A line of tall Quaking Aspen trees stands at the edge of a meadow showcasing their full fall color gold. The Sun had only recently emerged from behind the steep canyon wall, backlighting these golden leaves into a brilliant glow. This stand caught my eye along South Lake Road near Bishop.
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Over the years of my visits to the Eastern Sierra in search of fall colors, I have tried repeatedly to find an image that I like of this particular stand of trees. This year I finally found a shot that I like. These beautiful trees were just beginning to change, with a bit of a yellow to green gradient from the bottom to the the top of the frame. Their tall slender trunks are being hit by bounce light off their shorter neighbor’s foliage giving them a bit of a glow. I just like the shape of the light making a sort of ring shape. The canyon wall was in shade, the lowering Sun threatening all the trees here with imminent shade as it marched towards the horizon.
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A view looking up in a tall grove of aspens along Maroon Creek Road near appropriately named Aspen, Colorado. There’s nothing like a grove of tall trees to make you feel small. The aspens have turned their characteristic autumn gold.
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Somewhere along Colorado’s spectacular Kebler Pass grows a colony of young aspen trunks that have a curious twist at their base. I wonder what event early in their lives led to these twists, as normally quaking aspen trunks prefer to rise straight up. At any rate this stand caught my eye as I explored this aspen wonderland and the diffuse light of the stormy sky and the wet trunks accentuated their shading where they were catching the most soft sunlight. Their shimmering leaves were at their glorious peak gold color.
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