On Sunday, October 18th, a small group of photographers from the Harbour City Photography Club of Nanaimo made a day-trip to Victoria to photograph the colours of Fall at the world famous Butchart Gardens, the Ross Bay Cemetery, and Hatley Castle (which now houses Royal Roads University). We concentrated mainly on the Japanese Gardens at Butchart Gardens and the Japanese Maples had turned a beautiful scarlet red. Many of the flowers and plants in the Gardens were still covered in the morning dew and that made for some interesting images. We then went to the Ross Bay Cemetery where my main goal was to find and photograph the grave of the famous BC artist Emily Carr, which I did. I also photographed the Cemetery a little differently this time as I tried using my beloved Sigma 150mm macro lens to to shoot objects from a distance and try to isolate my subjects with a shallow depth of field. We ended the day at Hatley Castle and I think we were all running out of steam by then plus the good light was leaving rapidly (at least that's my story). Anyways it was a very good day and I will probably go back again this Fall for another trip. It gets five stars out of five on the Brad Powell list of best places and times to photograph on Vancouver Island!!