Re: Fall Colors
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:55 pm
Thanks for the photos. Love all those vast aspen groves in the Rockies.
Well if I'm going to pull the trigger, it is going to need to be tomorrow for the SR108 drive out to the Bridgeport zone and then some bumpy dirt road grove site checking. Then Wednesday and Thursday for serious work at optimal times. Like how the breezes are so uncommonly for this time of year low that will be a boon for more intimate leaf on branches subjects with my newish 85mm. But really just have one target zone that is extra special.
Wind arrives Friday when I ought be leaving while a wimpy windy fall storm looks like showers Saturday, even snow showers up high for peak coatings. Good for leaf on ground shots I don't really need any more of and not I wise target after such a droughty year with much late season brown dryness. Don't expect to stick around for that storm event so likely return Friday mid morning, dawdling on the return drive along SR108 at places Pacific dogwood and Black oak usually present leaf color. Will spend dawns at Mono Lake County Park shores that requires a lengthy walk from its parking lot. Much familiar disperse camping near a creek not far away will may the dark rise and drive possible. The drought has uncovered myriad small rock islets at that northwest end of the lake for reflection photo aesthetics with the sun rising south of due east putting it across the miles of lake. If its that quiet in Bridgeport, the same atmospheric forces are likely in the Mono Lake basin.
Unfortunately this weekend came down with an intermittent tooth ache issue that could abscess though don't expect that. Tomorrow may just get up if tooth is quiet and get it organized. The 550 miles round trip will be 22 gallons of gas or about $130. So not easy to pull a trigger on.
Well if I'm going to pull the trigger, it is going to need to be tomorrow for the SR108 drive out to the Bridgeport zone and then some bumpy dirt road grove site checking. Then Wednesday and Thursday for serious work at optimal times. Like how the breezes are so uncommonly for this time of year low that will be a boon for more intimate leaf on branches subjects with my newish 85mm. But really just have one target zone that is extra special.
Wind arrives Friday when I ought be leaving while a wimpy windy fall storm looks like showers Saturday, even snow showers up high for peak coatings. Good for leaf on ground shots I don't really need any more of and not I wise target after such a droughty year with much late season brown dryness. Don't expect to stick around for that storm event so likely return Friday mid morning, dawdling on the return drive along SR108 at places Pacific dogwood and Black oak usually present leaf color. Will spend dawns at Mono Lake County Park shores that requires a lengthy walk from its parking lot. Much familiar disperse camping near a creek not far away will may the dark rise and drive possible. The drought has uncovered myriad small rock islets at that northwest end of the lake for reflection photo aesthetics with the sun rising south of due east putting it across the miles of lake. If its that quiet in Bridgeport, the same atmospheric forces are likely in the Mono Lake basin.
Unfortunately this weekend came down with an intermittent tooth ache issue that could abscess though don't expect that. Tomorrow may just get up if tooth is quiet and get it organized. The 550 miles round trip will be 22 gallons of gas or about $130. So not easy to pull a trigger on.