Photography – Page 8 – California Fall Color

Fall Color Report, High Sierra, Photography

Postcard: Mono County at its Best – GO NOW!

Convict Lake (10/23/15) Alena Nicholas

Alena Nicholas traveled to Fern Creek Lodge on the June Lake Loop, this past weekend. Alena mentioned, when submitting these photos, that Jon – the 1927 resort’s owner – recently underwent surgery.

She hoped that mentioning his rustic and modern cabins – one of which is named after Ansel Adams – might lift Jon’s spirits.

June Lake Loop (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

Well, seeing Alena’s photographs certainly lifted ours, so much so that we’ve packaged the best and most representative of her shots in this postcard collection, providing several inspirational reasons to stay at Fern Creek Lodge.

Gull Lake (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

June Lake Loop (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

Lundy Canyon (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

Lundy Lake (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

They include images taken at Convict Lake, Gull Lake, June Lake Loop, Lundy Canyon and Lundy Lake.

We expected Alena to find peak color in Mono County, but didn’t expect how good it would be.

What is seen is that higher areas (Lundy Canyon) have been losing leaves, though a lot of color remains.

How long that will continue depends on whether wind strips the trees.

Along the June Lake Loop, many aspen are still patchy, with lots of green and lime yet to turn yellow and orange.

Spent leaves cover the forest floor, providing a colorful carpet near streams.

We have only two words for those who’d like to see such color… GO NOW!

Peak (75-100%) GO NOW! – June Lake, Convict Lake, Lundy Lake, Lundy Canyon

June Lake Loop (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

October 27, 2015/1 Comment/by John Poimiroo

Photography

Frost on the Pumpkin

Will there be frost on the pumpkin by Halloween?

According to reports received from color spotters, it’s already been happening in the Eastern Sierra, where nighttime temperatures are now in the 20s and dropping each night.

For Halloween, post your best pumpkin shot… pumpkin patches, carved pumpkins, plastic pumpkins, with CFC creds to anyone who shows frost on the pumpkin.

Here’s our take…

Target Pumpkins (10/17/15) John Poimiroo

October 26, 2015/by John Poimiroo

High Sierra, Photography

June Is Busting Out All Over

Willow Reflections, South of Silver Lake (10/24/15) David Olden

Lundy Canyon (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

Convict Lake Sunset (10/25/15) Alena Nicholas

June Lake Loop (10/24/15) Alena Nicholas

We’re beginning to receive reports and photos from color spotters who visited June Lake in the Eastern Sierra and who say it’s as good as it gets.

David Olden sent this image of willows reflected just south of Silver Lake. The area is still just turning, though conditions vary greatly throughout the Loop, “from green to bare,” he writes.

Alena Nicholas called to say June Lake was busting out all over. An extended report with Alena’s images will be posted on Tuesday. Here’s a sampling:

October 25, 2015/by John Poimiroo

High Sierra, Photography

Bishop Creek Continues To Deliver

Intake II, Bishop Creek Canyon (10/23/15) Gary Young Photography

Hwy 168, Bishop Creek Canyon (10/23/15) Gary Young Photography

Color spotter Gary Young of Bishop headed up the Bishop Creek Canyon yesterday and sent back these images of Intake II and Hwy 168 between Intake II and Aspendell.

Though the canyon is largely past peak, pockets of color provide beautiful imagery, as Gary found.

Intake II is one of those locations that most people visiting Bishop Creek often ignore, because it is late to turn, but it is the overlooked places that deliver some of the best images.

October 24, 2015/1 Comment/by John Poimiroo

Photography, Shasta Cascade

Postcard: Celestial Cascade

Castle Creek Confluence (10/18/15) Cory PooleCastle

The Shasta Cascade oughta be called the Celestial Cascade, considering what amazing dark sky viewing and photography is available there. It’s even better when a glimpse of fall color makes it into a photograph.

Here’s an image that Cory Poole took this past Sunday night of the Earth rotating under the stars at the confluence of Castle Creek and the Upper Sacramento River with the Castle Crags in full view. Heavenly!

October 22, 2015/by John Poimiroo

Fall Color Report, High Sierra, Photography, Shasta Cascade

Postcard: Gallimauphry

Sunrise Over Silver Lake (10/9/15) Nancy Wright

We’re now getting so many beautiful photographs of fall color each day, that sometimes there are just too many good ones to post separately.

So, Gallimauphry is our collection of assorted wonders. This collection includes some historic shots (more than a week old) and though we don’t usually post older images, as they could mislead travelers as to what’s showing, we’ll occasionally mix a few in these postcard selections, such as Nancy Wright’s shot of Sunrise Over Silver Lake (above) shot in early October in Mono County.

Lessons Learned:

Get there at dawn, and
There’s always next year.

Spanish Creek, Plumas County (10/19/15) Mike Nellor

Mike Nellor, a color spotter in the Quincy area, sends us this shot of Spanish Creek as it flows through Oakland Camp, east of Quincy. Plumas County color spotter Karen Moritz reports that Bucks Lake is now at 75% and the area around Quincy is peaking. The Indian Valley, also in Plumas County, is Near Peak.

Lundy Canyon (10/20/15) Josh Wray

Josh Wray sends this peakaboo glimpse of how the color is developing in Lundy Canyon (Mono County). Yes, it’s still Near Peak.

October 20, 2015/by John Poimiroo

High Sierra, Photography

Postcard: Mono County

Silver Lake, June Lake Loop (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

Here’s something new for CaliforniaFallColor.com… a postcard selection of photographs taken on one weekend.

Alena Nicholas sent these sunrise and sunset images of Lundy Canyon, the June Lake Loop and Convict Lake in Mono County. Though it is Near Peak, much of the June Lake Loop has yet to turn. That indicates June Lake will continue to peak for a week to two more weeks. So, GO NOW!

June Lake Loop (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

Mono Lake (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

Convict Lake (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

June Lake Loop (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

Sunrise, Gull Lake (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

June Lake Loop (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

Beaver Pond, Lundy Canyon (10/18/15) Alena Nicholas

Lundy Canyon (10/18/15) Alena Nicholas

June Lake Loop (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

June Lake Loop (10/18/15) Alena Nicholas

Lundy Canyon (10/18/15) Alena Nicholas

October 19, 2015/6 Comments/by John Poimiroo

High Sierra, Photography

Mono County – Wow!

Double waterfall, Lundy Canyon (10/17/15) Alena Nicholas

Ansel Adams Wilderness (10/18/15) Alena Nicholas

Color spotter Alena Nicholas sent urgent text messages this past weekend, exclaiming about the incredible color to be seen in Mono County.

Alena knows the Eastern Sierra well, having photographed it many times in the past, though wrote “The Sierra are GLORIOUS!!! Never seen June Lake and area finer…”

Color spotter Patricia Costa followed our advice and headed to the east side to send us photos of the same storm swirling and dropping snow amidst the color while visiting Mammoth Lakes, Devil’s Postpile National Monument, June Lake and points along US 395.