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Spiraling into Autumn
Autumn comes early to the Yukon. The first tinges of red and yellow appeared in the ground cover around the middle of August and now we are fully into it, with the aspens and willows rapidly transforming from green to gold. This image was shot with the lens pointed straight up at the treetops in an aspen grove. As I pressed the shutter release, I rotated the camera while zooming inward from the Tamron’s 18mm wide angle setting. The blurring softened contrast and created an impression of fog, but it was actually a bright afternoon and a neutral density filter was required to allow a slow enough shutter speed to achieve the effect. A note to users of the Tamron 18-250 zoom: shooting wide-angle with two stacked (low profile) filters is a no-no and severe vignetting required use of Photoshop’s clone tool in two corners to salvage this photo.
Pentax K10D, Tamron AF 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DiII LD IF Macro with ND8 filter + Polarizer, 1/4 s @ f/22
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