Last Sunday, the Colorado Photo Festival continued with a workshop program. Several workshops were offered. I chose the Guanella Pass hosted by Stephen Weaver. Seven of us traveled from Golden to Georgetown by van and headed up the pass. We stopped at one location before reaching the summit. Then we headed down to a meadow that had a variety of different wildflower species. I made to following image of a pair of asters located in the shade of willow bushes. The sun grazed the top of the willow bush to light up the flowers.
Two Asters, Guanella Pass
We spent a couple of hours making images in the meadow before heading down Duck Creek. Crossing the creek, I found a location where algae formed a nice tasty brown scum on a pond in the slow flowing creek.
Algae Scum In Duck Creek
We made our way back up towards the parking lot. Looking over the the west side of the pass, I made this image of the distant grassy mountain top. I included the ridge with willows and pine trees as the foreground for the image below. There were two elk grazing in the meadow at the lower left corner.
Late Afternoon Skies Over Guanella Pass
We moved over the the east side parking lot for some late afternoon snack before continuing with some more photography. We headed down to the lake where the plan was to later catch the sunset. The clouds had built up on the east side of the pass. In this image Mount Bierstadt is the peak on the right, with the Sawtooth Ridge on the left of the peak.
Clouds Over Mount Bierstadt And Sawtooth
We made our way to the lake shore. In this image, I captured the reflections of Mount Bierstadt behind the grasses at shore.
Reflections Of Mount Bierstadt
Here is another image looking across the lake to the south of the pass.
Lake Below Mount Bierstadt
Finally we moved to a mound on the eastern shore of the lake. As the sun dipped down below the peaks in the west, the clouds were lit by red light of sunset.
Sunset Over Guanella Pass
Soon after, we packed up and headed back to the van for the return trip to Golden.