Aspen Fall Colors, Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona
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The North Rim section of Grand Canyon National Park is the highest area of the park, on average 1,000 feet higher in elevation than the much more heavily visited South Rim. Being that much higher in elevation means it also gets a lot more annual precipitation, and so it is much more heavily forested, with spruce, fir, and aspen not found on the other rim.
In this photo, I was attracted by the bright yellow aspen leaves at their peak fall foliage colors, set off by a background of deep shadow. With the sunlight almost directly behind the leaves, they are lit up intensely. Showing off.
Not to be totally outdone, other leaves out of the picture cast their shadows onto their neighbors' glowing canvases from above. Also we can notice some small brown splotches on the leaves here and there, battle scars of the long growing season probably caused by insect feeding. The natural order of things. The leaves made it through another season, and are going out with glory. All is well, it seems.
Photo location: North Rim area of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
