Photographer in Colorado

Last Saturday, we had a Christmas Party that Angela hosted for her meditation group. After dinner, David sang a few songs while playing his guitar.

David, Playing Guitar

After David played, he put his guitar back into its case. I made this image of the bridge.

David’s Guitar

Both images were made on iPhone and processing with the “Dramatic B&W” app.

Last month I attended Alain Briot’s photography workshop in Navajoland. One venue we photographed was Monument Valley. I’m still busy processing images from the workshop. Here is one panorama that I made.

Monument Valley Panorama

This image was made with the “See This” app on an iPhone. The app can create different styles of panorama; this one is a David Hockney style panorama.

This weekend I attended the Fine Art Photography Summit in Page run by Alain Briot with Jeff Schewe as guest instructor. We made images at Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon. Here is a sample of images that I made. The following image was made after the sun struck the canyon walls to be reflected in the Colorado River.

Reflections In Horseshoe Bend

Looking down into the canyon, I found this simple composition that showed a reflection of the sunlit canyon wall in the river.

Reflection In The Colorado River

During a visit to Antelope Canyon, I made an image of the slot canyon. During processing, I attempted a black and white conversion that revealed the glowing sandstone.

Antelope Canyon Glow

Here is another simple composition in color.

Antelope Canyon, No 2

The light at this time of the year is really amazing. When going to work, I passed by the Arapahoe Station buildings every day. Nearby buildings are reflected in the windows. I moved around until the reflections were fragmented into several pieces.

Chopped Building Reflection

Later that day, I was in Lodo for one of the Meetup groups. The alley behind Casselmann’s has several murals. Recently they must have been refreshed with new images.

Lodo Alley Mural

Farther along the alley, the artist made a really striking image of the lady and the flower.

Lady And Flower Mural

The fountain at Arapahoe Station changes it height during the course of the day. Later in the week, the fountain had reached its peak height. I noticed reflections of the main fountain in the water at the base of the fountain and made this image.

Fountain Reflection

As one moves around the fountains, the adjacent buildings are also reflected in the water at the base of the fountain. I like the abstract quality of the reflections in the image below.

Abstract Building Reflections

The north-facing front of the Ciber building is in shadow at this time of the year. However, the lawn and hedgerow outside is in full sunlight. This is really very striking in the infra-red image below.

Front Of Ciber Building

Finally, I made an image of the Tuscany Plaza building with avenue of trees lit up in their fall colors. This weak the moon has been waning. The crescent of the opening in the building reminded me of the phase of the moon for this week.

Trees At Tuscany Plaza

Eyeballs For Sale, Eyeballs For Sale! This lady was selling some really tasty snacks. Eyeballs, fingers and brains.

Eyeballs For Sale!

There were just so many zombies all around.

Zombie Pair

This Umbrella Corp officer was in light-sword combat with Darth Vader. They held their pose for a long time to let us photograph.

Hold That Pose

She was too late to be attacked by this zombie. Yum!

Yum, Tasty Umbrella

I like your hat.

I Like Your Hat

Some people just had too much fun. Not enough blood around here!

Having A Fun Time

Some people were totally oblivious of events around them. They just did not care like these chess players.

Chess Players

Head out to the Illuminate Workshops meetup group to see some more images.

Elvis was there too!

Zombie Elvis

This zombie was deep in conversation before I stopped for an image. He stopped in mid sentence while I made this image and then continued his sentence from where he left off!

Interrupted Conversation

Some zombies had some really elaborate hair styles.

Zombie Hair Style

The colorful jester was infected with the zombie virus.

Zombie Jester

This lady was giving blood… Z-type!

Applying Blood

I always like to capture bystanders at these events. This onlooker was surprised when I made this image.

Surprised Onlooker

I really liked the gaze as this zombie looked at the camera.

Zombie Gaze

More to come in part 3.

Yesterday I joined the Illuminate Workshops meetup group for the Annual Denver Zombie Crawl. After meeting, we headed to 16th Street. A band was playing to zombies and everyone alike. Here we got to meet one of the first zombie couples, chained together.

Chained Together

Even this kid got infected with the zombie virus.

Zombie Child

Lots of zombies were on hand to spread the virus.

Making Up

All sorts of people were infected with the virus, as was this bowler-hatted guy.

Zombie With Bowler Hat And Pipe

And don’t forget the Umbrella Corporation who were out to exterminate zombies.

Umbrella Corporation

Zombies even have smart phones.

Even Zombies Have Smart Phones

Mmmm. I wonder if that is a Sprint phone?

More Zombies

This zombie had some great pants. Somehow I don’t see much blood on this one!

Zombie Legs

On to part 2…