Fall color

[Steve Foss]

We've been having a lot of fun posting pics on the birdwatching board.

Here are a few of fall color. Early for that? Not up here. There was frost in some places this morning, and we've got some early fall color going on among the drought-stressed maples and aspen. Ferns have burned up, dogbane's turned bright yellow, and you can see it coming.

Here's some of last year's work. Couple standard "landscapes" of fall color followed by close-up work. I've kept them all fairly small so they'll load fast and won't be bigger than the screen on everyone's monitors.

I especially like close work because looking inward can say more of what you're trying to say than looking outward. Plus, if it's a windy day you can successfully capture images at slow shutter speeds on the forest floor, where the wind ain't.

Rookie Pond, Fernberg Road near Ely

Blackstone Lake Trail, near Ely

Little Indian Sioux River, Echo Trail (polarizer made color leap out and darkened background)

Salsify and maples, burned over logging cut, Echo Trail

Little Indian Sioux River (eight-second exposure, tripod and polarizer)

Dew on bigtooth aspen, Secret Lake Trail

caterpillar on maple leaf, Echo Trail

[HawgTide]

Awesome work!

[Matt Johnson]

Those are some incredible pictures!

Good Fishin,

Matt Johnson

[Cooter]

Impressive indeed. You must have been using a disposable

[Tom Wilson]

SF,

The rushing water pano is beautiful. Very nice.

[Steve Foss]

Thanks Tom. You've gotta love that tannin bog stain in the water. It's one of the images on the Web site, and the image came almost by accident.

Cooter: See the other thread on secret cameras.

[jonny_redhorse]

Thanks Steve for starting the new "fall colors" thread...I'm sure we'll all be posting on this one!...here's a few from last fall..... jonny

"beauty mountain"

"dollar lake"..just north of chisholm...

trapper's cabin...

[pokegpike]

Ausable River, NY:

[Tom Wilson]

Jonny,

Again man, absolutely awesome... Another subject that I don't have a lot of as far as what most people would think of for fall color, but here's a couple including some hunt pics that kind of fit the bill...

and this one was a custom shot that I did for walleynutz last year as he wanted a shot of him and his dog that was suitable for framing and hanging on the wall.

[jonny_redhorse]

Went for a walk this morning and amazed how much the woods is changing just from last weekend!...maples are really starting to turn....ferns are "yellowing"....forest is taking on the "glow of fall"...here's a few pics of this years early fall change...jonny

first few red maples:

"death angels"..amanita's(eat those crystals like salt,you'll be in la la land.lol!)

"golden ferns"

and a cherry-faced meadowhawk dragon fly..these guys are tough,fly right up to frost!

[jonny_redhorse]

the wonderful change of seasons...guess I just love fall!....taken this morning by a small lake near Hibbing....jonny

[jonny_redhorse]

taken yesterday morning on the carey lake ski trail near Hibbing...yellows are forming in the maples...

[jonny_redhorse]

I just can't believe how fast the leaves are changing this year!......took these close to my home this morning(Hibbing)..jonny

and another....

a good place for "grouse"...

red maples...

[jonny_redhorse]

thought i'd share a few more early fall pics......not "to many" posting theirs!.....maybe I have the only colored trees in northern minnesota ...jonny

[Deitz Dittrich]

pretty stuff jonny....

[Northlander]

Great Pictures guys! Steve can ya e-mail me some of those fall pics of yours I would love to use them as screen savers. [email protected] Thanks.

[jonny_redhorse]

thanks guys!...just like getting out to see the colors change even from day to day!...here's another "close-up"...one of my favorites from this last week-end...jonny

[Green&Gold]

Northlander,

Can't you just right click on the picture and select "set as background?" Usually works for me. JH

[WifeKidsandDog]

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[jonny_redhorse]

a couple more fall pics....love the subtleties of the "macros"..one lone yellowed aspen leaf with rain drops(took this pic an hour ago)...just a "different " look at a lone leaf....jonny

woodland scene

[pokegpike]

Upsate NY 04 Fall

Friend's cabin near near Aspen CO

[jonny_redhorse]

taken 2 days ago....I liked the combination of the different types of leaves all together....and the colors of each......jonny

[Blaze]

Cheryl - I love the goose & ducks! That one brought a huge smile to my face. Where was that picture taken? And where is Mineral Springs Park?

[jonny_redhorse]

maples on on an old cut-off stump...

color change

blue and gold

[WifeKidsandDog]

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Cheryl - I love the goose & ducks! That one brought a huge smile to my face. Where was that picture taken? And where is Mineral Springs Park?

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Hi Blaze, glad you like the goose and ducks. I've won a couple of photo competitions with that shot. It was taken at Morehouse Dam in Owatonna, which is where Mineral Springs Park is, too.

Cheers

Cheryl P.