I continued to wander about in a portion of the Rio Grande National Forest in the early morning looking for whatever caught my eye, attempting to get a few decent photographs.
I made a couple of compositions with this evergreen surrounded by the tall Aspens, but I do not think that the resulting images convey what I was seeing or feeling here.
The same is true of this photograph of the remnant of a burned tree trunk. I tried multiple compositions here and I just could not capture the scene the way it moved me. I think the lack of light on the burned out tree trunk made it too difficult to capture the emotions this stirred in me as I viewed it; although, this image does look better when viewed on a large screen.
I do like this single Aspen leaf laying on the forest floor, highlighted by a beam of sunlight with most of its surroundings in shadow.
A little later, I came back to the burned out tree trunk and shot it from a different point of view and got what I think is a better image with it surrounded by fallen, weathered Aspen trunks.
Shooting from about the same spot, but looking up towards the sky, I got this image.
Then looking down towards the forest floor:
Continuing my walkabout, I found this old stump with an Aspen leaf resting on it:
Then this moss covered, rotting log on the forest floor:
And one final image looking up towards the sky:
That’s all for this morning’s activity,
Ken
That last photo of the towering Aspens is so dramatic! I love it!
Thanks, Shutterpug. Now I’m glad I took the time to make yet another image looking up into those tall trees.