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.
Here are some shots of fall color from the Eastern Sierra. There had been a snow storm two days before I got up there, arrived on Oct. 7,2011. The snow had not yet melted and I was hoping that the snow and wind had not removed all the leaves, as can happen during a storm. I was fortunate, the leaves were in tact. In fact they were still mostly green on a lot of the aspens, which would seem to indicate the fall colors are happening a bit later than normal for the area. They were not at peak, the lower elevations were still green while some of the higher elevations were just starting with a few areas already well on their way. To find the more colorful areas meant I had to a be a little more selective but anytime out doing photography is a good time! So I had a real good time. I visited the Bishop area, around South Lake and Lake Sabrina. I did go on the road to North Lake, but found a lot of people, and snow and ice; with the warmth from the sun it was turning to mud. It also appeared that a lot of the tress around North Lake had already lost their leaves or did so during the storm. So after I got to the top I turned around and went back down. I also visited sites further north, Rock Creek, McGee Creek, and Lundy Canyon. In Lundy Canyon there was still a lot of green trees and the area around the beaver ponds was still mostly green. There was some steam rising from Lundy Lake, that was a nice treat. I think the Rock Creek area seemed to have the best color. I also took a drive up Tioga Pass and that had quite a bit of snow. It had been closed on the day I arrived but they opened it on Saturday morning. Ellery Lake had some nice reflections that vanished as soon as the breeze kicked up.
One of the things I did different on this trip was to not bring a lot of equipment. I know sometimes I get too caught up playing with the gear, and usually a lot of equipment never gets used. So my tactic was to just bring a minimal amount of gear. Only brought one body, the Canon 5D Mark II, some extra batteries and the usual things like a release, tripod, filters, etc. Lenses were limited to a Canon 70-200mm f4L, 50mm f1.4, a Zeiss 35mm f2, and a Zeiss 21mm f2.8. The most used lenses were the Canon 70-200 and the Zeiss 35mm. The nice thing about the Zeiss is it makes me slow down and plan the shot a little more carefully, with manual focus it is a more conscious effort to get the shot the way I envisioned.
Overall I am quite happy with the results and hope you enjoy them as well.
