Hiking Mt. Rose

I think every year we do a hike or two in the fall and ask ourselves why we don't get out and hike more during the warmer months as we live so close to many different scenic areas. This fall I did get the kids out on a few hikes to enjoy our area, although they are guaranteed to be forced on a few hikes to go exploring for fall colors to photograph.

These photos are from a hike I took the kids on up on Mt. Rose in October. The trail we were on will take you all the way up on top of Mt. Rose Summit and we made it.....well....not very far as they got a little chilly where the trail goes threw the shaded areas. The portion of the trail we did hike had some nice views of the valleys below and the kids had fun climbing on the rocks and doing some exploring.

I think we did more hiking this year and hopefully next year we will do even more.

Galena Creek

These were all taken in the Galena Creek area last week before the storm hit.

Snowy Hike

Beth and I went out the other day to central Nevada to see if we could fill my tag, however we could not find any deer.While we did not find any deer we did enjoy the hiking we did in the area we were in. The mountains were covered in a couple inches of snow and the views were really nice. One canyon we hiked up had aspens that were on the tail end of their fall color but the colors against the white snow made a nice contrast. These are just a couple of the images I took that day while we were out.

Fall Colors

Been pretty busy dealing with sick kids around here but I was able to get out last Sunday morning for a bit to photograph some fall colors. For these I went up into the Dog Valley area where I knew there were some decent Aspen groves. I am hoping I will be able to get out some more before all the leaves are gone.

Jumping Back to Fall Colors

Took a jump back today to play with a few more of my images from this last fall. Something I need to get better at is keeping only the images I know I want and getting more aggressive with the ones that need to be deleted. I also need to get better at processing all the photos I take just after they have been taken. I think the fall colors and the Reno Air Races are the two things I usually have a problem doing this with as I end up taking a lot of pictures of these two things, so it ends up being a lot to go through to get rid of the stuff that needs to go and edit the stuff I want to keep. Maybe next I will jump into some of the Air Race photos I still want to edit and put a couple more up here.....

More HWY 88 Fall Colors

These are a couple more shots from a few weeks ago up on highway 88.

Urban Decay In Fall

This location is just outside of Virgina City and I am not totally sure what it used to be but I would guess they are some structures that used to be used in mining that are now decaying away over time. I was there with Bryan who was shooting a short film project at this location and I like how the changing colors of fall were looking against the old concrete structures.

Leaves

One thing I like to do when I am taking fall color pictures is to find other ways to photograph things besides the overall view of the trees (which I also like). I will end up taking a lot of different photos from the leaves close up to a shot that shows a lot of leaves scattered about. I will usually just see something with in a setting that catches my eye and take anywhere from a few shots to several shots, recomposing and looking for the best angle or way to frame the shot, much like I do for any landscape shots. In the end I will usually get several photographs like these that I really like. These are just a few of the ones I took in this way last week up on HWY 88.

Fall Colors on HWY 88

Here are a couple shots from a drive I took with Tom up HWY 88 last weekend to look at the fall colors. These were taken up in the Hope Valley area.