7/31/14

This is another of the lightening bolts I was able to capture in the storm that passed by to the north of us not long after the 4th of July.  It's rare to get lightening that actually bolts so I was happy to be able to get a few good images.

7/30/14

This is another of the small waterfalls along South Boulder Creek in Eldorado Canyon in Colorado.  It was taken in the evening so I could easily do a slow shutter speed to get the milky appearance of the water.  The creek was flowing quite strongly as well.

7/29/14

I actually have a title for this one, Buddies Enjoying the View.  When I saw these 2 trees at the Bristle-cone area on Mount Evans it looked like 2 people with their arms towards and kind of around each other just looking out at the landscape.   You can see the type of area these trees grow in this photo as well, at the tree line about 12 to 13,000 feet up the mountain which is a 14,000 footer as they say in Colorado.  It also showed off their colors rather well too.

7/28/14

If you have followed my blog for a while you may remember that my favorite photographer from the early days of photography is William Henry Jackson who's photographs of Yellowstone were instrumental in getting that made into a National Park.  He went on several Hayden Survey trips in Colorado and took photographs at various places, one of which made him rather famous, Mount of the Holy Cross.  When I was in Colorado at the Summit of Mount Evans I was able to view and photograph the Mount myself.  It even still had snow on it so I was rather excited to finally see it in person.  This is my homage to WHJ's photo.  You can see his original here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_the_Holy_Cross#mediaviewer/File:Mountain_of_the_Holy_Cross,_Colorado_-_NARA_-_517691.jpg  which we were able to obtain an original copy of recently to add to our WHJ photograph collection.  You can read info about how he got the photo here:  http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/knudsen/sec3l.htm

7/27/14

This image is an opposite counter part to last week's photo that I really played with and turned into a black & white.  This image is straight out of the camera with only a re-size and removing a dust spot or two.  This is the Cumbres & Toltec locomotive that pulled our excursion moving the passenger cars around after we arrived in Chama, New Mexico.  This locomotive is the oldest of the fleet and the late afternoon clouds really made for a great background for it.

7/26/14

Another scorcher today, over 100 F again.  Ick.  I like it warm but not this warm.  We can't seem to get any rain these days either so grass is all brown and flowers are struggling.  Anyway, I photographed this old windmill at the sunflower field I found.  I love old windmills and I liked the sunflowers stretching out behind. 

7/25/14

I created this a while back with some irises that were in bloom in the yard.  This is a photo manipulation from 2 different photos put together and then a black background was added.