Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Last of the Fall color


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Fall color is fading fast in the Cascades, these shots where taken just out side Plain, Wa. near Lk Wenatchee.

Ross

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Three Days in The Tetons

Cathedral Group, 2 shot panorama.

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Image: 5D Mk II, 300 f2.8 IS L, EF 1.4x, f11, 1/320 sec.

Image: 5D MkII, 300 f2.8 IS L, iso 400, f3.2, 1/200 sec

Image: 5D Mk II, 300 f2.8 IS L, EF 1.4x, f11, 1/100 sec

Image: 5D Mk II, 70-200 f4 IS L, 70mm, f16, 1/2 sec.
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Image: 5D Mk II, 16-35 II L, 16mm, f11, 1/160sec.
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What to do with three days in the Tetons ? hmmmm, so much to see and do, not really enough time for back country hikes, but there are so many places to shoot and a lot are right off the road.

Places like Snake river overlook, Oxbow Bend, Schwabackers Landing, Mormon Row, the list goes on, one place I love to shoot is Cathedral group with a 300mm lens, this an impressive set of peaks, including Teewinot, Grand Teton and Mt Owen, viewed from the north.

The Barns of course at Mormon Row or the classic Ansel Adams shot from Snake river overlook, not enough sunrises on this trip, so I'll be going back, maybe a winter shoot next time.

Best time to go, Fall, followed by spring, then winter and finally summer, well maybe winter will move up on the list : ) that's the only time I've not been there.

Not far from the Tetons is the Wind River Range, another impressive Rocky mountain range, the Cirque of Towers at Wind River is high on my list of future treks.

Wyoming has some of the most beautiful scenery in the Rockies and wildlife abounds like few other places.

Ross

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Fall at Mt Rainier National Park

Paradise Valley
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Paradise Valley
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If you have time in the next week to visit Mt Rainier, I highly recommend you do so. Mt Rainier puts on a fall show that's hard to beat, rivaled only by the spring bloom, in ways as good as the fall show in New England.

The color is coming mostly from Blueberry bushes that grow all over the Cascade range, the bears go through this like harvester machines, fattening up for their winter long sleep and can be seen at the park stuffing their furry faces full of over ripe blueberrys.
Black Bear fall 2009
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It was overcast for my visit but I hope to be back for some good weather this coming week end, the color should last another week.

You may also get to see a black and silver phase Red Fox I have seen on a couple of recent shoots at Mt Rainier.

Winter 2009
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Fall is Coming whether we like it or not


Image: Fall Aspen in Grand Teton, 50D, 300 f4 IS L.

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Fall may be the best time of year to get out and shoot landscapes, I'm having a hard time trying to decide on where to go, but I think I may end up in the Canadian Rockies and Glacier N.P. Montana, I just fell in love with that place last year, but most places, at least in the Northern hemisphere have fall color to shoot in late September and early October, even out in the desert South West, as a matter of fact the Pacific North West has some great fall color, to see it you need to get up in the mountains or on the east slope of the Cascade range. Probably the best here would be the Alpine Lakes Wilderness or the Mt Baker area along with Mt Rainier National Park.
So make your plans now and be ready, its a short window of time. The above image was taken in the first week of October last year in Grand Teton N.P. Wyoming. For you photog's in the Southern hemisphere, well you have spring coming up, the other great time of year to shoot. One of these days I will shoot Patagonia in the fall, if some one wants to invite me down just drop me a line....

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