Aspen and Fern Covered Hillside, Sierra Nevada

Aspen and Fern Covered Hillside, Sierra Nevada
Aspen and Fern Covered Hillside, Sierra Nevada

Aspen and Fern Covered Hillside, Sierra Nevada. Bishop Creek Area, California. October 2. 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Colorful autumn aspen trees and ferns cover a rocky hillside along Bishop Creek, Sierra Nevada, California.

And the series of photographs of wild autumn aspen color from the eastern Sierra Nevada continues… This photograph was made along Bishop Creek. The colors in this area when I was there were the most intense fall colors that I can remember seeing in the Sierra. At first I thought perhaps it was just me, but others have been writing the same thing about this. Not only were the aspens “on fire,” but the overcast and light rain also served to intensify their colors and the colors of the other brown and green plants.

This hillside above the banks of Bishop Creek was covered with dense aspens and ferns, and both were well along in the seasonal color transformation that occurs between the end of summer and when the first snow falls. Speaking of “dense,” this is one of a series of photographs in which I tried to work with these very densely vegetated scenes in an attempt to try to capture the lush and almost overgrown character of these areas.

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6 thoughts on “Aspen and Fern Covered Hillside, Sierra Nevada”

  1. Very nice I have been looking at your blog since I found it a couple of weeks ago. Thank you for the information. Maybe we will cross paths this weekend. You have really got my appetite going for the subject. I have missed the good color the last 2 years

    1. Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment, and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the blog. The color was certainly great up high last weekend, and the potential for good color down at the lower elevations was there as well. I’m hopeful that some of the large, lower elevation trees may come into form now that the storms have passed.

      Dan

  2. Very pleasing diagonal created by those two distinct areas of color created by the gold (left) and green (right) and the line of trees. My kind of composition. I like it !

    1. Thanks, Rosemary – that diagonal, along with the contrasting verticals and the intense colors caught my attention as I looked up the course of this little stream. It took me a moment to figure out that there was a composition here, but I think it works. I’m looking forward to trying to print it, perhaps even later today.

      Dan

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