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On this snowy Sunday just enjoying memories from one month ago. Hope everyone is enjoying thier weekend.
Layers of autumn....
We spent hours driving up and down roads in the southern San Juan mountains of Colorado this past week. The views were astounding at every turn....the light constantly changing.....the mood constantly changing.......This scene mesmerized me......I had to capture the beauty as best I could. This was very early in the morning just before too much light hit the foliage. The distant mountains had a blue, cool hue to them. You can see how the slopes and mountains dwarf the road below.
Ah the fall season is in full swing up in the mountains of Colorado and that usually brings out the best conditions to do astrophotography. The hazy conditions that have dominated the last couple months in Colorado let up enough to have a very clear view of the Milky Way. My good friend Chase and I went down to the Crested Butte area to do 36 hours of whirlwind fall photography. We arrived around midnight at Lake Irwin on Friday night and shot this incredible sky for about 2 hours before retiring to Hotel Ford Escape for a few hours to catch the sunrise on Ohio Pass. Whew! Now to repack, and head out again!
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I Think of Alpine Loop. I’ve had a chance to visit the Alpine Loop Scenic Backway in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest many times since I spent an afternoon soaking in views with a friend. This is truly a mountain and forest paradise and is only a short drive from the Sundance and Park City areas of Utah. This was my fourth time visiting the area, I believe! Anywho, I’d just finished exploring several national parks and monuments in southern Utah and was heading back to Salt Lake City for my flight back to Austin. I had the whole day to soak in views...and I most definitely did :-) The original image I captured with my Nikon D800E I uploaded here on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/41176334392/in/album-7...
For the digital painting, there were many aspects I worked on and practiced. The first was the trees. I’ve struggled with trees and painting them for a while. Well, other than some typical evergreens I’ve come across in my travels in the northern US and Canada. Here I had Autumn and its full colors on display. This section of the national forest covered mountainside after mountainside with the yellow hues of aspens (my favorite tree to stand under while watching the leaves shimmer with each passing breeze). I didn’t want to “cheat” on that and wanted to have a more accurate depiction. I found my answer watching Bob Ross paint trees with Autumn colors (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAdMkf-AAPM). After watching it several times, I determined this setting seemed to best capture that brush stroke: Rich Oil Brush by Kyle, Blend, Scatter 186%, Tip Angle 0º. I used a Kyle’s Paintbox - French Sharp Block impressionist style brush for the ground under the aspen trees and mountainside. For the distant trees I used a Kyle’s Rakes - Zen Grind, a favorite of mine lately. I continued to get better (my impression at least) on making the blue skies seem more natural with streaks and other looks (www.creativebloq.com/advice/5-simple-tips-for-painting-be...). The last area I’ll discuss is clouds, a definite struggle these past few months. Then I discovered this video with cloud painting (www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1J47FcNH8), and it all came together. There’s more I can practice on (and have been with other practice paintings).
In the center right foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me setting up my Nikon SLR camera with my Cubbies hat on, loving my time exploring the mountains and forests of Utah :-)
Hey Toto........We're not in Kansas anymore.....
My current situation.....not complaining one bit in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. Autumn colors.....at their best!
Lots more to come.....
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Well as I promised, here is a vertical pan of the grove of Aspen Trees I found on my three trips to Leavenworth, Washington. A fellow photographer friend of mine, Aaron Reed, taught me how to do this. I have been so inspired by his landscapes and abstracts, I had to find my own Aspen Grove and try it!
I probably burned up half a memory card trying to perfect this! I seemed to do a better job with this when I did vertical pans, turning my camera on it's side, rather than leaving my camera in it's normal position. I do have a horizontal picture on my website in the "Abstract" section...Link provided above.
The funny part about all of this is I was shooting across a major highway as semi truck and cars flew by me at over 60 miles per hour! It was cold and a little windy while I tried this. For best results, leave your camera on the tripod and pan down so that the tree trunks don't migrate in the shot. I have to confess that I did all of mine "Hand-Held" as I found using my tripod was cumbersome.
