This set of photographs from Southern Utah (Zion, Dixie National Forest, Capitol Reef, and Arches) mostly features fall color.
As a photographer of (and author of a book about) California Sierra Nevada aspens, I'm always impressed by how different the aspens are elsewhere, including in much of Utah. While the Sierra does have some groves of tall, straight aspen trees, most of the trees we see here are stunted, twisted, and grow together densely. So these immense, wide-open groves of tall and straight trees really get my attention.
A couple of the photographs include more mixed autumn colors, for example in places where the aspen groves run into the surrounding brush. One (from Capitol Reef) includes a like of autumn cottonwood trees along a stream beneath a sky filled with unusual cloud shapes. Another focuses on a less-visited area of Zion National Park in its high country. Finally, I sneaked in one photograph that is just plain rocks, so it cold have been made in almost any season — a detail from a large tower at Arches National Park.
(For the Canon forum, these were made with a couple of different 5D-series bodies and various EF L lenses.)
