I wanted to share another set of some of my favorite images from this fall trip, highlighting the aspens and maples in canyons and mountains of Utah. As I write this I’ve been traveling through cold, overcast Illinois with no color in sight, and it has felt like medicine to my eyeballs tonight as I scrolled through all this color! I’m grateful for the time out in these locations and already looking forward to more in 2026.
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All images shot on a couple of A7RV bodies with Sigma 14-24mm, Sony 24-105mm, and Tamron 50-400mm lenses. All RAW files were developed in Lightroom and I chose color profiles individually according to what I wanted from each file.
Lovely set all around! I like the compositions with contrasting colors and isolated elements best. That really makes the images stand apart and highlights what makes a great photo an excellent one from my stand point.
Still stunning to a southern Californian. Living in suburban Southern California, fall color is pretty limited, mostly decorative plantings. Our "4 season" shift is happening, but it's the rolling hills greening up. The early rains, which were quite heavy but short in duration, spurred the grasses to grow and washed the dirt and dust off the trees.
Not that I'd suggest moving to avoid real winters but I do recall a few business trips to the upper mid-west in late October and early November and how dreary it seemed with the leafless trees and the lawns fading away.
40Driggs wrote:
Lovely set all around! I like the compositions with contrasting colors and isolated elements best. That really makes the images stand apart and highlights what makes a great photo an excellent one from my stand point.
