This photograph combines two types of subjects that fascinate and challenge me — post-color aspens and finding compositions in complexity. While the intense colors of peak-autumn aspen leaves are undeniably appealing, I also like the stage right after that when most of the leaves are gone and the skeletal white trunks are fully revealed. I also enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out how to photograph extremely complex and detailed subjects like this dense grove of small trees.
Given that most of my aspen photography is done in the Sierra Nevada, it might be surprising that these trees are not in that range. Instead they grow on a ridge along the western edge of the Basin and Range terrain that beings in far eastern California and extends across the state of Nevada. Some years ago I realized that there is a lot of interesting stuff out there, and I began to search out some of these more remote groves.
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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.
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