Central California

Nestled Treasure

Soft Light and fall colors in the Sequoia Redwood forest Sequoia National Park, California Despite living in Northern California for over 12 years now, I had never taken the 4 hour drive over to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. When Willie proposed hopping over there to see if we could capture some fall colors, I immediately said "YES!" Our plans changed multiple times as we watched the weather and waited for the trees to turn color. We were a month too early, so we delayed. We were a week too early, so we went to Lassen National Park instead. And then finally it looked like the colors were changing and we skipped work, booked a hotel and drove down on a Thursday. We knew a few particular areas of the park were prone to having fall colors. Particularly the dogwood trees and we drove straight to them. The fall colors were not to be found! We spent the day hunting for signs of color. Just before the evening "golden hour" we pulled over at a pull-out and noticed this area ... to our amusement it was the exact area we had first scouted but the harsh light had now faded and we were coming in from a different angle. We grabbed our cameras and snapped away, before running off to see if we could find more colors elsewhere. I loved the way that a few tones of colors nestled up right against the giant Sequoia trees, and then on the other side the green pine trees framed the scene. Nikon D850 w/Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8: 125mm, f/11, 1.3 sec, ISO 64

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