September 20, 2012
Orange Aspen in the San Juan National Forest, Colorado

We photographed the fall color in the San Juan Mountains yesterday. My favorite image is of an unusual group of orange aspens — most aspens turn yellow. It was made in the morning before the hillside received sunlight, and the diffuse light and polarizer helped bring out the colors. A polarizer in the shade you ask? Yes, it helped remove the reflections that would have given the image a blue/cyan cast from the reflected sky.