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My presentation of the popular "up trunk" shot. The Aspen was tall and the lens a fish eye and wide.
The very iconic Maroon Bells in Aspen, CO. It may not be original, but it was a bucket list shot of mine. Many more fall photos to come !
Camera: Agfa Isolette III MK I (6x6 cm)
Lens: Solinar f/4.5 85 mm
Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400, rated @ ISO 1600
Exposure: 1/200 sec and f/11, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by Foto Brell, Bonn
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Taken during the Fall along the Million Dollar Highway in Colorado.
RAW photo with a Dark and Gloomy preset applied. Post-processed in Adobe Lightroom.
One day I will make it down to explore the caves of this national monument but on those afternoon drives in Autumn, I love to stop and take in the colors with the nearby peaks as a backdrop. Even better with blue skies above to add that color complement for a final image!
Just returned from an Eastern Sierra trip with some great conditions, as the wind was minimal and high thin clouds loomed over during the entire trip. This was a very redeeming trip for me, as my late September trip to Bishop Canyon brought opposite conditions. I wanted to take my Dad to Parker Lake, so we headed up after sunrise at Silver Lake & Rush Creek (still working on the Rush Creek sunrise). Much of the color had fallen along the trail, but the lake was a site to see with the high clouds and glowing yellow Aspen grove at the far end of the lake still holding some leaves. I spent a good hour working various comps, and really enjoyed the dynamic of this late morning light.
If you are heading down this weekend or early next week, here are the places that are still worth visiting that I was able see over the last few days:
June Lake Loop: Rush Creek is absolutely exploding with color, as many of the bigger Aspen trees are just now peaking with others actually still green.
Convict Lake: Still plenty of color along the shores, and the far end.
Mcgee Creek Canyon: Much of the color has fallen at the upper reaches, but it is peaking around that first campground with the covered picnic tables.
Lower Lee Vining Canyon: The color is explosive along Poole Power Plant rd. Aspen campground is a cool spot to explore, along with the meadow before you reach the gate.
Sherwin Creek: Still quite a bit of color at the lower reaches, right off of Sherwin Creek Rd.
Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think!
Splendor: The condition of being magnificent, impressive or brilliant.
When we first scoped out this spot, Brad McGinley and I were amazed at the opportunities. Fall color, Sneffles majesty, creeks, ponds, serpentine rail fence, and horses…..many horses! We were in awe as we gazed out at this scene.
According to our guide, Susan Humphrey, the area known to locals as Willow Swamp will be impassable in a just a month blanketed by snow throughout the winter, but on this day it humbled and awed the three travelers who crossed its path.
Happy Friday Everyone!
After taking the pass and enjoying the curved aspens we popped into the small town of Ophir and the colors were just gorgeous!
A view along a roadside pull off where I found the rows of aspens that converged at a point that seemed to best highlight hillside and mountain peaks off in the distance. With some angling of my SLR camera and zooming in with the focal length, I was able to eliminate the road ahead and focus more on the view of nature with the trees and mountains.
I remember it was the night of the eclipse of the moon. This photo was taken near Ridgway, looking southwest towards Telluride, Colorado and the valley below was still glowing with the dimming sun light. A pretty row of aspen trees in their golden glory highlighted the foreground ridge.
It's a Kaleidoscope of Colors Across a Mountainside
The Aspens have turned yellow with Autumn's arrival
The Evergreens remain true to their colors with their greens up a mountainside
The Mountains have strips of many colors layered over ages of time
The Moon hangs above all with its pale white
And the skies are blue complementing all for this Utah setting.
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured with the vibrance of colors across this portion of Mount Timpanogos with the rugged peaks and ridgelines. In composing this image, I wanted to balance the sweeping view looking across the nearby hillsides going up the mountain with the colors of trees and the blue skies with the moon above. In my mind, I didn't want to just in have the top of the image be near the peak off in the distance, I wanted to include some negative space with the blue skies to kind of add that compliment to the colors of the leaves tree leaves and mountainside.
I first heard of the Dancing Aspens a few years ago. I'm not typically into visiting spots other photographers favor, but I felt drawn to see this grove of trees since I live only a few hours away.
Everyone I know that has gone has always guarded their location. After reading some blogs and getting some riddle-esque tips from friends, I had a pretty good idea of where they were. Since it was autumn and the leaves would be golden, we headed up to where I thought they would be and quickly found the grove!
There was another photographer there when we arrived. I let him get his shots before I took too many of my own using my classic lenses, my Canon FD 24mm f/1.4 L, Noct-Nikkor, and some ultrawide photos with the modern Sony 4/16-35.
