Some more eye candy from our trip to Colorado for fall colors. The San Juan mountains are such a wonderful place to see colors of fall. These are all taken by Barbara, my wife. She really does have a good eye and it makes it nice to have a travel companion on these trips. I am very lucky to have such a wonderful wife, friend and companion. We are looking forward to visiting here again, maybe next year.
Enjoy.
Here are a few images from a fall color trip Barbara and I took at the beginning of October. Colorado is really magical for fall colors, just gorgeous, miles and miles of aspens turning color and fluttering in the breeze. The cool breezes and the hints of cooler weather in the future really make it special. We spent about a week in the San Juan moutains, enjoying the vistas and the colors. There are so many places to explore and discover that we hardly scratched the surface. The photographs here are from the area just south of Telluride a storm system was approaching and we were on our way out of the area. A more mundane life was pulling us back to the hustle and bustle of day to day living. Enjoy.
I will continue to add more posts with more images as I get them posted. On a technical note I only brought my mirrorless cameras, Barbara and I were shooting Fujifilm cameras, a X-T1 and X-E2. I also had my Sigma DP2Q and DP3m, but in this post these are all from me and the X-T1. Traveling with these smaller cameras is really a pleasure.
Well just a few more weeks left of this year, and a fine year it has been. Here is a shot that I recently processed from my trip to Yellowstone and Montana. This group of aspens was quite nice but I was quite happy with this shot. Fuji X-Pro 1 camera. Hope you enjoy it too.
At the beginning of October I took a trip with my wife to Montana and Yellowstone National Park. We were a bit late for fall color but there were some areas that had some still hanging around. It was quite cold there and winter was rapidly approaching. Here are few of the fall color landscape shot from the trip. Enjoy.
Hard to believe how fast this year has gone by…seems like it was only summer a few days ago… Well we have been having some rain, but I did not let that stop me, on the way home from work I stopped at a park in Orange and got out and stretched my legs. Even though it was drizzling a little I decided to take my camera, the oaks were in the process of turning color and dropping leaves and strolled past all the dead leaves I noticed a single green leaf among them. I liked the contrasts. Fuji X-Pro 1 and Fuji 60mm f2.4 macro at f2.8.
Here is another fall color image, taken with the X-Pro 1 and the 18mm lens. This was taken on a week long trip to Montana and a quickie visit to Yellowstone. We had a great time visiting some friends and doing some photography. I am woefully way behind on my editing but I hope to have that done pretty soon and the images up and posted. I hope you enjoy this view of some fall color in the Lamar Valley.
Well I thought I squeak in an image at the end of the week here, a quick picture of some fall colors, although I did convert it to black and white. I walked by all these sweet gum leaves on the ground and noticed the cool looking roots and this just called out to me in monochrome. So here it is, shot with the Fuji X-Pro 1, and the 35mm f1.4 lens. Enjoy
Well you have seen some of my images, here are some of Barbara’s images. Barbara is a not only my wife, friend and travel companion. She also has a very good eye for photography. It really is nice that she also shares an interest in photography, it sure makes the “photography trips” a lot more enjoyable. So I really am a lucky person! She enjoys using her Canon G-10 point and shoot and as you can see she does quite well with it. Please feel free to comment, or “like” the post. Enjoy.
At the beginning of November, my wife Barbara and I made a short trip up to Yosemite. We were lucky enough to stay at a friend’s cabin in Wawona, so we made it a long weekend. The cabin was fabulous, very comfortable, beautiful surroundings and best of all we were inside the park! We had a great time, definitely need to spend longer next time, but we still managed to do a lot. We went there hoping to see some fall colors, and we were successful. A storm was moving through and I was hoping for some dramatic clouds to enhance the scenery, and we certainly got that as well. We were also lucky enough to get a nice dusting of snow, a wonderful time to do photography! So we had it all, great scenery, dramatic skies, snow and fall colors all rolled into one area. Here is a 4 panel panorama from the Tunnel View location overlooking the Yosemite Valley, you can see the dusting of snow and the clearing storm clouds, a great opportunity. This is a 4 panel panorama, taken with a Canon 5D MarkII and Zeiss 35mm f2 in the portrait orientation. Each panel consists of three images with different exposures blended together to capture the full dynamic range of the scene.
Here are some other views from different locations through Yosemite. I took a reduced set of equipment with me, instead of my usual collection of lenses and gear. I brought my Canon 5D MarkII and a Zeiss 35mm f2, Zeiss 21mm f2.8, Canon 70-200 f4L, Canon 50mm f1.4, and a Samyang 14mm f2.8. The most used lens was the Zeiss 35mm, followed by the 21mm, and then the 70-200, I really did not use anything else. I hope you enjoy the images and please feel free to comment or “like” the post. Thanks for looking.
