Late Autumn Colour at the Coille Mhór

Atumun Oaks, Coille Mhór (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 24-105mm lens at 28mm, ISO 200, 1/125sec at f/8.0)

Had a lovely walk from Balmacara up the forest road to the waterfall and then back down through the Coille Mhór oak-birch wood  While most of the trees have shed their leaves already the oaks are clinging on to them providing some lovely late autumn colour.  The three trees in the above shot are favourites of mine and today the brilliant blue sky provided a fabulous backdrop for their golden leaves.  The following shot was taken looking across what we refer to as The Reserve, which is a heavily rush infested wet pasture, looking towards Carn Thollaidh, again with the spectacularly blue sky as a backdrop.  The final image is of an old oak situated beside the main access track looking south towards Kylerhea.  This one was a little back-lit by the low sun so I did use three auto-bracketed shots which I then combined with the HDR merge tool  in Lightroom to maintain the detail that as visible to the naked eye and avoid silhouetting the tree.

Carn Thollaidh from The Reserve, Coille Mhór (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 24-105mm lens at 105mm, ISO 200, 1/160sec at f/8.0)

Oak Tree, Coille Mhór Track (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 24-105mm lens at 24mm, ISO 200, 1/320sec at f8.0, HDR merged from 3 auto-bracketed shots, +/- 1 stop)