We spent about an hour enjoying the changing light as the clouds passed overhead and taking photos before heading out to find a campsite.
Dancing Aspens | Drunk Aspens | Curved Aspens
The view of Maroon lake on the way up to Crater lake. A perfect place to stop and enjoy the scenery!
Running out of names for images…this was taken in an awesome bright orange Aspen Grove right off the 89 on the descent into Hope Valley. Chose a 1:2 crop and like how it turned out this way. Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think!
We didn't see much red during our Colorado fall foliage run, but this place had some. The mountains are the southern terminus of the Ruby Mountain Range, with a kaleidoscope of colorful aspens in the foreground. Taken at Horse Ranch Park along the popular Kebler Pass west of Crested Butte.
It's that wonderful time of year in the Colorado Rocky Mountains when the Aspens leaves start their transformation from green, to golden yellow, and in some cases to red.
I took Wednesday off from work and drove 4.5 hours one-way to Crested Butte, and then up Kebler Pass.
The tricky part about the leaves changing is that altitude and temperatures have a huge impact on when they change. A low valley that stays warmer will delay the change, while higher and cooler elevations will cause them to change earlier. So as I was driving up, I reminded myself that just because I'm seeing green leaves at the lower elevations doesn't mean they are still green at the higher elevations. Timing is everything, because once they start changing, it only lasts a week or so, and if wind or a snowstorm rolls through, it will knock the delicate leaves from the trees.
I was lucky, and timed it pretty well. There was still a lot of green, but plenty of yellow and reds as well. I found this really nice ridge that had lots of color and snapped a few shots.
Would have loved to photograph this ridge as sunset during "magic hour", but the mountains behind me to the south eclipsed the sun and cast a shadow across the ridge.
The clouds were building up; moving fast. I set up the camera on a tripod and kicked back for lunch while waiting for the light to hit just the aspen trees. The light at 1:00pm was really harsh so I digitally blended this from two shots one at 0 step and one at -1 step
A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a mountainside and forest. This is at a roadside pullout along the Alpine Loop Scenic Backway in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. My thought on composing this image was to use the side of Mount Timpanogos and have that frame a setting for a look to the more distant peaks and ridges. I also felt that the different hues of yellows and greens in this forest added a layered look, leading a viewer further into the image.
These aspens to my left as I drove along the Alpine Loop were on full display that day in October. I was able to find a spot to pulloff the shoulder on this drive not long after entering the Uinta National Forest. Those yellow leaves shimmering with each passing breeze in the wind...captivating to say the least! So I captured as much I could while not flattening out the height of the trees to my front. In some ways, a little distortion of view gave a better sense of that height, even if cutting off a little of the top portion of the trees across the road.
On a trail-less hike through the autumn woods above McClure Pass near Carbondale, Colorado, I discovered this intimate landscape scene - a lonely aspen tree holding on to life on a wind-swept ridge above the valley. The last light of the day shone on the tips of the trees branches, making it the real hero of this photograph. This particular ridge is one of the most fascinating locations I've ever seen - all across the ridge are withered, worn, twisted, and gnarled aspen trees - bent in odd directions and their growth stunted from years of wind and abuse on the ridgeline. This tree speaks to me - it reminds me that even through the most difficult time we can emerge as something beautiful and improved - thanks to resiliency.
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*** Explored #62 on 11/13/2020! ***
My coworker, Ana, had spent some time in Colorado in the past and had some ideas on where we should scout for photos. When we arrived in the San Juan Mountains we spent a few days driving along dirt roads in search of beautiful mountain scenes. We had some time to kill one day and wanted to see what the colors were like in Ouray and made our way there.
Along the way we passed beautiful strands of trees and every 2 seconds I wanted to get out and shoot but sun was high in the sky and most of the scenes were meh. We came upon an alpine lake and got out to take iPhone photos when I realized the high mountain peaks nearby were providing some protection from the harsh light. It was just starting to spotlight a strand of trees high up in the mountain and I thought "damn, I need to capture this."
I literally sprinted back to the car because I knew the light wouldn't last long. I grabbed the bazooka lens and my camera and raced back a few steps to get a better line at the hills. Sure enough the light hit some of these aspens and made them glow like crystals. I couldn't help myself.
Nikon D850 w/Sigma 150-600mm:
180mm, f/11, 1/250 sec, ISO 400
Viewed best nice and large
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At this roadside pulloff, I decided to focus on this one portion of a nearby mountainside to capture that look of yellow and golden from the aspen trees and groves. I later did some cropping to bring more of a focus to those colors, allowing the mind to imagine this covering the area to my front as fart as the eye could see...