In mid-October 2023, my friends invited me to go scouting in the Eastern Townships of Quebec to discover its beauty during the autumn season. Before leaving home, the weather forecast for the area was good: sunshine and partially cloudy.

While driving on Bell Road, I spotted this green carpet bordered by brightly autumn-colored trees leading to the distant mountain peak. So, I stopped the car and parked safely on the side of the road.

The image contained a combination of wonderful colors and layers of mountains topped by a soft textured sky. It was a nice touch to have cows eating grass in the field.

Handheld, I used a 46mm focal length to compose the image.

To have a perfect histogram (ETTR), I overexposed by 1 stop. Doing so allowed my sensor to catch more detail in the brighter zones. During postprocessing in Lightroom, using a sky mask, I set the highlights to -100 and dehaze to +15, which brought out very fine details in the clouds.

Autumn is a gorgeous season for photography. In a couple of weeks, this scene will be white!