More Fall Color

Fall Color, Nov. 4, 2005
I found this shot today while walking around a pond in Jefferson National Forest. I got this shot from a small hill on the south side of the pond, while I was looking west-northwest. I used my 200 mm micro lens, not that I needed its "micro" capability. The lens brought me just close enough to isolate the part of the tree that I thought was most interesting. I like the way the red branches offset the green of the pine tree behind them. I used a polarizer to get this shot, and found that the polarizer helped me increase the saturation of red and oranges, while decreasing the blue. I like the way the small yellow tree sits nicely in the bottom corner of the frame.