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jw001 · **Fall Colors -** 10-26-2005, 07:01 PM

Who knows where the best places in the Dallas area are for a good fall color photo?
Maybe within 100 miles?
Share your "secret" spots.
thanks
Jeff

Hogleg 44 · 10-26-2005, 08:11 PM

You might need to add a hundred or two to that radius and head up toward the Talimena Parkway in eastern Oklahoma to Arkansas. Then Maybe there might be some fall colors.

http://www.arkansas.com/calendar/fall_foliage_pg1.asp

Kevin C. Haggard · 10-26-2005, 09:01 PM

Fall Colors in Texas? LOL Seriously, I think Hogleg may have the right idea.

MingsPhoto · 10-26-2005, 10:19 PM

Yeah, I want to see some fall color too. I am heading to Kansas the first Nov weekend.

-Ming

photosbymorgan2 · 10-26-2005, 10:34 PM

If you get to the Japanese Gardens in Fort Worth at the right time then you will see fall colors.

Kevin C. Haggard · 10-26-2005, 11:41 PM

Where exactly in Ft. Worth is are the Gardens?

zeroendless · 11:56 PM

Anything is possible with PS...

White Rock lake, just shoot this couple weeks ago.

[Edit, all images are real ....the fog, heron, wood,reflection, i just 'click' on 'Fall color' mode to bring out the color

]

markperez · 10-26-2005, 11:58 PM

Arbor hills in plano (parker 1.5 miles west of tollway) is changing.

gpbusa316 · 10-27-2005, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin C. Haggard

Where exactly in Ft. Worth is are the Gardens?

Here's their website... http://www.fwbg.org/maps.htm

RandySmith · **Fall colors -** 10-27-2005, 10:05 AM

I've been looking around for a natural background setting for some upcoming family portraits for some friends. Here's a couple of farmer fields close to McKinney, I took last evening. It's not Vermont, but I think it will work for what I have in mind. I see fall colors all over Plano, Allen,McKinney ...

Randy

xseption · **Arbor Hills Nature Preserve -** 10-27-2005, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markperez

Arbor hills in plano (parker 1.5 miles west of tollway) is changing.

Nice park with an active wildflower area in the Spring

:)

jw001 · 08:16 PM

These were taken in Garland. Just off I30 and Broadway.

MingsPhoto · 10-30-2005, 01:46 AM

I took Mark's advice, and went to Arbor hills. The color sure is changing!

-Ming

CKing · 11-02-2005, 11:45 AM

I love that tight shot!

DEMDeepEllumMusic · 11-02-2005, 04:16 PM

Lost Maples state park west of Austin is probably one of the best places in Texas and with the cold snaps that have hit Austin, some days Austin has been colder than here recently, the colors may just now be changing.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/f.../foliage.phtml
Last week they noted color was just changing so we are right at the time of the changes.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/f...s/lost_maples/

To get rich colors you need hardwood trees with a lot of sugar in their sap-ie maple trees, most native trees around here do not have that and hence we get a lot of yellows instead of reds in our trees. Now I guess that may be the reason that Red Oaks due turn redish in color vs the normal post and pin oaks in the area but I have noticed that Red Oaks usually get the vivid colors in older trees.

So you can head south about 230 miles to Lost Maples or go North and East and end up in Arkansas and see color changes there. I believe there are some non-pine forests above Texarkana sine Pines do not really do any color changes.

Now what is really cool is going up into the rockies and seeing Aspen groves go brilliantly gold across the mountain in patches surounded by the everpresent green pines. You can catch these from Sante Fe north and I would guess that they have already peaked but even bare Aspen trees are a challenge to photograph. I've tried to shoot Aspen groves multiple times and have not had much luck in getting the results that I really want. There is something about their starkness and bark patterns that is so hard to capture. I feal lucky to have seen what others have done.