Fall Color, Aspendell. Sierra Nevada, California. October 7, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
After getting up before dawn, driving hundreds of miles, and searching up and down eastern Sierra gravel roads for colorful aspen groves I was almost embarrassed to join the other dozen or more photographers working this scene right next to the road on the edge of the small village of Aspendell. :-)
Morning Snow and Blowing Fog, Silver Lake. Near Carson Pass, Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
The first snow of the season (for me, at least) on the shore of this Sierra Lake in the early morning light.
Autumn Sunset, Monitor Pass. Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
At the very end of September I did a one-day eastern Sierra blitz – driving from the Bay Area over Carson and Monitor Passes and getting as far south as Lee Vining before returning by the same route. This photograph was made in virtually the last light of the day in a grove of aspens at the summit of Monitor Pass.
Aspen Grove, Sunset – Monitor Pass. Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
The very last light of the day touches the upper branches of these aspens in a grove at Monitor Pass.