ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, THE WORK OF PEPPER K. ETTERS

Landscape and Nature: Trees

Whether lone sentinals over a vast open space, or a tightly clustered grouping of competing organisms, trees are one of the most important aspects of the earth we inhabit.
An intimate view of the subtle colors of the changing aspens.
   
A lone mangrove tree stands silhouetted against the late afternoon sun.
   
A freshly covered group of evergreens awake to the morning sun high on Vail Mountain.
     
  
A stand of redwoods emerge from the early morning mists of northern California's coastal forest.
  
The sun shines through a glade of changing aspens near Tennessee Pass, Colorado.
   
A solitary tree stands in silhouette on a ridge of Vail Mountain, Colorado.
     
  
A short lived snowstorm frosted these pine trees high on the slopes of Vail Mountain in Colorado.
   
Standing several hundred feet tall, the giant redwoods are one of earth's most impressive species of trees.
  
A rainbow appears above a patch of changing aspens in Colorado.