Aspen Grove, South Fork Bishop Creek. Sierra Nevada, California. October 4, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Slender aspen trunks topped with golden autumn leaves near the South Fork of Bishop Creek.
This beautiful grove of slender-trunk aspens with only a few leaves left in their crowns was a lucky find. In the evening I went out looking for groves that were in the shadow of the high peaks of the valley below South Lake. I ended up on a small one-lane gravel road that didn’t seem to be getting too many visitors besides me. I found this grove near the end of this road just before it rejoined the main paved roadway, and just as the fading light provided saturated colors in the trees’ crowns to provide contrast with the paper white color of their trunks. (There is quite a bit of fine detail in this photograph that isn’t visible in the small jpg image posted here.)
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Hi Dan,
Yes, I think it is consolation except that even the freezing weather and bare trees can create their own photographic opportunity. I just need to get out with the camera more!
:-)
Hi Cynthia: This photograph was made on the evening of October 4, so the previous week. If it is any consolation, I’m sure it is freezing cold there now and that the leaves are all gone! :-)
Dan
This is lovely Dan. When did you take this? Was it on this past Sunday or the previous week? Anyway, it just makes me wish I were still there!