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Bjørn Rørslett

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2015, 00:21:11 »
Nowhere in Norway can the mountain autumn colours be more intense than in the inland valley Dørålen. Often the first snow further adds contrast and impact to the landscape.

Yellows and oranges are  mainly Mountain Birch and its hybrids, while the intense red is chiefly Mountain Bearberry Arctostaphylos alpinus.

Use a long lens and early grazing morning light and the success is secured.

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2015, 02:53:53 »
Bjørn, this is a most spectacular combination of colour patches and tones.  I love the blues, and the bright red patch of the bearberry somehow serves to highlight all of the colour patches.  Great stuff.

Nowhere in Norway can the mountain autumn colours be more intense than in the inland valley Dørålen. Often the first snow further adds contrast and impact to the landscape.

Yellows and oranges are  mainly Mountain Birch and its hybrids, while the intense red is chiefly Mountain Bearberry Arctostaphylos alpinus.

Use a long lens and early grazing morning light and the success is secured.
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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2015, 05:51:44 »
An autumn leaf fallen upon a cabbage.

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2015, 12:50:50 »
Nowhere in Norway can the mountain autumn colours be more intense than in the inland valley Dørålen. Often the first snow further adds contrast and impact to the landscape.

Yellows and oranges are  mainly Mountain Birch and its hybrids, while the intense red is chiefly Mountain Bearberry Arctostaphylos alpinus.

Use a long lens and early grazing morning light and the success is secured.

  What a sight!

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2015, 13:37:10 »
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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2015, 15:01:41 »
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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2015, 16:07:09 »
This is from Dovre, another range in the Norwegian Central Mountains that is less dry than Dørålen (shown in an earlier post). Thus the alpine zone has richer and more luxuriant vegetation, here dominated by Dwarf Birch,  Mountain Birch,  Juniper, Common and Bog Bilberry, Willows, Trailing Azalea, and Bearberry. For a short time in autumn, usually peaking in the third week of September, they together form a variegated mosaic of autumn colours. A dusting of snow at higher altitudes adds to the firework display.

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2015, 16:15:00 »
The Mountain Bearberry Actostaphylos alpinus turns red in autumn. Very very red. In fact so intense red that neither film nor digital photography can fully do its amazing foliage justice. The colour simply blows away any colour space gamut you attempt to use. This leads in turn to all details of the leaves being blocked and lost in the intense colour.

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« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2015, 16:24:41 »
Wonderful responses. Love them. Keep them coming.
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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2015, 17:53:13 »
Nowhere in Norway can the mountain autumn colours be more intense than in the inland valley Dørålen. Often the first snow further adds contrast and impact to the landscape.

Yellows and oranges are  mainly Mountain Birch and its hybrids, while the intense red is chiefly Mountain Bearberry Arctostaphylos alpinus.

Use a long lens and early grazing morning light and the success is secured.
Spectacular view and even more beautiful photograph of it.

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2015, 17:58:18 »
Minneapolis, USA. 2009 fall/autumn. D200 + 200mm f/4 AF Micro Nikkor. At f/11 this was a super cool lens for general landscape.

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2015, 18:15:15 »
Lutsen Mountain, Minnesota, USA. 2008 Fall. Canon Powershot S80, often failed to capture true colors of foliage.





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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2015, 18:28:28 »
A lot can be told about events of the autumn without presenting details at all. For example, alder (Alnus spp.) don't change their foliage colours until the leaves dry up and fall off. As they have a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixating bacteria via root nodules, they don't need to transfer valuable chlorophyll substances into the roots for  winter storage.

Here I exemplify the difference by showing Alnus incana foliage against a Silver Birch in the background. By using a long lens (800mm) set off focus, everything is thrown wildly out of the sharpness plane, so just the colour patches and pattern persist.

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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2015, 18:37:52 »


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Re: The Autumn Color thread
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2015, 18:51:52 »
Fons. The orange berries shine on my phone. The pink berries are blown.
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