Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe. Above Incline Village, Nevada. October 9, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Blue water and light above Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe
My annual hunt for aspen color took me to the Lake Tahoe area in early October. I realized that although I’ve gone to Tahoe for many years that I have very few photographs of the area. The reason, I think, is that so often Tahoe is a place to go for other purposes, such as skiing or a cabin stay, etc. And, frankly, Lake Tahoe is a very busy and, in many ways, quite urbanized place — so my nature and wilderness instincts are often a bit frustrated there. But it is a beautiful lake, and I could see more of that when I went there this time with photographic intentions.
The underlying reason this time has to do with a project I’m working on that is related to fall color in the mountains of California. I’ve covered many other good fall color areas, but I needed more material from the Tahoe area. So I spent an evening, a full day, and part of a morning doing some exploring. The “full day” began with a drive over highway to the Carson City, Nevada area and then north towards Reno and back toward Tahoe past Mount Rose. There were quite a few aspens along this part of the drive, but I couldn’t stop much due to road construction. Then I did something I’ve done a number of times before — I circumnavigated the lake, paying special attention to fall color. I realized that there is quite a lot of it, even if much of the color is in areas filled with cabins and resorts. The photograph overlooks the northeast part of the lake from the roadway descending from Mt. Rose.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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