It is time to start the October 2011 Photo Contest.

First an important note. If you see that you have won the contest or a prize in the contest, please email your address and choice of hat, shirt, or bandanna to me.

The theme for this month's contest is "Fall".

Monthly Category: Show us those Fall shots in canoe country

Prize: BWCA Hat, Shirt or Bandanna.

Winner will receive an additional prize of leather work from Dicecupmaker with the bwca.com flying moose on it. Thank you Dicecupmaker!

Thanks to Cooke Custom Sewing (CSS) for sponsoring the year end prize!

Remember 1 entry per person please. This helps us vote accurately.

Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.
- You must be the photographer of the photo and have the rights to post it.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message the location of the photo.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this thread by 11:59pm on Oct. 31st.
- Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) format and uploaded to the site.

Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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Just exiting Wood Lake from my first solo trip (Fall of 2011). Very thankful for the experience and glad to have made it though the trip. As I was loading up for the first portage leg, I saw the sunlight break through the clouds and trees, and it hit the yellows of the birch. Decided to drop the gear and snap a quick pic.

Gull Lake
October 2011

View while crossing Jack Lake, Sept 2010.

Upper Pauness Lake, September 28, 2011.
During the final day of my first ever solo trip.

oberg mountain

sorry that pic was sideways...it wasnt on my puter!

How's this?

thanx fishguts! :o)

Found this on a portage from Boulder bay to Lake Agnes.

Kett Lake portage Sept. 2011.

kahshahpiwi, 9/2009

Big Island Lake
October, 2010

Just the start, September 5th 2011, Crooked Lake

Pushing through portages
and taking a rest from
Lake Agnes to Boulder Bay
in late September to view
some fall color.

10/10/11
White Pond, New York

quote pdesigninc: "Pushing through portages
and taking a rest from
Lake Agnes to Boulder Bay
in late September to view
some fall color.

"

Very nice! I've seen this view many times in May and June, but never in the fall. Thanks.

Late September 2006 -- Lower Pauness, if memory serves.

quote HikingStick: "


Upper Pauness Lake, September 28, 2011.
During the final day of my first ever solo trip."

I keep coming back to this thread just to look at this photo. It simply takes my breath away!

Autumn Solo Paddle, October 9, 2011 -

Sandpit Lake October 2, 2011

quote Spartan2: "

quote HikingStick: "



Upper Pauness Lake, September 28, 2011.
During the final day of my first ever solo trip."

I keep coming back to this thread just to look at this photo. It simply takes my breath away!"

Thanks, Spartan2. There are actually so many good ones this month. I'm glad I'm not one of the judges--they'll have a tough choice this month.

quote egknuti: "Sandpit Lake October 2, 2011 "

Great shot. Were you using a film camera, a DSLR, or something else? It must have great shutter control to get those wings in motion so crisp and clear.

Great job framing the shot, too. Sometimes, keeping the subject off center really adds so much!

quote RAFA Ranger: "


10/10/11
White Pond, New York"

Oh...[wipes drool from chin] ...that shot makes me so hungry for shore lunch--fresh fried fish, American fries, baked beans, and cowboy coffee.

October aspen + moss. North Temperance Lake 2010.

Harvest Moon setting over Basswood Lake - October 2011

What would the northern lights, like Oct. 24th, have been like with a full moon in the background?

Winchell lake, September 2010

I use a pentax k-7 dslr with a 300mm tamron lens . I think was shooting at about 1/320.

Pierz Lake ~ Oct 2011

quote egknuti: "I use a pentax k-7 dslr with a 300mm tamron lens . I think was shooting at about 1/320."

I now have a serious case of lens envy.

So many amazing photos this month! Mine is much less spectacular but holds many fond memories. This is the Gotter to Brant portage, September 2010. Her first ever BWCA trip and she loved every minute!

quote mama2moose: "


So many amazing photos this month! Mine is much less spectacular but holds many fond memories. This is the Gotter to Brant portage, September 2010. Her first ever BWCA trip and she loved every minute!"

nice picture...I hate that portage.

Last week on my October canoe trip to the Man Chain; That Man Lake
starwatcher

quote mr.barley: "

quote mama2moose: "



So many amazing photos this month! Mine is much less spectacular but holds many fond memories. This is the Gotter to Brant portage, September 2010. Her first ever BWCA trip and she loved every minute!"

nice picture...I hate that portage."

nice....and yeah that portage does suck

Vern Lake - October 2010
A perfect fall morning

Following in mooseplums wake.....Pierz Lake, Oct 2011
Morning coffee on the shore

quote mooseplums: "

quote mr.barley: "

quote mama2moose: "



So many amazing photos this month! Mine is much less spectacular but holds many fond memories. This is the Gotter to Brant portage, September 2010. Her first ever BWCA trip and she loved every minute!"

nice picture...I hate that portage."

nice....and yeah that portage does suck"

Thanks for the comments! Yeah, this one was challenging. Last leg of an 8 day trip. We thought the Little Sag to Virgin portage was tough and we had done that two days earlier. Thankfully we had planned a couple days on Gillis to fish so we got a chance to rest up a little. It's just us two gals and I hadn't been on a trip in years. I didn't pack as efficiently as I could have and so of course we were double-portaging too.

The BWCA as seen from the outside.

West Bearskin Oct. 22, 2010

quote ducks: " West Bearskin Oct. 22, 2010"

My wife wants to know where you got the pink pack. Says she has to have one.

quote ducks: " West Bearskin Oct. 22, 2010"

My wife wants to know where you got the pink pack. Says she has to have one.

quote dprochef: "

quote ducks: " West Bearskin Oct. 22, 2010"

My wife wants to know where you got the pink pack. Says she has to have one."

CCS ..... Cooke Custom Sewing

not the bwca (really?), but nice fall colors,

Winner of the Oct Photo contest is HikingStick!

The Trip report contest goes to TuscaroraBorealis!

The extra prize goes to ducks!

Congratulations to the winners and thank you everyone for entering!

quote paddlefamily: " October aspen + moss. North Temperance Lake 2010. "

October birch + moss.