05-22-13 May Showers

I went out in the cold rain the other day and took about 50 photos, mostly of crabapple tree blooms ready to burst. But in my back yard I was struck by the wet aspen leaves stuck together and backlit by the sky. This is one of the last photos I took but it's the one I ended up liking most.

I offer both a color version and a black and white version. Take your pick between the "reality" of green tree leaves or the texture, lines and light that make up the "bones" of the photo.

Canon 5DIII 1/60s f/7.1 ISO200 168mm

10-26-12 Aspen

Well, how about another golden aspen tree? This photo was taken a few years ago near Center Lake in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

10-10-12 Touch the Sky

Aspen Leaves Again

I suppose you could say that this is the second is a series. I'll call the series "Three From the Same Tree." Today, the dominant color is yellow, which one would expect from aspen trees.

Variations On A Theme

Once, a while back when I thought that I should try to make some money from my photography, I started to make a set of photo greeting cards. This was one of them. I may have posted this aspen grove before but not with the Photoshop filters. Frankly, I use very little "effects" in my photography. I suppose I still think like I'm shooting film and I try to create the effects with the camera.My "card project" is dormant. The aspen grove is flourishing.