October Image Contest - Intimate Landscapes

When the skies are featureless and hazy it seem to make a great time to concentrate on intimate landscapes, so bring me a shrubbery!

"One that looks nice, and not too expensive." Ni!"

Here's my favorite image from fall 2010.

After catching a colorful sunrise at Lake Marie, we made a stop at Hanging Lake on the way out of the Snowy Mountains, WY. A great place to eat breakfast!

It was indeed one of those rainy overcast days up on Mt. Evans last summer, and decided to scout the bristlecone pines for something.

Roger, that bristlecone photo is outstanding. The colors, patterns and textures are amazing. Love it!

This field was difficult to shoot at sunset if you were looking for the grand landscape. I much preferred this view.

I was shooting a cabin along East Fork of Brush Creek in late September when I spotted some nicely backlit scrub oak. The buckeyes were nice and the background worked well.

Roger, that's a great shot of the bristlecone pine. And I love the sunflowers Bill.

Here's an ant!

I don't think I've posted this shot on RMNP before...

This is really "intimate" according to Todd..

Bret, excellent color and comp.
Bill, absolutely striking.
Roger, gorgeous abstract.
Bill, great light and comp. Love the pano.
Rod, wonderful color and the dof is perfect. Love the light, too.
Jack. something completely different and unique, and crazy good. Love the light through the sap, and that you included the ant's shadow.
Grant, that is just brilliant. The focus on the trees in the reflection is such a great contrast to the whirlpool of leaves.
Tien, I'm blushing Incredible abstract. Great eye to see and capture this.

Some beautiful stuff here guys. Jack, what are the odds of catching an ant shadow?
I'm not sure if this qualifies as an intimate landscape, but maybe it does to the spider.

Outstanding shots everyone! Hard to pick a favorite, but being a Kansas girl until I moved here just recently, I'm leaning toward Bill's sunflower image. Beautiful! Here's an intimate little scene I captured on the floor of an aspen grove near Telluride.

Beautiful shots so far ... really tough to pick - they are all my favourites

Wonderful stuff everyone! Tien, wow!

I'll play too! Here's one of my many Dream Lake ice images, this one being one of my favorites: Ice Universe

Brent, you beat me to the punch with a killer ice image Can't really top that so I'll post something from my recent trip.

Lots of incredible images. Here's one peering deep into Mistaya Canyon in Banff National Park.

Here is some local Autumn Shrubbery!

Nice shots everyone! Heres my favorite "intimate" shot from this Autumn thus far.....

Golden Gate

Hard times for this shrubbery. Noo!

I need to make a better scan of this one. Colors are still off, but it's a work in process.

Owl Creek Pass, this September

If it's not O.K. to post a 2nd entry, just let me know and I'll take this one down.

Zion last fall

Cottonwood leaf from this fall.

Great stuff, everyone!

This is from Geneva Creek, on the south side of Guanella Pass.

Really terrific stuff from everyone, just like every month! Here's an entry from southern New Mexico, Hillsboro Lake in the Black Range.

Looks good everyone.
Aspen cluster, reworked from previous post.

Fall leaves taken in my backyard.

Awesome stuff everyone. Here is one from last fall from a small creek in Mt.lemmon,Tucson.

Wow...there are some amazing images in this group! I really love Sarah's leaves, Stephen's oaks and Jackson's aspens. Lots of inspiration, folks!

Here's another of mine, from a recent outing.