Telluride, Colorado – Part 1
(Click on images for a larger version). There is something to be said for living in a fantasy world. Check that: there is something to be said for visiting a fantasy world … for a few days. Telluride...
View ArticleTime Out … Fall Color Preview
Going to briefly interrupt the Southwest Colorado trip with a quick preview of this past week’s trips to Steamboat Springs, Snowmass and Aspen for fall color in the Rockies. We usually have an autumn...
View ArticleGraspin’ Aspen 2010 – Steamboat Springs
Since 2007, Hailey and I have made a special long-weekend trip in the fall to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Yep, the same Steamboat Springs that seems to grace every other post on this blog. I know. We...
View ArticleFall Color at the Maroon Bells
(Click on images for a larger view) I’ve struggled to photograph the Maroon Bells in the past. Struggled because of two things: (1) everybody has photographed them and an original angle is getting more...
View ArticleSwitzerland: Desaturated, and in Black and White
(Click on images for a larger view) I recently spent two weeks touring around Switzerland with my wife and our one-year-old daughter. It was a magnificent trip — one of those...
View ArticleAlpenporn: Hardcore Swiss Mountain Vistas
(Click on images for a larger view) Go ahead. Ogle all you want. Words often fail me. They fail me the most when it comes to mountains. Grandeur. Majesty. Magnificence. Please: those words are chumps...
View ArticleThe Semi-Complete Shooters Guide to: Berner Oberland (Part 1)
Here’s my dilemma: I have too many good photos from the Berner Oberland for one post. This has little to do with me and my photography skills. It has everything to do with the extreme beauty of the...
View ArticleHow to Photograph the Matterhorn
Imagine you took the world’s 50 most famous mountains — Everest, K2, Denali, Fuji — and put their image on a flash card. Now imagine that you’ve flipped through the entire deck and quizzed yourself....
View ArticlePhotographing Great Sand Dunes National Park – Part 2 (Into the Dune Field)
So I set forth into the Great Sand Dunes with 32 ounces of water and my camera backpack. Climbing into the dunes is an exercise in deception. The approach is easy — perhaps a quarter mile over tightly...
View ArticleCamping with Kids at Pearl Lake State Park, Colorado
Each summer as a kid, I could always count on at least one family camping trip to Pearl Lake State Park north of Steamboat Springs. It would usually be the highlight of my summer break. Deep in the...
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