Aspen Color – Wall of Leaves
Posted on 21 November 2010
Aspen Color - Wall of Leaves
Aspen Color – Wall of Leaves. Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. October 2, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A nearly solid wall of brilliant fall aspen leaf color in the eastern Sierra Nevada.
This is going to be the first in a short series of “frame filled with foliage” photographs that I’ll post. Although I think they work best as prints – and fairly large ones at that – I’d like to share these since they are something a bit different that I’ve been working on.
Sometimes I’m just so impressed by the sheer density and complexity of the foliage that I’m tempted to just point that camera at them and click. It might look like that is what is going on here, but I am also trying (remember, “trying!”) to find some sort of pattern and form in these very complex textures. This photograph was made in a small aspen grove that was essentially at the color peak – only a very small number of partly green leaves remained, yet most of the transformed leaves were still on the tree. If you have chased aspen color, you know how difficult it can be to find the leaves at just this point!
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Similar image taken 10/20/2010, Sonora Pass:
http://tomkiddphoto.com/Visgallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=287#top_display_media
Beautiful, Tom! :-)
Dan
Aspens are clonal in nature which is the reason large expanses are often one shade during the fall color season. Congratulations on first locating such a magnificent scene and secondly capturing it in such a way that brings out the glory of fall colors. Incredible Shot!!!
Dave
Thanks, Dave. One of my favorite examples of this phenomenon is at Conway Summit, just north of Lee Vining. There, different groups of trees change colors at different times and change to different shades. You’ll see a row of green trees, a row of yellow tree, a group of orange trees and so on.
Dan
Will have to spend more time in the Conway Summit area next year. Thought you might enjoy this site. It has several pages of information about aspens.
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/communities/aspen/grow.shtml
Thanks again for sharing your great images!
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