Fiery Dawn

It's Looks Like A Flaming Tornado

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

I took this shot two years ago, in Muskoka, Canada. I was driving from Huntsville to Algonquin Provincial Park and left my hotel at about four o'clock in the morning because I wanted to be at Algonquin before dawn. This was just one of many amazing sights I was rewarded with that morning. It looks like flames rising over the hill, but it's just dawn colours diffused through thick cloud.

It Ain't Odour Cologne

Mate, I Was Really Kicking Up A Stink

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

Yesterday's post of the day, Poop by any other name, really struck a chord with me. Been there, done that. Here is a segment from a post I wrote in January 2006 after doing a photography assignment for the Canadian Tourism Commission. It describes an incident I'll never forget, while I was shooting scenes like the one pictured above, in the vicinity of Tea Lake in Algonquin National Park in Ontario, Canada.

``The startling beauty is all too much for a city slicker like me. As I juggle cameras, memory cards and spare films, I am concentrating too hard to look elsewhere. So, when I suddenly get the overpowering whiff of moose dung, I look around, expecting to photograph the big animal at point-blank range. No such luck. I've stepped into a steaming pile of it and it's all over my sturdy boots like a rash. That's when I realise the truth in the old adage - what's dung cannot be undung.''

To read the entire post, go to Bear The Brunt Of It.

Click here: Pentax Optio, Shutter speed 1/80, F 4.8, ISO speed 100.