Again, mostly photographs and few words.
Just one comment to wrap up this post. Viewers will note that I’ve include color versions of a few images that were then converted to black and white with selective colorization to add emphasis.
Stay tuned for the wrap up for my September 2020 Rio Grande National Forest visit.
Ken
I continued to shoot, under the overcast sky, in an upper elevation Aspen forest, where the ground was covered with fall leaves and an abundance of old logs and stumps of fallen trees.
The stump above reminds me of the skeleton skull of a longhorn steer that one might find in a desert setting.
I found a batch of young evergreens among the large Aspens decorated by fallen Aspen leaves.
This wraps up the mid-day exploration and shoot and I want to remind viewers that the images look much better on the website or on Flickr (if posted there) and on a large screen, rather than in an e-mail or small mobil device screen.
Thanks for following and stay tuned for the final late day shoot,
Ken
After our morning shoot, my son wanted to explore some of the other Forest Service Roads nearby, so we drove along several of those and into higher elevations, where most of the trees had already lost most of their leaves.
It was an overcast day and the dispersed light was good for photographing in the forest.
With the trees mostly bare, the forest floor was covered in fallen leaves.
A vertical shot with a wide angle, standing to the side of a batch of Aspens, made those trees appear at an angle, rather than vertical.
I found many stumps of old fallen trees with the roots sticking out at various angles that made interesting subjects.
And old logs covered with fallen Aspen leaves.
To be continued,
Ken
This post is a continuation of photography in the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado during the final morning of photography this September.
Many of my photos from today are of more of the small details seen in a forest.
Stay tuned for mid-day and afternoon of our final day in the Rio Grande National Forest,
Ken
We went into the forest that surrounded our campsite again this morning. It is getting more difficult to find scenes that are significantly different than others that have already been photographed.
I’m drawn to the geometry created by the old, fallen tree trunks, intersecting at various angles and directions.
I’m trying to give more attention to the small, intimate details in the forest.
Occasionally, I find stumps that indicate a tree has been purposely cut down. I do not know why, but I suspect they were felled by hunters to make their hunting blinds, which I have seen scattered around the forest.
More later,
Ken
