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What a season autumn is in Colorado! Golden canopies like this blanket the mountains and create an almost surreal experience. The San Juan mountains are home to many views such as this one in late September.
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Back in October, I went up to the San Francisco Peaks—a group of extinct volcanoes that make up the highest mountains in Arizona, about a five hour drive from where I live—truly a world apart from the lower elevation deserts. Between 8000’ and 10,000,’ there is a forest of aspen trees that morph into golden splendor in the fall. I’d just been sent the new iPhone13pro to try out, and it was truly perfect for this hiking trip. This particular pair of hikers was waking away from me, into just the lit-up spot I’d been hoping they would—the light coming through the leaves was magic. Everyone on the trail was smiling, soaking it all up—a happy respite from so much negativity in the news and social media… It was a windy day, and that night an early season snowstorm blew through this forest; the day I took this photo ended up being the last day of peak autumn viewing for this year.
I took this with the iPhone13pro’s native camera app, then used snapseed for some cropping, a bit of exposure and contrast balancing, and some slight vignetting.
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I Stood Underneath a Quaking Aspen
And felt a cool breeze blow across my face
But it was the yellow leaves of the aspens
That shimmered in a passing glory
A soft rustling and quiver made of gold and yellow
On a sunny Autumn Day.
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one early afternoon while standing under some aspens in the Sundance mountain resort area. Here I decided to zoom in with the focal length to this high up portion of an aspen tree as I walked around with my head back and looking up. I felt that focusing in on that one portion in between the passing breeze of the shimmering leaves gave that feel for actually standing in listening to them...with a passing breeze.
While at the Sundance Resort with a view looking to the west to more distant ridges and peaks coming off Mount Timpanogos and the Central Wasatch Range. My thought on composing this image was to zoom in with the focal length to this one portion of the mountain range but include some nearby forest of evergreens to frame the lower portion of the image. The blue skies and clouds would be that backdrop to highlight the mountain range also.
October 3rd, 2019 - Kebler Pass, Colorado.
Long drive, but it was worth it. I think I caught the changing of the leaves a bit too soon, but there were a few patches of oranges and reds.
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Autumn scenes like these always make me stop and wonder. Two separate groups of trees very close together. One group is completely void of all their leaves while the other is still decked out in all its autumn glory. Even more of a surprise (to me) it's the uphill group that still has its leaves.
Why is this?
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COUNT THE EYEBALLS! Highly recommend you look at this on Instagram to see the close-ups (instagram.com/brookeshaden)
How many can you find?
Inspiration for this image: my imagination is the craziest. Try me. Here's an example that will undoubtedly make me look legit insane: I tend to believe anything is possible, from religion (I'm agnostic), to zombies, to ghosts...I just err on the side of not being able to know everything, so anything could be, no matter how unlikely I think it is.
Cut to: me in bed at night as a kid. Mom checks under my bed, in my closet, behind my door - no monsters. But how can I be sure? What if they're invisible? Grown-ups can't see them? What if they break through my window? What if they're in the air duct?
Cut to: me in bed as an adult. I can't sleep in total darkness. I'm the easiest person to jump-scare under any circumstances, and I can't watch anything scary on TV because I'm convinced it COULD be real.
Cut to: me as a very young child. My first dream I can remember was that I was shot in the head. I was probably 3 or 4 and that dream has recurred into adulthood. My life has been ruled by fear in so many ways. Eyes watching me from the trees? Why not? It could be. BUT, it has been the single greatest asset I've possessed in my life. It allows me to believe in the possibility of all things, no matter how unlikely. I believe I can be successful, I can change the world. I am supernaturally confident...because I have a supernatural imagination. My art is better for it. Everything is possible. Good and bad.
"An Eye for an Eye"
Self-portrait
September 2020
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My second and last morning of this trip in this drainage started here at Lake Sabrina.
It was calm and a crisp 24 degrees. All of my exposed skin complained especially my fingers.
The slight inconvenience was worth taking in exchange for the peacefulness and beauty enjoyed on this morning.
