Fall Color

[photographmemories]

Post your autumn foliage pics here!

Here's some of mine from the past few years

George Rogers Marine Park, Lake Oswego 2012

Laurelhurst Park, October 2013

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, September 2012

I-205 Overlook at Willamette Falls, OR 2013

Geese at a lake in Milwaukie, OR 2013

Chad

 

[Bill Anderson]

I love that last goose photo.

 

[photographmemories]

Thanks Bill.

I love foliage reflections in the water. Here's a photo of a Hooded Merganser I took the other day.

 

[Bill Anderson]

Is it just my (mis)perception or are we having a very late autumn up here in the upper Puget Sound region? It seems as though very few of the trees in the lowlands have turned color yet. I really noticed it yesterday when I drove to SeaTac to pick up my wife. Hardly any trees on Beacon Hill next to I-5 had turned yellow.

 

[squirl033]

Is it just my (mis)perception or are we having a very late autumn up here in the upper Puget Sound region? It seems as though very few of the trees in the lowlands have turned color yet. I really noticed it yesterday when I drove to SeaTac to pick up my wife. Hardly any trees on Beacon Hill next to I-5 had turned yellow.

i dunno if it's "late", Bill - we often don't see much till late October/early November - but so far definitely not much color here in the lowlands. sadly, it's mostly gone up in the mountains... didn't last long at all up there this year!

 

[Bill Anderson]

I go to the Edmonds marsh nearly every day to photograph birds. The marsh has a special autumn look all its own when the cattails and rushes turn brown and the cattail fuzz is backlit by the low, late afternoon autumn sun.

The tall trees with the poofy tops are on the fish hatchery grounds. The one on the right is the raptor tree where I have photographed eagles, hawks, falcons, and osprey.



I experimented with different white balance settings on the camera and Picasa's auto contrast feature in an attempt to portray what I saw.

 

[photographmemories]

Nice captures Bill! I've been wondering about the Marsh colors up there.

I took this photo at a lake in SE Portland about a month ago...

Fall color is starting to peak here however, sunny weather has disappeared for the time being. A series of powerful storms continue to move through. We'll see if there's anything left of fall color after these events.


Chad

 

[photographmemories]

I took some photos at the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden in SE Portland Sunday afternoon.

Chad

 

[Bill Anderson]

Real, wild wood ducks. Cool!

 

[Bill Anderson]

The autumn colors of the marsh really come out at sunset.






Monday (11/10/14) the first Seattle to Everett Sounder of the day rolled past the marsh into Edmonds at sunset. For the next 3+ months our local commuters will be in the Dark Ages, when they leave for work and return home in the dark.



I barely made it down to the marsh in time for the sunset. It is supposed to be clear and cold again today, so I'll go down to the marsh an hour earlier and set up with a wide angle lens for better shots.