Maritime photographers chase vibrant fall colours

Some people chase storms. In the Maritimes right now photographers, videographers and drone pilots are chasing the fall colours.

Some people chase storms. In the Maritimes right now photographers, videographers and drone pilots are chasing the fall colours.

In places like Cape Breton, the vibrancy of the season is on full display in the leaves. Reds wrapped in green. Golds that glow. Oranges to punctuate a canopy of colour.

“The trees here are just super yellow. I’ve never seen them so bright,” said Josh Lohnes, a cinematographer and owner of AnchorVIewMedia, who draws inspiration from the fall colours.

With a kaleidoscope to capture, he’s not merely motivated by beauty but time. It doesn’t matter that he summited mountains in Cape Breton last fall to catch the colours. To appreciate all of autumn’s angles, he did it again.

“Just the urgency. Knowing it doesn’t last very long,” said Lohnes. “Every sunset varies and no sunset is the same, nor every season is the same.”

Across the region drones are up, focussed on cranberry fields or brightly coloured tree tops.

Omar Abdulnaim of Oromocto, New Brunswick takes his drone out as a hobby.