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.

More HWY 88 Fall Colors

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

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.

Fall colors are on the way

I took the kids up to Crystal Mine yesterday to do some digging around and along the way several of the groves of trees are starting to turn yellow. On the way out we pulled over and walked around one set of trees for a few minutes so I could get my first few fall photos of the season. This is just the start of the fall season when the leaves are making their color change so hopefully I will have a lot more fall photos over the next month.
After we left we headed over to Truckee taking the dirt road that comes out by Stampede reservoir. As we were driving along I liked the way the light was on this mountain and took a few shots from different points along the road. This shot I also cropped down to give it the panoramic look.

More Fall Colors

This is another shot from the day I was out with my dad a few weeks back. Took this over between Truckee and Sierraville. The grove of trees we were in were at their peek and the yellows were really nice and bright.