Color

Mesas stacked into blue haze and brush lit amber in the last minutes of the day. The Southwest, photographed slowly.

Autumn forest of orange and gold trees emerging from lifting fog

Autumn in the fog

Fog lifts off the slope and every aspen answers in orange and gold, the dark firs holding the line between.

Desert brush lit amber beneath a burning sunset sky

Desert dusk

The last light burns along the horizon and the desert brush catches fire for a minute before the dark.

Backlit Japanese maple leaves glowing coral pink against a soft bright sky

Maple lanterns

A Japanese maple with the sun behind it — every leaf a small lantern, coral where you expected red.

Two pink tulips fully open against a dark background, petals curling outward

Tulips, wide open

Two tulips at the end of their bloom, holding nothing back — the last thing a flower does is show you everything.

Sun setting in the gap between two silhouetted sea stacks, golden sky and amber surf below, a lone bird flying overhead

Sun in the saddle

The sun finds the one notch between the sea stacks and pours through it — sky, surf, and wet rock all struck the same amber, a single gull crossing above to see it done.

Autumn mountainsides covered in red and orange brush, ridges receding into the distance, dark evergreens on a rocky canyon slope in the foreground

Wasatch mountains

October runs through the canyons like spilled paint — ridge after ridge of maple red and amber, while the pines stand in the creases and refuse the season.

Bright red Japanese maple leaves on slender dark branches against a pale silvery blurred background

Scarlet stars

A Japanese maple holds its reddest hour against a silver sky — every leaf a five-pointed star, the whole branch a constellation refusing to fade.

Golden aspens glowing through drifting fog on a steep mountainside, evergreens dusted with fresh snow around them

First snow, last gold

Autumn and winter meet on one slope — aspens holding their gold under the first dusting of snow, and the clouds drifting through to keep the peace.

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