Seeking tartan design input for my "Leaf Peeper" Tartan

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And equally, the colors look fairly pale. Now maybe that's an "Ancient" or "Weathered" variant, but it certainly doesn't suggest the vividness that was implied as necessary, or preferable, in some earlier posts. There's a difference between "light" and "bright". That I tend to prefer a gold, like the top left square below, versus the one in the center square, will have it's consequences throughout the tartan, certainly. The same is said for the red, brown, and green in the Leaf Peeper.



Let us look for a moment, at the balance of the colors in the photos below. Can we honestly say that I'm so very far off the mark? These were taken two years ago, at the height of the season (Columbus Day weekend, 2011.) The first from along the Kanc, near the hair-pin, the second along the Swift River, the third, from the base of the Cog at Mt. Washington. (Note the train car is bright yellow... the trees are gold, and there are a fair number of green conifers.)

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At the higher elevations, of course, everything is conifer...

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And a shot of North Conway from Cathedral Ledge (hazy day, so everything is washed out.)

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A shot from somewhere along either Rt 3 or 302

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This is perhaps the "brightest" shot, that was taken from my hotel room. (And note there's still a lot of green in there.)

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