This comes from David Kennedy’s Ontario in Photos blog:
The fall is one of my favorite seasons to photograph Ontario’s landscape, particularly that thoese few weeks when the leaves have turned colour…
Two years ago, though, the colours were very dramatic with bright reds and yellows and this period seem to last a few weeks…
Even if the colours are not dramatic, there are still interesting fall elements that are worth photographing, leaves on the ground, close-ups of leaves, trees by rivers and lakes. One constant in the fall is the changing light as the days get shorter. For the photographer, the morning sunrise is later and the sunset is earlier. This makes it much easier for the photographer to capture the beauty of the light at these times of the day.
I read about this in the September issue of TechNet Magazine:
Dealing with physical media can be a real drag. Since switching to Windows Vista and losing direct compatibility with the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel, I have been looking for a replacement to mount CD and DVD images…
One tool I’ve found that does work within your Windows Vista user context is Virtual CloneDrive from Elaborate Bytes. The application installs itself as a GUI management application and a storage controller you can see from the Device Manager. Once installed, the application has three basic settings.
My wife Lisa is a stay-at-home mom to our two sons (and soon to be new daughter). One of her biggest challenges is keeping the boys busy. They don’t mind playing on their own, but they aren’t very creative and need some help getting started. One site she has visited lately is Everything Preschool:
Everything Preschool was founded by preschool teachers and parents that were not satisfied with the amount of preschool information available on the web. For this reason we decided to found our own preschool site dedicated to being a complete source for all of your preschool needs. We are not there yet, but were getting closer every day 
There are all sorts of fun activities which will keep the young children entertained, as well as teach them along the way.
Use a wide or ultra wide angle lens to add some extra spark to an otherwise dull image.
Using the widest lens or setting you have, move in close to your subject. You will notice that the perspective is distorted as the subject gets further away from you. Some subjects that this works very well on are those that have a leading line drawing your eye into a main focal point, such as a fence leading you to a barn. Because of the distortion in scale when using wide angle lenses, small objects in the front look relatively much large than the large objects in distance.
Also, stop down to increase your depth of field to ensure that who have as much in focus as you can.
Until next time, happy shooting.
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