Acrylic on canvas, 2 panels, each 3' x 3'.

Autumn Color with Aspens turning - along Kebler Pass road west of Crested Butte, Colorado. This area contains one of the largest Aspen forests in the world. The summit of Kebler Pass is 10007 feet and most of the road is dirt and is closed in winter.

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June 7 2014

I lay on the hard brown earth,

Blinded by the cerulean skies.

The fair-haired leaves tremble in a musical breeze,

Spiriting shadows across my eyes.

Contax g2 + 21mm

ilford hp5 400

Shamabala Mountain Center. Red Feather Lakes, CO

I am one of the lucky ones in my neighborhood, I have five Aspen trees in my yard.

carvings in a tree

May 10, day 131 - before the leaves, Banff National Park, Alberta

A forest hit by fire slowly recovers. It's amazing to see an area growing after a fire. The bottom of the forest grows like crazy, enveloping the dead, burnt trees. Pinegree park area.

A herd of rocky mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) on the Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, Oregon. Elk generally find it safer in the open as mountain lions and wolves will ambush them in forest settings.

This is a photo of an Aspen Tree Canopy that is in my backyard. I took the photo up the trunk to capture the color of the leaves against to color of the sky to capture Analogous Colors(Blue & Green) for the Assignment 52 weekly assignment.

Autumn on Million Dollar Highway/A county road runs through the changing aspen trees in Ironton Park on Red Mountain Pass between Silverton and Ouray Colorado

This beaver pond is one of about 7 such ponds in the same area. If you look at the second Aspen tree from the left, you can see claw marks made by a Black bear. Black bears will scratch into the bark to clean their claws of dirt and other unwanted material in their feet.

In the (center rear) of the pond is a freshly cut Aspen tree. Beaver use the Aspen tree branches to construct their dams, and the bark is a food source.

Along the San Juan Skyway

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Above Virginia Creek on Virginia Lakes road.

San Juan Skyway

Aspen Trees at vail, Colorado

Aspen trees glowing with the setting sun near the Western side of Whatcom Falls Park.

Whatcom Falls is one of those falls that you want to see, but the avid hiker might ignore. Why? The primary falls is essentially seeable just by hoping out of your car. There are additional falls, that take a bit of walking, but not much. It's a city park with a bit of meandering, but it's well worth going to to see the various Falls.

However, you won't be able to see all of them. On June 10, 1999, there was a leak and then an explosion from the Olympic Pipeline which ignited. There was significant damage to the park, and three people died in the inferno. That part of the park - and the falls it encompasses - are off-limits. Hopefully, in the future, they'll all be available for viewing.

GENUS NAMEPopulus tremuloides

COMMON NAMEAspen Tree

PLANT TYPETree

LIGHTSun

HEIGHT20 to 20 feet

WIDTHnull to 30 feet

SEASON FEATURESColorful Fall Foliage

SPECIAL FEATURESAttracts Birds, Low Maintenance

ZONES2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

PROPAGATIONSeed, Stem Cuttings

PROBLEM SOLVERSDrought Tolerant, Good For Pr

I have a lot to learn about capturing Aspen. This is an example of a good (not great) composition, but executed at the wrong time. Check out my adjacent post for the right time, wrong place. If I somehow could put these together I'd have a winner.