Algonquin Trails November 2011

My Lady's sister is a "Fractional Owner" of a vacation condo that hooks her into a world-wide condo swap organization. So she vacations in condos here and there depending on what her budget and travel plans allow. She invited us up to share a lovely condo she was using for a couple of days this past weekend in Dwight Ontario, just outside of Algonquin Provincial Park.

We walked a number of short trails. Bought hiking boots that worked out very nicely. I found myself doing my usual - I stop to take a quickie camera snap of something that catches my interest and the people in my group who are ahead move on out of sight (sometimes I have to wait because I just don't want them in the shot - sometimes I don't wait long enough or I miss seeing their foot and it winds up in the shot - I tell myself these are happy snaps, not coffee table book shots). So my photo isn't really composed, it is a grab. In review I wish some were composed but I get what I get. Then I thunder along the trail after the disappearing group, leaping rocks and roots, and just when I catch up I spot something else and stop again to grab another quick shot. Rinse and repeat. At least I'm enjoying myself and I do get a few happy snaps that are nice enough to share
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I have to fly - will try to post some more when I get back. The auto merge, a 10-upload limit, and auto-rotate defeated me

 

I've never done any real Algonquin trekking. You know, lugging a canoe on your back between lakes, out of cell phone range for a week, and finish by carting the trash back out.

Let's see if I can get the last few pics to show up the right way round, and at full size

nope - half the images now auto-rotate to the original orientation and stay there even after I do different back flips to get them to go right way up, so this is it.

 

Thanks cyn. I guess I just managed to make it not work. Tried a couple of things, wound up erasing and reloading the entire first post and ran out of time. There were intermixed thumbs and full-sized, double images, you name it. A mess. My second post I actually used 3rd generation copies of my photos with different names, saved on a different location, all set up the way I wanted - and they still came in rotated wrong. Unfortunately when I got back from taking the dog to the vet my edit window had closed If I'd had the time I would have loaded them on my own site and copied the url for each image. Seems like a bit of a run-around to share a few happy-snaps, but I'll figure it out eventually.