Otoño

Okay, here we are again!

Today I have the last pictures from before my trip to Buenos Aires. At that time, the mountains were covered in orange, red, yellow and gold from the trees. The weather was not too good, but once in a while the sun could be seen behind the clouds.

I went camping the day I took this pictures, hoping to photograph a place I had found a few days earlier, but the sunrise proved a bit of a disappointment. However, the day before and during the night I was able to do a few good images, and here they are.

Otoño

El Chalten, Patagonia Argentina

The idea was to keep things small and simple. The first picture shows the side of a mountain, right to the left of the trail that goes up to Laguna de los Tres. I decided to play with the shadows made by the sun, and used a big rock to break the trees. To give you and idea of size, what you see of the rock must be around 8 meters tall.

Manchado

El Chalten, Patagonia Argentina

The next one was taken from inside the forest, a few hundred meter from the camp. The sun was shining trough the trees illuminating some yellow leaves, and creating a nice contrast.

Silueta

El Chalten, Patagonia Argentina

And finally, this one is more a of a test to blend two different exposures during the night. Having no moon, you couldn't really see anything, much less details in the mountains, but with such a long exposure for the stars, I had to blend a second exposure for the foreground. If everything is right, you should see them almost black, but with a few dark gray patches here and there (snow from a recent storm).

Hope you like them.

See you around!
Santiago