Hillside Aspen Grove
Hillside Aspen Grove. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Tall aspens in peak fall color growing on an Eastern Sierra hillside.
You might be wondering if the stream of autumn color photographs will end. Well, soon the aspen photographs for this year will likely conclude, but here in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearby there will still be “fall” color on New Year’s Day. So don’t be surprised if this is a continuing thread right on into the new year. Later the trees will no longer be aspens — more maples, cottonwoods, and various other hardwoods from the urban environment, the nearby hills, and even in California’s Central Valley.
This is one of those grove about which I think every year, “I don’t think there’s much else left to do with this subject.” And then, inevitably, it ends up as one of my subjects again the following year. This year I have a somewhat different explanation, as my third-week-of-October visit was later than usual for me. And it turned out that the conditions this year seemed to favor later aspen color in the Eastern Sierra. Consequently, this grove had some of the most striking color that I have seen in this spot, even though I was a good week later than usual.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Hillside Aspen Grove
Hillside Aspen Grove. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Tall aspens in peak fall color growing on an Eastern Sierra hillside.
You might be wondering if the stream of autumn color photographs will end. Well, soon the aspen photographs for this year will likely conclude, but here in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearby there will still be “fall” color on New Year’s Day. So don’t be surprised if this is a continuing thread right on into the new year. Later the trees will no longer be aspens — more maples, cottonwoods, and various other hardwoods from the urban environment, the nearby hills, and even in California’s Central Valley.
This is one of those grove about which I think every year, “I don’t think there’s much else left to do with this subject.” And then, inevitably, it ends up as one of my subjects again the following year. This year I have a somewhat different explanation, as my third-week-of-October visit was later than usual for me. And it turned out that the conditions this year seemed to favor later aspen color in the Eastern Sierra. Consequently, this grove had some of the most striking color that I have seen in this spot, even though I was a good week later than usual.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.