Fall is one of my favorite times of year. Colors vary from year to year depending on the weather. It’s only a couple of months away depending on where you are located in the United States.
Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown.
The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colors or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American English.
ASPENS AND SNOW
Sometimes you can have glowing aspens and then have a dusting of snow at night that covers the mountain peaks. This photo was taken at the top of the flat tops outside of Steamboat Springs Colorado in late September.
Hang around and be patient, you never know what type of landscape photograph you might get. Patience pays off.
Driving up and down some farm roads you never know what type of landscape photos might await. Be sure to carry a wide angle lens for these types of photographs. Use between F11-F22 to get great depth of field and sharpness from front of photo to back.
Tripods are a must to be able to have a low ISO, something like 100. That will allow for less noise, and your shutter speed will be lower depending on the light.
I typically photograph with a polarizer for the fall. It brightens the colors, takes glare away, especially around water.
WILD MUSTANGS
There’s something about being out in nature, next to wild animals and capturing the moment with them through photographs.
Long ago all horses were wild animals. They ran free in large herds, or bands across the vast grasslands all over the world.
In 1971 a federal law was passed that banned capturing, harming or killing free-roaming horses or burros on public land. The care and management of the wild horse herds on federal land was turned over to the Bureau of Land Management. Today about 50,000 wild horses live on private ranches, wildlife refuges, Native American reservations, federal land and in sanctuaries. Nearly all of the ranges are rugged and dry environments where the wild horses must work hard to survive. The future of wild horses on federal ranges is now in transition as the court system battles the status of the ban on wild horse slaughter.
