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After our trip to the Eastern Sierras myself and 2 friends were following the reports of the Fall Color level in Hope Valley, California. We read it was peaking on Friday so we decided to make a road trip on the following day. We left at 6:30AM for the normally 4 hour drive to Hope Valley.
On the way to Sorensen’s Resort in Hope Valley to find a trail to hike out to see more Fall Color we saw this little cabin, and behind me a little meadow ,and red barn that looked picturesque and interesting so we pulled over to the side of the road to photograph them.
We saw so many beautiful Aspens along Highways 88 and 89, and at Sorensen’s we ran into a Meet-Up friend, and spent so much time shooting the cute resort cabins that we ran out of time and never did find the trail to an overlook of the valley.
From Sorensen’s we decided to head further north to Lake Tahoe to shoot the sunset. We stopped for a much need caffeine break at a famous coffee shop in Tahoe and there we ran into 2 more friends from another Meet- Up group! After sunset we stopped in Truckee to have dinner which I didn’t photograph then we headed home. I got home at 11:35PM.
We had a wonderful day, and perhaps next year I’ll find that trail.

Exposure and PP- I decided to try my ND filter and Warming filter today when the sun came out. I hoped the warming filter would bring out the oranges and golds in the trees and bushes. It did!
PP-Vibrance, clarity, levels, WB adjustment to bring out more of the color that was in the clouds, cropped of some of the bottom, and resized.

Nikon D300s, Nikkor 17-35mm @17mm, f9, 1/30s, ISO 200, Manual Mode, Hoya 0.9 Neutral Density Filter, B+W Warming 81A filter, Sandisk Ultra II Digital Film