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,
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.