From the same day as my previous post, this was the scene directly behind my back. A young Juniper, alone in a red sea of wild blueberry plants, with the edge of a typical bog forest appearing from the fog behind.
Many people associate landscape photography with wider lenses, but for this image I took out the trusty 100-400L lens to better isolate the small juniper tree (which was about 25-30 feet away) and help render the background forest edge in a pleasing out-of-focus way. The greatest advantage about the zoom is that being on a boardwalk with no way to move back or forth I was able to properly compose the image while staying put. The "IS" was also very helpful with such low shutter speeds (being the handholder that I am!)
Canon 40D + 100-400L at 170mm, aperture priority, evaluative metering, 1/60s., f/5.6, ISO 800, +1 EC (histogram checked), FF. In hindsight I should clean-up the small bare tree almost touching the top of the main subject.
Fog at the Bog II.
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