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Mountain Maple Colors

A beautiful Mountain Maple tree in its full autumn glory at Grand Portage State Park, Minnesota.

Fall is (finally) here!

After what seems like quite a delay, the fall colors have finally arrived!  The color seems to be at least a few days behind this year, probably more likely a week or more.  This picture was made along the High Falls Trail at Grand Portage State Park in the very northeast tip of Minnesota.  This is very nice trail that is also handicap accessible.  People of just about any ability are able to explore the beauty along this trail to Minnesota's tallest waterfall.  And right now, the trail is filled with color!

Canyon Flow

I love this section of the Kadunce River.  The way the water flows over the rock is simply beautiful.  The tilting LCD screen of my Nikon D750 came in really handy for this photograph.  I had my tripod set up in the water about as low as I could get it without getting the camera wet.  All I had to do was flip the screen up to see what the camera was seeing and easily compose this shot :-)

A burst of fall color

Fall colors have arrived!  Get out and enjoy them while they last :-)

The first to change

While out looking for fall colors the other day I came across this pair of maple leaves that had changed color before all the other leaves on the tree were even thinking about changing.  I thought it made for an interesting photo to have the little bit of autumn color surrounded by so much green.  It was a rainy afternoon as well which gave some added texture to the leaves.  

Early Autumn over Trout and Swamp Lakes

I made this photograph just before sunset on September 22, 2015.  As you can see, the trees still looked pretty green.  A lot has changed since then, however.  We've had colder weather and some rain which seems to have accelerated the color change.  The colors are still not yet at peak, but they are much closer now than they were two days ago.