Category Archives: Photography

Mountain House

I wish I could say I found this house off the beaten track, high in the mountains but the truth is it was just at the beginning of a trail head in the front range.

OMD-EM1 Mark II, August 2018

Kansas By Train

A recent trip to the middle of Kansas brought me to Abeline. And to a train on a hot and windy day. To keep from thinking about the heat I decided to see how much I could squeeze out of the landscape. You know, it’s Kansas.

Close to Abeline, Kansas. June 2018

Moose and Water

Moose…finally. I chose a super windy day to drive up Trailridge. It was too windy for elk so I headed on down the west side. This girl was taking her time eating the spring grass. I had wanted a moose pic for a long time and finally got my chance.

(RMNP, June 2018. OMD-E M5 Mark ii, 300mm)

Wilson Lake

I spent a couple days roaming around central Kansas. Just hiking around with my camera. On the second day I was at Wilson Lake, northwest of Salina. Some really nice rock formations. I thought I’d do some astral photography with those rocks in the foreground but there was too much light in the north from the city of Lucas. I don’t think the night sky shot would’ve been better than this though.

(Wilson Lake, May 2018)

Transition

Canon to OM-D.

On this trip I only brought the Olympus OM-D. The change from a larger DSLR to the mirror-less system meant I found myself willing to take the camera with me everywhere. Even to one of the last snow storms of the winter.

Winter to spring.

(outside RMNP, March 2018)

Christmas 2017

Headed up into the mountains to see some snow. I took these with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II. Since it is a new model to me I was in a “use it to learn it” mode and left the Canon back at the cabin. It was a great experience. Attaching it to the Peak clip on my backpack strap I hardly knew it was there. In short, it was a nice downsize and I was very happy with the images.

(RMNP, early January 2018)

Red sunset in the mountains

I got a new camera, an Olympus OMD E-5 Mark 2. It’s micro 4:3 which means it will be easier to lug around in the mountains. Still love my Canon but I gotta admit the portability and ease of it means I’ll be shooting with it more. I paired it with a 14 – 150 Olympus lens.

(Backyard of my place in Estes Park, Nov. 2017)

Colorado Backpacking

Amazing, scenic trip. Four days in a southern Colorado national forest. This was our water source and view from our tents the last two nights. Since we were backpacking I didn’t take a dslr, just a GoPro and my iPhone. Kind of hard to get a bad shot with this landscape.

(July 2017)