Fall Is In The Air

  As most of you know already it's that time to get the camera out, gatherup the family and get into the car and head up to the mountains to view the reds, oranges, golds, and yellows on thew aspen trees. As you get up there into the mountains the cars are parked everywhere, even in the middle of the road.
  Well a couple weeks ago I grabbed my camera and gear along with the my wife and daughter and we headed up to a favorite location of mine in Park County. My original intention of going was to take photos of my daughter for her school pictures. I also took some family photos and some photos of just the wife and I. I even got the wife to pose for a few shots and I even took some self portraits. Took all the photos in a grove of aspen trees, with the way the light was it made everything golden. The leaves seed as if they were glowing. I only had to use the flash a few times. I also got some photos of the aspen trees. By the time I got done taking pictures that golden glow was disappearing as the sun was starting to set.
  I was really pleased with the way my portraits turned out.

This photo is in Park County at one of my favorite aspen grove locations. The leaves here are big compared to some other places.

Window Rock

While out on Fremont CR #77 I saw this rock off in the distance. I'm not sure how far it was.  But when I saw it I knew that iwas going to have to use my telephoto lens. So I broke out the camera and put on my EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 lens. I had the lens fully extended to 300mm. I would have like to been a little closer to the formation, but it was on private property. At this point I would normally break out the tripod, but a gave it a try to see how steady I would be. I snapped the picture and it was not blurry at all so I kept the photo.  This is what I got.

It came out pretty good. But I would have much rather had some clouds in the picture. Plain blue sky to me make the picture look boring.  My Camera settings on the picture were:
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture:9.0
Here is the picture after I tone mapped it in Photomatix.