Since I still had vacation time, I decided to take off for a week and fly into New York the 2nd week of October. I'd always wanted to see the fall colors, and I hit it right in time. I was told that the colors changed later this year, so I lucked out. This was also during that time of the massive storm moving across the US, but I lucked out again by completely avoiding any sort of bad weather. It hit like mad the night before I flew back to Salt Lake, but I didn't care at that point.
Anyway, I ended up going all over the place in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont. I avoided all cities and just stayed more in the countryside. It was very overcast, which makes good photos very hard to come by, so most of the shots with a white sky ended up having the sky overblown. Since I didn't have a tripod with me, I couldn't take multiple exposures and run them through HDR software, which was definitely a mistake I won't make again. All pics taken with an Olympus E-500 with a 28mm-108mm lens (35mm equivalent). Here are a few pics:
Waitsfield Village, Vermont:
Taughanna Falls State Park, NY, just north of Ithaca:
One of the many Adirondack trailheads, NY:
Marathon, NY:
Lake Placid, NY:
Lake George, NY:
Fort Ticonderoga, NY:
New Hampshire countryside:
Franconia Notch State Park, NH:
Franconia Notch State Park, NH:
Salem, Mass:
Minute Man National Historic Site, Mass:
York Beach, Maine:
Rumford, Maine:
Artist Bridge, Maine:
Artist Bridge, Maine: