Before winter, we get to experience an incredible transition. We get to see mountain after mountain painted with bright yellow, orange, and red. Combine this with the already beautiful blue haze of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and you have yourself one colorful sight to see for sure.
The peak colors are happening in different areas very soon. During our hikes(photos to come) we saw some great forest color, both up high and carpeting the forest floor.
I would like to encourage you to get out, take a drive(even better, walk) through nature and soak it all in. Soon enough, it will all be gone, and we will be waiting for green again.
Below are two images from our last morning in the park. We got up REALLY early to catch the moonrise, only to find out that I had the iphone app set to the wrong day, giving us an hour at an overlook to sleep in the car.
After a quick predawn nap, we headed for an overlook that was closed to cars... Ivy Creek I think. The sunrise was incredibly colorful, even for a cloudless morning.
As soon as the sun came up(this was one of the last images I took) we headed for a different overlook facing the other direction. We drove past an opening in the road and, instead of driving to the overlook, parked the car on the shoulder and set up there. The harvest moon only comes once a year, and I felt it was very important to capture it. There is nothing extra spectacular about a harvest moon that isn't just as spectacular every other full moon, it's simply the first full moon after the beginning of fall:)
Enjoy... and get outside! If you need a hiking partner... you've got one in me!
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| A sunrise captured by the Sigma 50mm set to f16(the smallest aperture) for the sunstar effect. |
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| The fading harvest moon captured by a Canon 70-200 2.8 L. |
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