color for the sake of color Posted by Vistaphotography , Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:51 AM, in

color for the sake of color, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.

Walking around my neighborhood the last few days has been a real treat. I have an embarrassment of riches in the way of fall color. Most of our trees didn't start to turn until the last week, so the wind storms that have come in on the weekends didn't do too much damage.

This is true of much of the north shore of MA and up into NH and ME. If you are heading out for drive, head up the coast on route 1 or 1A There are a few more so consult your map book.

The coast line is showing good color so I think unless we get some real nasty weather over the next week, the north shore should have great fall foliage color into Halloween.
I love having a little color to have as a back drop for my Halloween decorations....
Monsters dancing among the colored foliage doesn't happen often so hopefully I'll get some pictures up next week.

Jeff Folger
Vistaphotography
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My art gallery online

Vermont waterfall Posted by Vistaphotography , Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM, in

Waterfall closeup 2, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.

I visited Vermont's south west corner over the Columbus Day weekend and we traveled all over.
We drove on the Danby Mt Tabor road (also known as NF10). As we drove along Danby rd I saw many barns with horses and a cemetery. It's very scenic and the connecting road (NF10) is listed as a Scenic road?. We saw along the side of a road a blue flag on a jury rigged pole. I looked over to the side and there was a very nice water fall which I caught several nice shots of before the light dropped below the mountain top.

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View of Mount Washington Posted by Vistaphotography , Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, in

Foot of Mount Washington, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.

Greetings Fall Foliage Peepers!

I got an email the other day from a family from Belgium who are coming here to be leaf peepers and they have a great itinerary but they asked me a stumper, yes I can be stumped. They want to stop at a bunch of small country stores! Now you may ask how that could be a stumper? Well unless you live near one can you tell me exactly (street address for directions) where 5 or more are?
In my travels I stop at them all the time whether it’s for a sandwich or a cup of coffee or the call of nature that follows 3-4 cups of coffee. :-)

I started looking for a good link to a general listing of stores and [I turned up a list for the Alliance of Independent Country Stores

They also have a couple of maps on the website with links to most of the stores and one has a map with detailed tours that take you past many of them.
I haven’t seen any links to stores in other New England states but I’ll keep looking.

Helpful Books I have found

I have many back issues of various magazines and one or two books that I’ll pick up in June or July for inspiration. One such book is Autumn Rambles of New England.

The book has detailed route with notes on how to find the roads, towns, village greens and of course the local general store. The Tougias brothers detail these trips together. Michael writing and Mark adds in his artwork which is lovely fall representations at its best. I’ve not yet covered all the routes in there but I’m slowly working my way through them.

Another way to stay up on the fall foliage and activities in these parts is by listening to 980 WCAP talk radio on Thursday mornings at 11:10AM EST on your AM dial.
I’ll be talking with the hosts about the upcoming fall foliage season. If you don’t live in the area, you can listen on their website www.980wcap.com and catch it streaming on your computer.

Check my Blog on Yankee Magazine's website several times per week as I travel all over New England during the foliage season with reports all week long. The Yankee Magazine foliage forum is a great place to get updates or over on the Yankee foliage Facebook fan page.

Don’t forget to login on the forum Jeff’s contest thread is open to guesses to figure out my total mileage this season and to win either a boxed card set of my foliage series or a HD DVD fall video. (I didn’t make it; I just purchased it on Amazon)

You can also find great information on Yankee’s Foliage Fan page on Facebook and Yankee on Twitter.

Autumn is here and I hope to hear from you throughout the rest of the fall, if you have any questions please feel free to ask them here in the comments section or in the foliage forum or in the Yankee’s Foliage Fan page on Facebook and I and the other folks will do their best to answer them. Or you can email me at jeff.foliage@gmail.com.

Jeff "Foliage" Folger

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Halloween is coming and a new contest just came out Posted by Vistaphotography , Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM, in

Patrick at the The Raven's Barrow website is running a contest with some pretty good prizes. He is also building up his fan page and friend numbers which gets the spread about his social network on Facebook.
If you become a fan of his page or become his friend or blog about him you get so many votes...
One of the neat things about being in his network is that you get info on how to Zombify yourself and make pictures like this.

Now is this cool or what? I mean you do realize that Halloween is less than 60 days away.. Are you ready?

Stay tuned here for updates on our Halloween activities and things that are creeping around our basement are about ready to come out and play...

Jeff
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St Albans farm road Cover shot for Globe Magazine Posted by Vistaphotography , Friday, September 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, in

St Albans farm road Cover shot for Globe Magazine, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.

Just a short note since there's so much going on...

I was contacted by the Boston Globe a few weeks ago wondering if I had any fall photos... Me? Jeff Foliage?? Surely you're jesting... So I steered him over to my online photo gallery where he preceded to pick a few favorites. This one won out for their fall issue cover and when I'm permitted I will post the actual cover shot. The mock up looked fantastic.

I'm truly blessed this year. I have so much to be thankful for and since I believe in good karma and what goes out to others comes back to you... And this year that is so true.

Jeff "Foliage" Folger
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www.yankeefoliage.com
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Jeff Foliage published in Yankee Magazine Posted by Vistaphotography , Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, in

Pond color, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.

Well I wasn't so much published as they decided to do a story about my fanatical obsession with fall foliage. I know most of you have been to my Vistaphotos website or my new one Vistaphotography. If you haven't been there you can remedy that quickly enough.

The first one I think you can tell I made myself and the second was created by professional web designers. Anyway if you go to either one and click on the artwork links it will take you to my online gallery where I have a good bit of my fall foliage work available for people to look at.

Anyway the story in Yankee details how late last Oct I took writer Mike Blanding (BTW an awesome writer ) Anyway he thought he was just going on a "little" ride along with me which ended up being 9 hours later that I dropped him off at his car....

When I go out to catch foliage it's never a "little" trip.. :-)

Anyway I ended up after this story being termed an obsessive fanatic about fall foliage and this is after last year where the news services called me a foliage pundit and the year or two before that I was a "prolific Photographer" (in that I take a whole bunch of pictures and not the other meaning one might get for being prolific.. :-)

Anyway I'm having a contest for people to guess how many miles I will drive in my annual search for fall foliage.
Jeff's Foliage Mileage contest can be found at the link in this sentence and you simply have to go to Yankee Magazines website and register in the forum and post a guess with how many miles you think I'll travel between 20 September and 1 November.

The final guess has to be in by the witching hour on Halloween (October 31st) and then I will look over the guess and email the winner... What does the lucky winner take home? Why nothing less than a handcrafted set of greeting cards created by my with my fall photography.
A gift like this is clearly worth thousands of dollars or about $35 with shipping and handling...

Remember you have to go to Yankee's site and this is the direct link to the forum thread to view guesses and rules. (ie. one per household) simply register and no they won't spam you or anything else but due to spammers out on the web they make you register with a "real" email address and if you didn't give a real email address then I wouldn't be able to tell you that you won... So if don't like to register for fly by night sites... Look at it this way Yankee Magazine has been around for 74 years and I don't think they qualify anymore as fly by night...

So please stop in and register...

Jeff Folger
Vistaphotography.com
Vistaphotos.net
online gallery.

Excuse me? by Vistaphotography Posted by Vistaphotography , Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, in

Excuse me?, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.

This little fella was enjoying the new planter/bird feeder (stress the bird part) and then he looks over at me and plainly says more please...
How do you help but feed them along with the birds.. I don't put too much out in the summer but occasionally I put out a little to let them know it's still here... That way in the winter they'll be here in force...

Well as usual leave me note if you like the photo and be sure to visit my other art work at www.vistaphotos.net

Jeff