Autumn Cotton

Dropping lower allowed me to focus your attention on this one particular street with its plethora of color. I really wanted to focus on this street and I love how you see this parallel lines of different color. It's like these trees were purposefully planted this way, such that the towering Redwoods would give off a bit of green to contrast the yellow and red of the maples. This is one of the first photographs I took on the first night, and as you've seen, I kept coming back to this. It was difficult to photograph because a number of buildings just outside the edge of this distracted from the photo -- particularly a giant school with its sports fields that broke up the beautiful color of the neighborhood. DJI Mavic 2 Pro: 10.26mm, f/2.8, 1/40 sec, ISO 100

Mansion Land

I nearly didn't include this photograph in the collection because there was far more color in other parts of the neighborhood, but what ultimately drew me to come back to this were the HOUSES. Should I say *mansions*? Can you imagine living in one of the homes? They're absolutely huge. It also only seems fitting that these huge houses are also shielded by the largest tree in the world -- Redwoods dot the huge mansions. DJI Mavic 2 Pro: 10.26mm, f/2.8, 1/40 sec, ISO 100

Tie Die Cotton Balls

The forecast for my first night was predicting a colorful sunset, which is why I started to prepare to take the drone out for a spot about 15 minutes away. At the last minute I decided that a nice sunset with red and yellow trees would also go well and made the decision to photograph the fall colors instead. I kept flying over this particular row of trees. One after another they lined up with color. I had hoped to photograph them more perpendicular, so you could see more of their color, but I couldn't control where the sky was lighting up with color. I thought the trees looked a little like cotton balls. DJI Mavic 2 Pro: 10.26mm, f/2.8, 1/240 sec, ISO 100