Photographer in Colorado

The north wall of the Shell gas station in Carmel Junction is adorned with a mural. Or is it a mural? The gas and electrical boxes are part of buildings in a street scene.

Today I made the trip to Escalante, stopping at Hanksville. There is a really cool gas station here – Hollow Mountain.

Another attraction in Hanksville is this “Hunt’s Wrecker Service” Ford truck.

On the road to Torrey is this concrete truck. You may remember this from one of my Project-52 images last year.

Driving into Moab along the Colorado Riverway entrance, I stopped to make some photographs along the river. The sandstone reflected the afternoon sunlight into the canyon. Here are reflections of the sandstone canyon wall on the hood on my truck.

This was made with an iPhone 4s. The images are just fabulous.

Here are more photos of fall colors.

After a few weeks of fall colors in the mountains, the fall colors have finally worked their way down to Denver. This morning we had blue skies, with no clouds. Walking to work, I passed this tree that was adorned with yellow leaves.

Fall Color And Blue Sky

Here is an image made under cloudy skies yesterday.

Avenue Of Fall Trees

Passing by Samson Park takes one through a tunnel of fall colors.

Tunnel Through Fall Trees

Looking up, all you can see is a mass of yellow leaves.

Tree Full Of Fall Colors

There are some red and green leaves out there too.

Red And Green Fall Colors

Finally, I passed by this pond, where red fall colors are captured in reflections from the pond.

The Geese Are Back For The Season

The Canada Geese are back in town for the season. They have been slowly returning from their summer breeding grounds.

A couple of weeks ago, we joined Colorado Preservation Inc. for a weekend “On The Road” trip to South Park. The event started on a Friday evening, where we stayed in the Bunk House at M Lazy C Ranch. On Saturday, we headed for breakfast on the ranch. Outside the building was this cool Lasso Horse that is used for practicing lassoing.

Lasso Horse

After breakfast, a short walk led us back to the Bunk House. The sun was just rising above this lone pine tree.

Dawn At M Lazy C Ranch

Soon we boarded the tour bus that took us to Como on the road that followed close to Tarryall creek. There were many interesting historical buildings that we visited in Como. This included the schoolhouse and roundhouse. Along the roadside, we came across this shopper.

Shopped Till I Dropped

We then visited Mountain Man Gallery which also serves as the town’s Post Office. Outside the store is this carving of a wise man.

Wise Man Carving

We also visited this Pink and Blue house that the owner had opened to visitors for the day.

Pink And Blue

Some of the other interesting historical sites in Como include the Roundhouse and Eating House. During the 19th century mining era in Colorado, the Roundhouse were home to locomotives serving the narrow gauge railroad line from Denver to South Park. Como was the junction where a branch line climbed Boreas Pass to serve the town of Brekenridge. The Eating House is part of the hotel that served railroad visitors in years gone by. Currently this is being restored to its previous glory. Our tour also included lunch at the Eating House.

Later we boarded the tour bus for Alma. Here we attended a lecture by Steven Veatch, who gave an excellent presentation on mining in the Alma area. Steven has an interesting blog. Later we visited the Paris Mill (gold mining) and later had dinner in Fairplay before returning to the M Lazy C Ranch for the night.

The following morning before breakfast, I took a stroll around the ranch. I came across this Chevy truck that had accumulated some frost during the night.

Chevy Truck At The Ranch

At the horse paddocks, I met several horses that were busy with their breakfast. Here is one horse munching his meal.

Horse In The Paddock

Finally, before I headed out for breakfast, I captured these four butts!

Four Butts Feeding

After breakfast, we packed up and headed out to Buffalo Peaks Ranch that will be future site of the Rocky Mountain Land Library.

This was a fun weekend.

Recently, I joined another photowalk with the Illuminate Workshops group. August was a night shoot at Cherry Creek. Here are some of my favorite images from the shoot. Lighting from the store signage brings out the texture on the walls.

Blue Sign

The sodium lights in an alley cast these shadows in the parking lot.

Parking Lot Shadows

Black and white treatment for this empty parking lot improves the yellow sodium lighting for this image.

Parking Lot Blocks

I found this alley to be really interesting. What is behind that open door? The following two images need HDR treatment to capture the range of light in the alley.

Cherry Creek Alley

The door was the rear entrance to a restaurant. I like the contrast between the yellow of the interior of the building and the bluish cast from the garage’s fluorescent lighting.

Parking Garage In The Alley

This restaurant had closed for the night. But the chair feet were having a great time!

Chairs, Feet First

Cherry Creek has some novel street lighting. This is another image that benefited from HDR treatment.

Street Lights At Cherry Creek

Lighting from a nearby star cast these interesting shadows of the security grill and gates.

Gated Shadows