It’s 2015 now?! What the hell happened to 2014?! Lots of changes happened for me through out the last 355 days since my last posting. Unfortunately, very few of them involved either the outdoors or photography. Much of the photography that did occur was incidental, and fairly random, which is how I keep some creative fire burning. It’s hard to summarize what passed in a blur, but I will try with a few photos, and fewer words. Here’s how I remember it:
Some showshoeing in February and March:
Indian Peaks Wilderness
Finally found an administrative area I like.
Aspens
James Peak from Moffatt Tunnel
Spruce Rosette
A blood moon in April:
The Blood Moon, also known as a lunar eclipse. I pieced together my images of the moon from full to full eclipse.
Great blue Herons also in April:
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Spring in Rocky Mountain National Park, June:
Bull Elk in spring velvet.
Grazing bull Elk
Alberta Creek
Alberta Falls
Hiked some Fourteeners, Mounts Harvard, Cameron, Lincoln and Bross in July and August:
Light on the ridge between Mount Democrat and Mount Traver, on the numerous Thirteener peaks.
Mount Cameron summit from Mount Lincoln.
Mount Lincoln summit from the short saddle to Mount Cameron
Mount Democrat with Kite Lake below. Kite Lake is one trailhead for the Democrat, Cameron, Lincoln, Bross chain.
Horn Fork Basin below Mount Harvard and Mount Columbia
Descent from Mount Harvard.
Collegiate Peaks Wilderness boundry sign.
Went hunting for deer in September:
Sunrise over Bald Mountain, Hoosier Ridge
Sunset and rain shower on South Park from Red Mountain
Pika watching the sun set
Night sky at 10, 800'
Night sky at 10, 800'
Mountain Chickadee
Boreas Pass road in September.
Hunted some trains in December:
Norfolk Southern 7630 lead a southbound Laurel to Denver on the BNSF Front Range subdivision
Norfolk Southern heritage unit 8099 painted in Southern RR livery.
Northbound coal empty headed for the Powder River basin, Wyoming.
BNSF passes Burns Junmction in Broomfield, Mount Meeker in the background.
BNSF 1680
Fading nose of BNSF 695, still painted in Santa Fe warbonnet colors.
Nose of Canadian National 2436, a long distance visitor to the BNSF Front Range sub.
Photographed the local wildlife in November and December:
Pair of Ravens, near Louisville.
Northern Shoveler on Tom Frost reservior, Broomfield.
Black tailed prairie dog, Broomfield Commons open space.
Peregrine Falcon feeding on one of the many rabbits in the park behind my house in Broomfield.
One of my backyard rabbits.
And here are some of the random shots I was able to take in October and November:
