Color at Home
I've lived in Menlo Park for over a decade and every November I've always noticed the trees turn red, orange and yellow. I've never particularly paid close attention to how much color there is other than to note: "Hey, fall color in the Bay Area *does* actually happen!" I also never thought to try to take photos of them because the neighborhoods don't typically seem like your normal landscape photography scene.
Despite living here a decade, I never really explored my neighborhood. We have beautiful redwood hikes within 15 minutes and we'd always adventure to a "real" hike. However, COVID changed all of that: the parks were initially closed and we needed to do *something* for our weekend walks. It turns out I have an absolutely BEAUTIFUL neighborhood. And guess what -- there's Redwoods ALL OVER.
Jeff started to challenge those of us in his Escaype photography group to look at scenes in a new light. He would institute weekly challenges or explore us to photograph as close to home as possible. He gave me a location about 10 minutes away with a challenge to photograph it. And I was heading out to capture a nice sunset from there when I realized: "maybe I should stay here and try to capture the fall colors from the drone."
So I did exactly that. This series is a set of photographs taken from above, using a drone, over the course of 2 sunsets in Menlo Park. The fall colors were peaking and I wanted to look at them from a new light -- in a way that might combine the beauty of the trees with the man-made structures next to them. I did my best to protect my neighbors privacy and used angles that did not peer into their homes. I hope you enjoy.
DJI Mavic 2 Pro:
10.26mm, f/2.8, 1/500 sec, ISO 100