I love driving along country roads any time of the year but especially in the fall. Judging from all the tourists, other photographers and people telling me so, I’m guessing you do too! Autumn road images have been among my favorites in the past so I made it a goal to add to my collection this year. This is my fourth fall living here, in the beautiful San Juan Mountains. Searching for fresh compositions, I was happy to discover a few new roads and vantage points I want to show you. So come on … let’s go for a ride!
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Thanks for coming along! If you want to keep riding … here’s a link to some autumn roads shot last year.
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Lovely images and colours, what a great location.
Thank you! Everyone seems to agree that this is a beautiful place. Even locals don’t tire of the scenery.
Amazing colours.
Thanks for visiting. The back-lighting on the aspen trees can be almost blinding at times … very brilliant.
Wow, gorgeous! ‘Rainy Day Drive’ beckons me… makes me want to hit the road. 😉
Thanks Eliza. That was a special rainy day … it felt like fall Back East!
Beautiful work, Denise.
Hi Ray … looks like you are having a great fall too! Thanks for your visit and comment!
Four years. Wow time flies. Your images here are so pretty. Thank goodness you managed to find the roads less traveled.
Well it’s 3 years 3 months but our 4th fall since we moved in July. I’m glad you like the images and appreciate the visit and comment! 🙂
Love these… and big thanks for your comment on my blog… really like Ouray and the drive to Silverton when I was out there 6yrs ago!
Thank you Mike. Hope you are feeling back to your old self and having a great fall!
Almost…. still a lil weak.. but have been back to work for 2 weeks and just started shooting again…. thanks for asking.
Golden beauty.
There’s more than one kind of gold in these mountains! It would be great to find a nugget of the other kind! Thanks for visiting!!!
Just. Beautiful.
Thank you Carlos … 🙂
Beautiful images and you incorporated the roads into the compositions perfectly.
Thanks Ken … this might be my favorite set from this year! 🙂
I’ll go for drive with you any time!
Lots of oohhh’s and aahhh’s from me!
Thanks Deb! There were lots of oohhhs and aahhhs coming out of me this fall too!
You found some gorgeous views on those new to you roads. The fall colors are beautiful.
Thanks very much Deborah … these are some of my favorites so I appreciate the nice comment!
Those roads lead to some beautiful shots.
Thanks very much Dave! A lot of these roads won’t be accessible in the winter so I’m glad I got out on them as much as I have.
Beautiful captures! They draw you in and make me want to travel along! Thanks for the ride!
Thanks for coming along Angie … put lots of miles on the Subaru this Fall!
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My kind of landscape love it
Thank you … I had a lot of fun finding these and then putting them together in this post. 🙂
Thanks for taking us with you!
Sure … anytime! Thanks for coming along and commenting!
Such spectacular scenery! I’m drawn to #6, I think because I have a thing for those brown hills juxtaposed with the autumnal trees, and #1 and #3. I love road pictures. 🙂 Thanks for the ride.
That is dry tundra vegetation you see at the top of ‘Winding Through’. Thanks for your note and preferences. Other’s comments help me to see from a new viewpoint.
These are gorgeous!
Thank you!!! This could be my favorite set from autumn (so far anyway)!
Thank you for the ride on the roads of colors, Denise, it was spectacular! I love the leading of a road or trail of any type in a photo, yours here are amazing!
One of my favorite thing is to drive these roads so I’m very glad you like them Donna! (My favorite set so far.)
Thanks for the ride, it’s beautiful!
Thanks for coming along! I appreciate it!
Seems that you do what I do. Taking back country roads looking for whatever will interest me with the camera. Done this many times. Here in PA, the color has reached its peak at most places. However, there is still some left depending on where you go. I’m following. Cheers!
There’s no shortage of photographers and cameras … is there? Thankfully there are a lot of back roads for us to explore. I am from South Jersey and am familiar with many areas in PA. I went to college in Philly. Where do you live?
Live up here in Reading, PA. It’s about 60 miles NW of Philly. Philly takes about a hour drive away for me.
Agreed, roads are a great composition element, and these are spectacularly executed. Love the light in Forest Road in Fall!
Thank you. That forest road is a place I return to … the aspens there are so pretty.