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Colorado photographer and former Montana resident REBECCA STUMPF was hiking in the Bitterroot Mountains during a drizzly, overcast day in October when a flash of color caught her eye. “Almost all the leaves were down at that point, but there was a small bunch of leaves still in fall colors and even containing some green,” she says. “It was one of those days with flat, gray light, and so the colors really popped from a distance.” Stumpf says she used a narrow depth of field to keep the center leaves in focus while blurring those in the back and front to highlight their bright colors. “I didn’t want to draw attention to any one leaf but instead tried to show the grouping as I’d seen it while walking past on the trail,” she says. ■
6 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2013 FWP.MT.GOV/MTOUTDOORS
