This is a continuation of my fall photography along Tower Ridge Road in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness, Indiana in the fall of 2023.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 16 – Backroads and Forest
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Indiana Fall 2023, Part 15 – Backroads and Forest
After my woodland hike, I drove to the old forest fire lookout tower on Tower Ridge Road in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness. There were quite a few visitors and I elected not to climb the tower to get a wide view over the forest. Instead, I hiked along Tower Ridge Road, shooting forest scenes along the roadway.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 14 – Backroads and Forest
More photos from a hike along an Indian forest trail in the fall of 2023.
This wraps up my hike and photography along this forest trail. Upon arriving back at my vehicle, I drove on along the forest roadway, looking for more fall scenes to photograph.
More later,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 13 – Backroads and Forest
Even more photos from a hike in an Indiana forest, fall 2023.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 12 – Backroads and Forest
More photos from an Indiana fall forest.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 8 – Autumn in Brown County State Park
After my sunrise shoot in Brown County State Park, I drove around the park, stoping at various locations, walking along the roadway, shooting the autumn color.
I included the roadway in a number of images, mostly as a leading line, but also because the road through the forest just looked so appealing. I hope I have not put too much of the asphalt into these images.
Well, I’m back to my vehicle, so time to move on to another location,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 7, Sunrise Sequence, Brown County State Park
I went into Brown County State Park again for sunrise photography, this time stoping at one of the overlooks. It was another morning with scattered clouds and good cloud color.
Shooting into the bright sky and getting a good exposure of the foreground fall color is a challenge and no matter how careful one is with the exposure and filter application, post processing of the images is a must.
These sunrise images have varying exposures, filter usage and post processing, yielding variations in the colors and details.
More Brown County State Park fall images next,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 3 – Backroad Photography
A good way to enjoy fall color in Indiana is via a simple drive along the tree lined roadways, especially the backroads, where there are few houses or commercial facilities to spoil the views. The roads make good leading lines, but I do worry about having too much road in the images, since the most interesting subject is not the roadway.
It is not always possible to find a safe place to pull over off of the roadways, but where possible, one can get fall forest images right beside the road.
Until next time,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 1
As has become a tradition, my wife and I spent a couple of weeks in Indiana in the fall of 2023. We stay in a cabin just a short distance outside of Brown County State Park, a popular park for fall leaf peepers.
I visited the park. on a number of our days in the vicinity, for photography and even when traveling to another destination, we most often took a route through the park just to enjoy the beautiful fall color in the park.
All of the photos in this post were shot at or near one of the overlooks within the park.
We had an interesting encounter at this location. I noted a park visitor on an electric bike and I asked him about his bike. He was kind enough to give me much information about the bike, its features and even how much he paid for it. When my wife joined in the conversation, she discovered that the biker and she had attended the same high school. Even though they attended the school some years apart, they knew some of the same people that were students at that school. Such a small world consequence!
Until next time,
Ken
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada – March 2023 – Part 27 – Final Sunset Shoot (Continued)
This is the final post for my March 2023 visit to Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
Sunset light turns these desert rock features into gold.
Sunset light fades away on the peaks. I’m so grateful for the natural lines and textures in the amazing geology and natural sculpture here, without which the photographs would not be nearly so interesting.
With a cache of fallen rocks in the eroded portion below the peak.
I could have yelled at this photographer for intruding into my composition, but I think he adds to the theme of photographing the geology here, as well as giving a human scale for reference.
Regular followers of this blog might recall that in an earlier post about this final sunset shoot I made a statement about thinking that there must be a better composition in the area where I made an early shot before sunset. Well, there was. I came back to that area, as the sun was very low in the sky, where I shot some of the images above. As I moved around the area, I found rocks that made very interesting foreground objects. These last three images are my best (I think) images from that location.
The rocks of Valley of Fire are the stars of this series, so it seem appropriate to name these last photos for those rocks.
Thanks for following this long series of blogs with photos from Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.
Until the next journey,
Ken