Photography Frustrations!

With the rising temperatures, I finally got out and went for a walk through the Meaford cemetery.  It's a beautiful, peaceful place, easy to walk around because they keep the roadways plowed (or snowblown), and I hardly ever see anyone else there.  Not only that, but you enter the cemetery through a quarter-mile of beautiful woodland.  It's large enough that it's nearly a 45 minute walk to circle it (at my slow pace), my first serious walk since my surgery in December.

I park just outside the gate, and enjoy this long walk down the road to get to the cemetery itself.

Beech leaves and snow-covered spruce branches along the way.

The road borders a very steep hill, an old glacial shoreline of Lake Algonquin, so you look down into the canopy of the forest below, all snow-covered.

I thought this row of trees was interesting - but as you can see, the photograph is slightly blurry.

When you get to the cemetery itself, there's a small chapel along with other facilities.

This photo, taken back in December, shows you how large it is; you're still only seeing a small part of it here.

Yesterday there was a lot more snow.  I love the snow-caps on the graves, but the snow is deep enough that you're not going in search of individual graves at this time of year!

In some of the more open rows the gravestones are almost covered, snow about 18" deep on the level.

They also have a lot of big old maple trees which will make good photos in their own right.

I heard a tapping as I headed back to the car, and looked up to see this pair of Hairy Woodpeckers high in a White Ash tree.

Meantime, I managed to snap at least 75 photos as I walked.  Since my auto-focus has failed, I was focusing manually, and I was really quite pleased with myself.  I knew some of them would be blurry, but I thought I was doing fairly well.  Then I loaded them up on the computer screen, and realized what a disaster my focusing efforts had been!  They were virtually all too blurry to use.  I deleted about 65 of the 75!  Needless to say, my malfunctioning lens has now gone to the camera hospital to see if it's worth repairing.  I'll be using my iphone camera or our little point-and-shoot for the next 2 or 3 weeks.  At least I did have a good walk!