The Forest Remembers October
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
A slow vertical pan through a northern hardwoods stand at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore dissolves individual sugar maples and beeches into ribbons of color — dark trunks anchoring a luminous field of gold, amber, and burnt orange. The intentional camera movement strips away the literal forest and leaves behind the feeling of standing inside peak autumn, surrounded by warmth on all sides. Captured on an October afternoon in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, when the hardwoods were at their most extravagant.