BLOG
-
Stanley Mountain
Cloudless skies and quickly melting snow on the peaks made for a bland sunrise and landscape photos in general.Surprisingly, it turned into a wildlife day on the tundra.
Once I slogged up the switchback I was rewarded with two ptarmigan that were molting. They were beautiful with their summer…
-
Colorado Mines Pk & Mt. Flora
I hit the trail around 5:30ish, maybe earlier. Bummed, I was hoping for an earlier start to be above treeline for sunrise. I did catch some alpine glow on the nearby peaks through the trees. The clouds were sparse, so not a big deal that I got a later start… -
Eldorado Canyon State Park - Morning Light
I was parked in the lower lot by 5:20 am. I took my last drink of coffee and started hiking up the road to a spot I reconned last weekend, just below the start of the Fowler Trail. This is the first time I have been the first in the… -
Behind the Photo - Intensity
I was cozy in my sleeping bag listening to the rain hitting my tent. It’s one of my favorite things. Two more of my favorite things are fall and the elk rut, which it just happened to be both. It was starting off as a good trip. I was woken…
-
Finally Winter
Zero degrees. That was the temperature when I got to the parking lot at Chautauqua at 8:20. Even though at the last minute I decided to throw chili goodness in the crockpot before I left, I was still one of only a handful of cars in a lot that is…