Tahoe in October 2013

Well this is our third month in a row in Tahoe.  The smoke has finally cleared and yes the Tahoe and Reno areas where hit hard with the smoke from the Rim fire, aka Yosemite areas.

The seasons where definitely changing and there were a lot less people about.  The summer ones have left and the snow had not arrived.  Thus it was a nice time although a little cold.

Here are a few pictures from this outing.  It was again fun watching the salmon run and this year a bear cub decided to make a showing even though the government was shut down.  (The Taylor visitor center was closed thus I think there where less people on the path thus they did not scare the bear away.  Anyway, the bear walked within feet or my wife and daughter and did not really care that there where people around.  He was more interested in the salmon.  They where on the raised path and the bear was in the creek, thus there was a railing separating them.)


Here are a few pictures of the energies of beavers.  And yes, beavers I guess love steps too.


Some of the landscape of the area.


Lastly, this was shot from the balcony of the place we where staying.  All I can say is that I am lazy.  The tree is actually illuminated by the glow from the downstairs fireplace and the clouds where lit by the 3/4 moon that was high to the right behind a group of trees as the camera sat.  The exposure itself was 30s, f13, 28mm at 1600 ISO.  A little noise reduction with Nik.