{"id":2829,"date":"2012-09-17T23:42:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T06:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2012-09-17T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T06:43:05","slug":"fall-colors-along-forest-road-709-wk-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/fall-colors-along-forest-road-709-wk-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors Along Forest Road 709 — wk 38"},"content":{"rendered":"

For three or four weeks every fall, our aspen forests in Colorado wear their fall colors before the leaves drop. Yesterday I made a trip down Shrine Pass. On a steep east-facing slope, these were the first aspen that are encountered.\u00a0 Most aspen trees that I have photographed in previous years were on relatively flat ground. At this location, the steep slope allows for an interesting composition.<\/p>\n

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Aspen Forest, Shrine Pass<\/p><\/div>\n

Climbing up the slope, I made several images. The following image was made close to the edge of the aspen forest, adjacent to the pine forest. I like the way the backlit leaves against the pine forest.<\/p>\n

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Aspen, Backlit By Afternoon Sun<\/p><\/div>\n

Most aspen trees have branches near their crowns. Lower down the branches break leaving behind triangular shaped scars. Here is one where some moss has settled on the scar.<\/p>\n

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Aspen Trunk Scar<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking down Shrine Pass we can see the magnificent fall colors on the east facing slope.<\/p>\n

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Fall Colors At Shrine Pass<\/p><\/div>\n

Earlier in the summer I made a similar image from this location<\/a> — under rainy, overcast skies with green forests.<\/p>\n

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Boulder And Aspen, Shrine Pass<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking towards the sun, the aspen trees light up with cheerful yellow and green leaves. I included the backlit foreground grasses to complement the trees.<\/p>\n

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Aspen And Grasses<\/p><\/div>\n

I made my way down forest road 709, where it meets the creek. Here is the view back across the bridge over the creek.<\/p>\n

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Forest Road 709<\/p><\/div>\n

The light on the aspen trees only lasted a few minutes longer before the slope fell into the shadows.<\/p>\n

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For three or four weeks every fall, our aspen forests in Colorado wear their fall colors before the leaves drop. Yesterday I made a trip down Shrine Pass. On a steep east-facing slope, these were the first aspen that are encountered.\u00a0 Most aspen trees that I have photographed in previous years were on relatively flat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[240,90,239,251,261,585,519],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-project52","tag-aspen","tag-creek","tag-fall-colors","tag-forest","tag-pine","tag-road","tag-shrine-pass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t