{"id":8066,"date":"2018-09-30T22:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:34:40","slug":"fall-colors-in-the-mountains-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/fall-colors-in-the-mountains-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors In The Mountains, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I spent a couple of days camping in the mountains and viewing the fall colors. At sunrise at Lost Lake, I headed to the water’s edge. With no wind blowing during the early morning, the lake behaved like a mirror, reflecting fall colors in the water.<\/p>\n

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Morning Reflections At Lost Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

I found these tree stumps at the shore, and created this image with East and West Beckwith Mountains reflecting in the background.<\/p>\n

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Tree Root Stumps At Lost Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

Later in the afternoon, I explored the area at the base of Ohio Pass. These aspens caught my eye because they turned orange-red instead of the more common yellow-gold.<\/p>\n

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Red Aspen, Ohio Pass<\/p><\/div>\n

The following morning I headed towards the Silver Jack area, where I knew there are plenty of aspen trees in the area. I made this infra-red image of the aspen trees lining the dirt road.<\/p>\n

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Aspen Near Silver Jack Reservoir<\/p><\/div>\n

This final image was made as I headed up Ohio Pass that afternoon. The strong sunlight creates intense colors when back-lighting the aspen forests.<\/p>\n

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Aspen Forests, Ohio Pass<\/p><\/div>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I spent a couple of days camping in the mountains and viewing the fall colors. At sunrise at Lost Lake, I headed to the water’s edge. With no wind blowing during the early morning, the lake behaved like a mirror, reflecting fall colors in the water. I found these tree stumps at […]<\/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":true,"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":[5],"tags":[1034,239,1536,472,1532,89,28,1535,1534,1533],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-aspen-trees","tag-fall-colors","tag-forests","tag-infrared","tag-lost-lake","tag-mountains","tag-reflections","tag-silver-jack","tag-tree-stumps","tag-warer"],"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