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Grand Teton National Park
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I have seen so many amazing pics of aspens on Flickr lately! Nicely done everyone!!! On Sunday morning, I decided that I needed to get a pic or two of my own, so I woke up at 4am and drove up to Hope Valley. I had originally planned on going over to the Eastern Sierras, but I decided last minute that I would stick closer to home. After and unimpressive sunrise I decided to drive up a back country road for fun...after about 15 minutes of heavy duty 4 wheeling I ran into this old growth aspen grove. It was fun to see a grove that no one had mutilated with names, initials, hearts, or dates!
I Said to the Mountains Do Not Rise Above Me
I said the forest do not grow around me
I said the wind do not blow against me
I had to change my attitude of control
It was then I saw how it was all good and let it be.
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon while looking to some nearby peaks along Utah State Route 92 in the Timpanogos Cave National Monument. Composing this image was a matter of finding that right angle to sweep across the nearby landscape with the trees while including the jagged peaks above. I then found a mean spot to better off the nearby hillside caught in the afternoon light. I later used some CEP filters (Low Key, Polarization and Graduated Neutral Density) which seemed to best bring out this look even with the bright sunlight from the early afternoon.
I am posting this shot of Oxbow Bend, taken yesterday morning after the previous sunrise version of Mt. Moran, right before leaving Grand Teton National Park. I have been here 17 days and probably shot this location on 13 or 14 of those mornings or days. This was the most beautiful. I arrived here just as the colors were changing on the grove of aspens that you see to the right and the colors kept getting more spectacular every day. I prefer this view with some of the leaves gone and bare branches and tree trunks showing. And, I can't tell you how many mornings I worked on getting one or more of the trumpeter swans in the shot but could never get them just right. Even here, I kept waiting for the head held high above the water but that didn't happen until after the swan moved into the shadow. This was the next best thing. Anyways, I need to get down the road - taking the tarp off the top of the trailer now - and get somewhere before the next predicted rain or snow. Hope that you enjoy this in the meantime.
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Well I have only wanted to take this type of shot for several years now! I finally had the opportunity when I visited Salt Lake City a couple of weeks ago for my nieces High School graduation. I took my nephew Jared: www.flickr.com/photos/56845130@N06/ out to hike around the mountains above Park City and Deer Valley. I was looking for a nice grove of Aspen trees to try the upward shot.
My wonderful nieces had to traipse along with me a day before this when I tried the same thing. As accommodating as they were, I was feeling like I was boring them, as they are not photographers, hiking around looking for those elusive aspen groves. Fortunately the next day my nephew and I had better luck as we drove higher and hiked around a bit longer. I so need to come back in the fall when the colors have to be amazing.
The Pacific Northwest is beautiful and green and loaded with trees. Aspens just don't do as well on the west slopes of the Cascades because of all of the rain. You have to travel to eastern Washington or even central Washington just to find a few. Anyways we were in Aspen heaven with all of the aspens quaking in the breeze!
This is a HDR shot with three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I also shot at the smallest aperture to get the nice sunstar here. I removed a slight color flare in Photoshop. I also did some sharpening and noise removal in Lightroom.
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Our recent trip to Colorado was a few weeks early for the peak of fall color so this aspen vista caught our attention as we explored a caliche road into the mountains east of Breckenridge.
I know, I know...these shots have been done a million times before. But there is something fun and challenging about hunting these compositions down and lining everything up. Furthermore, the images I took last year were too underexposed and I had to push the files too far, losing the white color of the Aspen trunks. This was taken at an awesome grove of huge (biggest I have seen) Aspens in the Hope Valley area today. It caught my eye a few times as I drove by, and so I turned around at a pullout on the way up to the lookout above Red Lake, and bushwhacked through the brush to check out these giants up close. Hope valley is looking very close to peak right now, and should be absolutely perfect this weekend. Still a bit of green here and there but tons of good color around Red, Caples, Blue Lakes Rd, and the Cabin. Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think!
Aspen leaves changing colors along a river near Crested Butte, Colorado. This year was much better than last when it came to the colors.