Posted October 3rd, 2012

Fall at Five Finger Rapids

Autumn comes early to the Yukon but this year it was a bit slower to arrive than usual. The trees must have known that September would be uncommonly mild and held the chlorophyll in their leaves long enough to compensate for what was a miserable start to the summer. The fall colours were still near their peak when the temperature soared above 20°C in mid-late September and it was too hot to be cutting firewood so I took a day of recreation and went for a motorcycle ride up the Klondike Highway as far as this spot overlooking the famous Five Finger Rapids on the Yukon River north of Carmacks. A patch of cloud here softened the light but the brightness in the sky prompted me to call upon Photomatix for an understated application of HDR using different exposures to retain the patterns in the clouds.
Pentax K-5, Tamron AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di-II LD @ 32mm, polarizing filter