Continuing the countdown to the end of this year’s batch of Eastern Sierra fall aspen color, here is another vertical format close-up of a pair of beautiful leaves, photographed in the soft light of a colorful grove still in the morning shadows of a nearby ridge. This soft light filled in the shadows, lowered the contrast, and produced lovely saturated colors.
These leaves, here mostly positioned against a background of very out of focus trees with a few leaves around the edge, are illustrative of what I found during by brief fall color foray this year — a whole lot of great color and more reds and oranges than I usually encounter.
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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him. Blog | Bluesky | Mastodon | Substack Notes | Flickr | Email
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