fall

I took this last month, but just now took the time to process it. The background bokeh was pretty harsh so I took the time to select the leaves, copy and paste them as a separate layer, then blur the background with a number of filters, then finally resize, and sharpen just the leaf layer.

I always make an effort to get to Yosemite and shoot the Dogwoods in bloom in early May, it has dawned on me that Dogwoods bloom twice, or at least feel like they bloom twice since in the fall while there are now flowers blooming, their leaves sure seem to bloom with cool orange and red colors...

Literally, I was looking down on the fall color even as my spirit was soaring high from the fall colors. :) These are from a few weeks ago in Yosemite National Park. I can really get stuck in looking and seeing the world around me in a certain way (Wide Angle). So I tried to mix it up a bit in...

Aspen trunks in the height of their fall color in the Hope Valley, south of Lake Tahoe.

Mt.-Loop-10.2.18-17-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Nov 4, 2018 at 6:29 AM DJI Mavic 2 Pro Pano, taken from The Blue Bridge near the entrance to The Mountain Loop.

I just missed meeting up with Kyle and Jim Sanderson in Yosemite early this week, but I didn't miss the fall colors. It was awesome there. This is from the Mariposa Grove of Sequoia trees. It's an area more known for it's Sequoia trees but is also a great place for fall colors. All comments are...

Shot this week up The Mountain Loop Highway in Washington's central Cascades, near my house. I finally went out and found some copyright free music so I can freely publish this.

A bit precarious getting my tripod in place for this view down Lye Brook, just below the falls, VT.

Edward Hopper Oil Paint filter in Topaz Impression

I've already mentioned a number of threads about our disappointing trip back east last week looking for fall color. What made it doubly funny was the great fall the NW has been seeing. This is my favorite spot in our neighborhood half a block from my house.

This was before the sun poked it's head through the very small hole on the horizon at Dallas Divide in the San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado. It was dark, very dark out still and the clouds were moving up in the sky pretty fast so I decided to put the 10 stop ND on to make it even darker so I...

This is from a few weeks back up by Dallas Divide in the San Juan Mountains in SW Colorado. It was one of those totally thick cloudy and rainy mornings, the kind where you think there is no point in photographing as it will be too cloudy. And then you go out to photograph anyway. :) So out I...

As I spend more time here at the FW site, I find more fascinating forums filled with awesome images! I have almost never capture any abstract images, and this one here is a bit of a cliche', but even so I was surprised at how it came out. Since we are still at least at the tail end of the leaf...

This was from the stormy morning that brought the first dusting of snow to the San Juan Mountains in SW Colorado and to Mt Sneffels. Woke up to it raining/snowing and very overcast with the mountains being blocked from view up on the Dallas Divide off Hwy 62. I didn't get out to shoot at first...

While shooting in Colorado on CR 7 in the San Juan Mountains not far from Ridgway, the sunset turned epic in pretty short order. While I had shot the clouds with Mt Sneffel in the composition, I couldn't ignore this hillside just to the left. While there are no mountains in view at this angle...

Well, the title actually may not make a lot of sense, but the sunset did kind of pick up and snowball itself into something pretty cool. And this was the day after the first dusting of snow on the peaks which we had been not so patiently waiting for. So this is Mt Sneffels in the San Juan...

One of the sunrise's when I was up in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming with the FocalWorld gang. This particular sunrise I decided to take advantage of the angle I had seen Alan shooting at the day before, and it actually worked out well since the colors were to the south of the peak and only for a...

While up in Bishop last Sunday to meet up with a bunch of the FocalWorld members, I had the chance to shoot a bit. I rarely shoot tighter and close in shots, but for once I remembered. http://www.focalworld.com/index.php?threads/eastern-sierra-fall-color-2018-meetup-with-photos.6269/ The...

Colorado - Ouray CR 10 Chimney Rock - Video Travel Guide Creating Travel Guides is something that I have desired and done to a limited degree in the past. This last summer though it hit me that doing a Video Travel Guide as opposed to using just still photos is the real direction that I wanted...

Colorado - San Juan Mountains - Ouray County Road 5 - Video Travel Guide Creating Travel Guides is something that I have desired and done to a limited degree in the past. This last summer though it hit me that doing a Video Travel Guide as opposed to using just still photos is the real...