From the Sept 22 Webinar, Photographing Fall Colors, here are my assignment results. I took these on the morning of the webinar! We did a roughly 5.5 mile hike at Catamount, near Woodland Park. The elevation is around 9000+ ft. The theme is “Looking Down”. All are taken with a Fuji X-PRO2, 23mm f/2 lens, hand held.
Nice collection Jim, thank you for sharing! You did a good job of finding interesting subjects in what may seem mundane to others.
Thanks! I’m almost always looking for little scenes.
I hope I am doing this correctly. I spent a days camped out at Lockett Meadow which is in the San Francisco Peaks area outside Flagstaff, AZ. There is a main trail leading south into the Inner Basin. I shot these photos with a Nikon D7500 and a Sigma 70-300mm lens. These shots were either handheld or on a tripod.
I guess my topic would be raindrops.
Nicely done! Great color contrast.
That is lovely Lore! I love the choice of the very dark background to make the leaves and droplets the subject.
Thanks Jim & David. My trip over the weekend was really fruitful. Listening to you and Jennifer talk about important tips for having a successful outing. The most important message (to me anyway) is that I just need to get out and shoot. Which most importantly means I need to always carry my camera with me.
Here is another photo. This was the first time that I have seriously tried to get night shots.
Nice images Jim! I loved David’s recommendation to not forget to look down.
On image #1 - did you intend for it to be monochrome when you shot the image? I am a huge fan of black & white. To me, there are times when a color shot of the same image is too busy and a mostly monochrome shot like this removes that extra “noise.”
Autumn Abstracts
I’m just now getting around to processing a few of the photos I took three weeks ago in Crested Butte, CO. I’ll admit I hadn’t really intended to do an ICM series, but once I started processing them it just seemed to work. Once thing I learned about myself on the trip is that when I feel overwhelmed by photographic opportunities, I turn to intentional camera movement (ICM) techniques to take off the pressure of trying to capture a perfect photo. Since ICM is almost never predictable, so it removes the burden of expectations and allows me to simply play with creative possibilities. Thanks for the inspiration David & Jennifer! 
Very nice. I’ve done this a few times with mixed results. These I like.
Thanks JimVH! These were only 6 out of a couple hundred ICM attempts that I liked. It is always a mixed bag which I find relieves the pressure I can put on myself to produce a perfect photo. Since I assume most of the ICM images I make will be crap, I’m always pleasantly surprised when one works out. Kind of backward thinking, but it works for me. 
My Fall Colors Project was Waterfalls and Cascades of the New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia. During the course of three days I found a wonderful collection of creek scenes to photograph, and the weather was ideal (wet, overcast, and rainy). Fortunately, I didn’t kill or injure myself getting down to some of the locations. I tried posting seven images, but evidently new users are restricted to only one image.
