Last nights storm seems to have dealt the death blow to a glorious stretch of fall color.  It’s amazing how fast the leaves drop once they reach “the” point.  This is Wheeler Creek a few days past it’s prime, shot with a Singh Ray Vari ND filter to slow everything down and get that smooth blur on the water.

Was out for a quick hike yesterday afternoon in between football games as Tonka and I try to suck the last drops of marrow from this wonderful fall weather.  Came across this amazing waterfall that I’d only seen early in the spring when it’s a raging torrent.  Wish I would have had a vari ND filter with me to really try and do it justice.  No matter, I think this one will prove to be a good bit of groundwork for a  future image which isn’t a bad result for a dog walk.

Every once in a while there’s an image that slips through the cracks.  Either it wasn’t quite what you wanted it to be when it was shot or there just wasn’t a place for it in the portfolio.  No matter, it falls from your radar and vanishes into the abyss of hard drive space.  Like hitting a little lotto jackpot you one day stumble upon it while looking for something else or nothing at all.  I liked this image right off the bat for a variety of reasons.  First, it was the first snowfall in October of 2008 and that always puts a smile on my soul.  Second, the colors.  This thing had been hanging on the deck all summer and not once had I noticed the perfect color match between the house and the leaves.  Both the green and the purple are spot on for the foliage behind them.  Would have been cool if it was intentional but it’s crazy because the house was a gift from someone that had never been to our yard until they snuck in to hang it on the deck while we were out of town.  Anyway, I’m still not sure what to do with the image but I’m glad to have stumbled upon it again.

Fall colors on the grand scale are well past their peak in northern Utah now, but there are still plenty of smaller scenes that are evolving day to day.  Tonka and I headed up Beus Canyon this afternoon and were greeted with a few minutes of broken sunshine and some truly wonderful little gifts along the stream.  While both of us ended up with very wet feet, he was far more pleased by it than I was.  Most of these berry bunches where either all green or all red, but this one seemed to be facing some sort of internal struggle with it’s identity.

If anyone knows what species this vine is I’d love to know.

Tonka…keepin’ an eye on things while I shoot.

The alarm worked and I went out into the first hard frost of the season on the valley floors.  Temps in the 20′s made for a long wait as the sun and clouds did their thing over Mountain Green, UT.  This was a bit of filter chaos as I had an ND, reverse ND and a CP filter on the camera to try and balance out sky, foreground and the snow covered mountains.