. It
died an untimely death due when a planet jumped into its path.

There's not a lot of nature to photograph on my ride into/out of downtown
Winnipeg, but there are interesting sights along the way.