exploring colorado in all seasons
Since I have a nice open space park half a block from my house, the sun was setting, I figured what the hell, lets go take some sunset photos.
Unfortunately, some of the awesome dynamic range is lost in the translation to JPEG (yuck), but it still looks cool.
After the failed backpacking trip, and the lightning strike and everything, we decided to try and do the whole trip in one day rather than three. Was this a good idea? Probably not, considering that the 15 miles from Long Lake trailhead near Ward CO to Monarch Lake trailhead at Lake Granby. Regardless, we did it and I came away with very sore knees, back and legs, not to mention 535 photos. I wanted to make the trip primarily to shoot Lone Eagle Peak. My grandad visited this place in the ’60’s, and his description of the beauty was more than enough to motivate me to make the trek. What started out as a solo, three day backpack trip, wound up a six person, one day trek. Enjoyable nonetheless. Here are a select few shots…
Again, being a slowpoke, here are some shots from my railfan trip August 20-22.
I learned some things about the Great Salt Lake that I never knew on this trip. The most surprising was that the lake itself is ony 35 feet at its deepest point, and the average depth is only 14 feet!
In 1902 the Southern Pacific Railroad built a trestle across the Great Salt Lake, cutting off 43 miles of the original Central Pacific route from Ogden UT to Lucin UT. In the 50’s the trestle was replaced with a dirt and rock causeway.
It took my time adding these, as I have been exremely busy at work and have had no time at all to post!
I love long exposures! Night in the desert is so cool anyway, and for some reason, it is my favorite place to take these kind of shots.
Camping photographers have a unique advantage, when you know how to take low light photos. You get the evening and twilight, pure night (really awesome when your timing puts you there during a new moon!), and pre-dawn and morning light.
This was the view we were greeted with on our way up Pawnee Pass, where we intended to hike over and camp at Crater Lake, but instead were struck by lighting instead. Needless to say, we didn’t camp at Crater.
One of my favorite shots of Colorado’s state flower.
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