This is a single RAW exposure at about half a second. I used a smaller aperture to increase the exposure. I tried with longer exposures, but found that I got too much of the trees and not enough of the colorful foliage below. There are truly many ways to control your exposures, so I won't go into them. The above is what worked for me. I can't wait to print this large either on canvas or on metal! Considering I have three of them, they could look good together on a wall!
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The fall aspen colors are off the charts right now in the Utah mountains. This photo is from my wife's birthday mountain bike ride, last weekend. With a little rain during the ride, we rode perfect, tacky dirt through the most beautiful, golden aspen groves. I love Utah!
This photo appeared in Flickr Explore on September 30th, 2025.
Prime Elk viewing spot. Got there early to secure a parking space. Tick Tick Tick....absolutely no Elk showed up this evening! Oh but the clouds did, and that gorgeous late afternoon light! The clouds were totally amazing all day.
The peaks in the distance are Mount Chapin, Mount Chiquita, and Ypsilon Mountain.
Rocky Mountain National Park. Colorado
This one if from the archives Adam Potts and I took an unforgettable trip to the Eastern Sierras that culminated in one of the best sunsets at Bonsai Rock I have ever seen. This particular evening, we wondered up this canyon to explore this grove that kept going up the entire mountain side. We stayed until sunset, then wondered back to the car in the dark. Great times, great memories and some great photo opportunities!
Hey Toto........We're not in Kansas anymore.....
My current situation.....not complaining one bit in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. Autumn colors.....at their best!
Lots more to come.....
This image was honored with an AWARD from the Mayslake Nature Study and Photography Club. Connect with me on Facebook and Hitzeman Photography
My favorite dirt road during my favorite time of year. This is Buford Road near New Castle and Meeker, Colorado during the fall color season.
Aspens are starting to show off their fall colors on the edge of Oregon's Diamond Lake, as the last vestige of morning fog clings to the water's surface.
Hey Toto........We're not in Kansas anymore.....
My current situation.....not complaining one bit in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. Autumn colors.....at their best!
Lots more to come.....
A bull moose eats from Oxbow Bend as he's reflected with fall colors in the water in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
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photo captured standing on a mountain in a forest looking out at the Pacific Ocean – a feeling of such exhilaration hearing the ocean, smelling the mist, touching the trees, seeing the beauty all around me – a happy sensory overload.
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In Explore November 29, 2023
The yellow trees are quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). Quaking aspen are Colorado's only widespread, native, deciduous tree and can be found from 6,500 to 11,500 feet in elevation, particularly on the West Slope. The aspen's delicate leaves and vibrant fall color often are displayed as a symbol of Colorado itself.
From Wikipedia:
Rio Grande National Forest is a 1.86 million-acre (7,530 km2) U.S. National Forest located in southwestern Colorado. The forest encompasses the San Luis Valley, which is the world's largest agricultural alpine valley, as well as one of the world's largest high deserts located around mountains. The Rio Grande river rises in the forest, and the Continental Divide runs along most of its western border.
Autumn in Colorado II
In the Autumn driving through the dipping valleys of Colorado, the aspen groves are sprinkled over the hillsides in amber and golden hues. When the wind whispers, the waving and dancing of leaves remind me of liquid gold running over the curves of the mountains. There is peace, inspiration that I feel in the Autumn that is different from all the rest of the seasons.
To celebrate Autumn my favorite season as you all well know, I am hosting a giveaway on my Facebook page for this image. You can enter to win here :)
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Have a wonderful weekend my dear friends! xoxo
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks
Just caught this out of the corner of my eye on the way home, and stopped. Then a trucker stopped. And then two cars with autumn lovers stopped. They left,and I stayed and took more photos. Only once in a great while does a clone turn so magnificently red, and all the clone trees flame out together.
Scenic nature landscape long exposure of a small waterfall on a stream at the start of late spring melt off flowing down from the wilderness of Bonanza in the Colorado San Luis Valley.
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