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Darkness enveloped the broad valley of South Park as I crossed it and when I got near the far side, I came to the village of Hartsel. I had to imagine that the kids from the TV program lived in this town. This was the jail there. it was dark when I made this photo and I had to hold the camera against the frame of the van window to hold it steady for the 4 second exposure at ASA 400 and then pump it up with levels and saturation adjustment layers to get the photo to look like it did then... (but a bit lighter than the darkness that existed... brrrr it was cold!) I drove on from there to cross another 9500ft pass and then a 10,500ft pass with snow in the air... I stopped a little while at 10,000ft Leadville to make some phone calls (yippie, cell phone signal) and then drove on to I-70 in dark snowy weather till Fruita where I crawled into my bed in the back of the van for a few zzzz. along the way near Leadville, I kept seeing signs pointing out the 14ers (14,000ft+ peaks) of the Collegiate Range (named after mostly Ivy League schools) but couldn't see anything in the snowy dark skies... I want to return to spend a lot more time in that area. tidbit: did you know that Colorado has 52 peaks over 14,000 ft? We have one here in WA (but that one has the most mass of all individual mountains in the lower 48).Peace Tags: architecture, colorado, mountains, phot expd, signs, snow
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Two years ago, we went to Colorado for autumn photography and one morning when we woke in our van on Grand Mesa, we were greeted by snow and bugling elk. I made photographs throughout the morning along the Curicanti Canyon as the snow melted and then we found the elk that were serenading us. They were across the valley and too far to photograph but we watched a while through binoculars. One particularly large bull was making most of noise and was expending a lot of energy keeping his harem in line. Other lesser bulls along the fringes of the meadow kept his attention and he kept charging them to find when he returned to his harem some had wandered off. He rounded them up and others would stray. All the time, he would keep up his bellowing and charging the other males. The canyon between us and them was steep-sided so we couldn't approach them to get into my 400mm lens range. Adding a teleconverter gave better magnifiction but cut the light level too much for decent shutter speeds. I would have loved to have had a fast 800mm lens right about then. I had to settle with images of aspen. This is one I made with the Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera that I just found while looking for another image on a backup CD. I haven't scanned many of the film images because I am way behind in my editing and scanning... I need a staff... I need to make enough $$ to hire a staff... I need a generous patron... The image was marginal in it's original form so I did some levels adjustments, simplifying, finding edges, painting, and layers blending, and cloning out distractions (the road on the hillside across the valley) to get this result.  Peace Tags: -print available-, autumn, colorado, digital painting, forest, phot expd, trees
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 In recent years, there have been wildfires that have burned large areas of Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado. They were oak and pinion pine forests and what remained after the fires were blackened twisted oak tree trunks... In the next few years the oaks returned and when I visited, they were blanketing the hillsides as brush with the still black predecesors reaching up through the foliage. In the autumn, the oak leaves turn many shades of red, orange, yellow, and brown. I made a series of images showing the plants afire with their own coloring then experimented with this image to further surrealize the effect... Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: Nikkor 75-300mm, Polarizer, Film: Ektachrome E100SW Tags: abstract, autumn, colorado, digital painting, forest, intimate landscape, trees
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 This is a series of painterly images that I made from photographs made in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado in 2000. This view is of the Sneffels Range from Last Dollar Road north of Telluride. Ilene and I spent about three weeks in this area photographing the aspen changing. Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: Nikkor 70-300mm, Polarizer, Film: Ektachrome E100SW Tags: autumn, colorado, digital painting, forest, landscape, mountains, phot expd, trees
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