Photographer in Colorado

Yesterday was the annual Zombie Crawl in Downtown Denver — this is was the 10th annual event — and also one of the biggest events in the USA. As usual, there was a huge variety of costumes. This is the fourth year that I have photographed this event. This year I joined the South West Photo Team Meetup Group for this event. There are more images here. In previous years, I joined the Illuminate Workshops Meetup Group. A couple of days ago I learned that Efrain Cruz, leader of the group, had passed away. Efrain introduced me to the Zombie Crawl, so these images are in memory of Efrain.

Zombie, With Big Boots

As usual, there are as many spectators as there are zombies. Images can be found everywhere!

Black And White Hat

I noticed this umbrella walking by, so I had to investigate.

Umbrella Girl, No 1

Here is the umbrella girl.

Umbrella Girl, No 2

The footwear is just as interesting. Here our umbrella is joined by another lady with heels.

I Like Those Shoes

This is “Just Do It”.

Just Do It

The Spartans…

Zombie Spartans

Clowning around.

Zombies, Clowning Around

And big hair!

Good Hair Day

With her companion — lady in blue…

Lady In Blue

With the trip to Iceland, I missed out on many of the fall colors in the mountains. Yesterday, I headed to the North Fork of the South Platte River, near Foxton. Here I found lots of fall colors, but no aspen. The picked a location along the riverside where I could explore the scenery. In the morning, I was viewing some of Charles Cramer’s images. This gave me some inspiration in capture the following image of the water flowing past the yellow fall colors on the far bank of the river.

Fall Colors On The North Fork

I guess all the rain and flowing rivers in Iceland must have inspired me to make the following image. I chose a long exposure, 1/5 second in this case, to capture the flowing movement of the river.

Water Flow On The North Fork

Further downstream, I found some grasses on the far bank. I was careful to include the boulder, surrounded by flowing water, in this composition.

Fall Colors And Riverside Grasses

It is always worthwhile to turn around while making photographs — in this case I was rewarded with this image. It was late in the afternoon and I found the falling sun backlighting the leaves in the tree as well as creating some catch lights in the water flowing down the river.

North Fork Rushing Past Fall Colors

I continue downstream along the North Fork and then headed up the South Fork of the river. In this image, I found the reds and yellows of the fall colors, mixed with the greens from the grasses, reflecting in the river.

South Fork Fall Color Reflections

The river was busy during the afternoon, probably because of people taking advantage of the recent warmer weather before the cold temperatures return. Passing vehicles kicked up dust that was lit by the lowering sun in one of the last images that I made for the day.

Backlit Dust, South Fork

The last couple of days were spent in the area of Akureyri. A couple of days ago, it rained the entire day. Yesterday morning, we were greeted with snow on the mountains. The wind was really pumping for the whole day. This led to some really great atmospheric images.

Clouds Above Mountains, Akureyri

Later in the afternoon, I captured this image of the sunlight falling on the church in the foreground. In this image, it took a while to find the right spot where the church was not set against a bright sky. The city of Akureyri is across the fjord.

View Towards Akureyri

Close by, I found “Huglist”. I’m not sure of why this guy is here; perhaps this has something to do with the adjacent museum. He stands about 12 foot tall.

Huglist, Akureyri

I made a trip to the waterfalls at Dettifoss. This is an image looking down on the falls. The amount of water flowing over the falls is huge, but this is difficult to appreciate from a still photo. I also made some videos clips, with audio, to record the power of all that water flowing down the gorge. This will have to wait until I get home.

Dettifoss

There are lots of rainbows in Iceland! I made this panorama to that I could include the entire rainbow.

Lots Of Rainbows In Iceland

A couple of days ago, I discovered that Doctor Who came to Iceland! This is actually a monument to commemorate 100 years of telecoms in Iceland.

Doctor Who Came To Iceland

This morning, I found this guy flying high. Both yesterday and today, the wind was really pumping in Akureyri, so this image is an appropriate reminder of the weather.

Flying High

The sheep in Iceland are really skittish. However, I did manage to capture this image from inside the car… a few seconds before the sheep ran away!

Icelandic Sheep

Last night I stayed at the hostel in Vagnasstaðir. The night was clear, and the Northern Lights made their appearance at about 10:30pm. I made a couple of images at the roadside, about 2kms from the hostel.

Northern Lights, Vagnasstadir, No 1

The display of lights were much more spectacular then the image from Laugarvatn.

Northern Lights, Vagnasstadir No 2

After making these images, I returned to the hostel to help out some of the other guests who were attempting to make images of the northern lights. My settings were 400 iso, 30 seconds, f/5.6.

This morning, I headed out to Jokullsarlon for sunrise. The icebergs flow out of the lagoon to sea and are then washed up onto the beach. In this image, I positioned the camera so that the rising sun shines through the iceberg.

Iceberg At Sunrise, Jokullsarlon

This afternoon, I headed in to Höfn to pick up some groceries. On the return trip, I spotted some Icelandic horses at the roadside. This white horse caught my attention.

Icelandic Pony At Roadside

As I moved around, I caught this image of the pony peeking over another horse.

White Pony, Hiding Behind

Soon after, half a dozen cars had stopped by the roadside. Later, a tour bus arrived… that was the signal for me to leave!

Yaay… Last night, I got to see the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. After two overcast nights, we had a clear night. The lights were faint but visible.

Northern Lights, Laugavatn

This morning I arrived at Reykjavik for another trip to Iceland. As usual the weather in Iceland changes every 5 minutes. Today it was overcast and rainy… but I did get a glimpse of blue skies and sunshine on distant mountains. Along the shore is a magnificent sculpture “Sun Warrior” that I captured in this image.

Sun Warrior, Reykjavik

I took a walk through the harbor, looking for a late breakfast. While there, I noticed clouds of spray emanating from bow thrusters of a ship on the spilway.

Spray From Waterjet

That got me interested. On the other side, a dock worker was doing some high-pressure waterjet cleaning.

Waterjet Cleaning The Lundey

This ship took my interest because of the unusual shape for the bow.

Lundey On Slipway

In the back street was an interesting bike rack made of welded chain links with colorful seating in the background.

Bike Rack at Harbor

Stopping at Cafe Haiti, I got a bite to eat before returning back to car. Passing the bike rack again, I made some blurred images of the bike rack — by de-focusing the lens. This exaggerated all the colors.

Blurred Bike Rack

Close to bike rack, I found some unusual seating. Two stainless steel propeller blades attached to the wall.

Propeller Blade Seating

That completes some initial images before looking for the hostel.