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Photographs: Fall, Photographs: Fall Color, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Autumn Aspen Forest

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Autumn Aspen Forest
“Autumn Aspen Forest” — Tall aspen trees with white trunks and autumn leaves, Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Returning to the same locations has its pluses and minuses. I suppose that one negative could be the danger that the subject becomes overly familiar — there is an argument that it would be a better use of one’s time to head off to new places. But there are a lot more positives in my experience, including becoming more intimately familiar with a place you thought you knew. I find new subjects on every return visit to the Eastern Sierra, despite having photographed there for decades.

This photograph (along with a few others from the same location) is a case in point. I had passed this spot for years, barely stopping to give it a look, and to the best of my knowledge never photographing it. On this visit I spotted a lovely little creek nearby that I had overlooked, and once I started paying attention to its surroundings I became aware of these beautiful trees.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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Photographs: Fall, Photographs: Fall Color, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: New England

New Hampshire Hills, Autumn

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“New Hampshire Hills, Autumn” — An autumn view across hazy New England hills in New Hampshire.

If I recall correctly, this was our first morning out and about on the Kancamagus Parkway, that popular fall color route in New Hampshire. We had driven over it late previous day when we arrived to check into a hotel, but there had been little time to stop and photograph. So the next morning we got up early and headed back up into the hills to start photography.

This is perhaps not the most colorful New England autumn photograph. In fact, I think it might be a bit more like my California landscape photographs in some ways. The colors are there, but they are muted by the early morning atmosphere and light. The photograph looks across a series of ridges and into the far distance where morning clouds have not yet lifted.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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Carpet of Color

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“Carpet of Color” — A nearly unbroken carpet of colorful autumn trees in New Hampshire.

As I have shared New England fall color photographs you may nave noticed that I often contrast that spectacle with my more familiar western aspen groves. One of the main reasons I made this photograph was practical — I wanted to illustrate just how significant that difference is. Aspens in California tend to cluster in relatively small and separate groves. Even the larger groves are typically surrounded by conifers, scrub, or open terrain. In autumn, the effect is often to produce small areas of color set off against areas with little or no fall color.

This photograph illustrates the difference in New England. I made it near a high point on New Hampshire’s “Kancamagus Scenic Byway, ” among the most popular places for viewing East Coast autumn color. You are looking down at a hardwood forest full of different trees of different colors. And the trees shown here are a tiny fraction of the forest that was spread out before me, rising from valleys toward the high ridges — with almost everywhere the same wild blanket of colors.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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New England Leaves

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“New England Leaves” — Close-up photograph of New England autumn leaves, New Hampshire.

This miniature landscape comes from our visit to New England to photograph fall color a couple of years ago. (Wow, has it really been two years?!) With the help of some New England natives who set us straight on timing, we showed up at exactly the peak of color in this area of New Hampshire. More accurately, we arrived a day or two ahead of the peak and left the day after. Yes, it changed that quickly, and on our final morning it was apparent to use that the colors, while still remarkable, were starting their inevitable fade out.

But this photograph came from that peak day or just before. Almost every imaginable autumn color was present that day, I think I managed to squeeze most of them into this photograph of an area measuring not more than a couple of square feet. I’d like to tell a story of how hard I had to search for this scene, but the truth is that colors like this were everywhere — and I made the photograph at the quiet end of a parking lot filled with leaf-peepers.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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