Thinking about ice in the August mid-west weather… Ouray, CO, last Feburary.
Ice
Category Archives: Outdoors
Ride the Flare
Second time I’ve tried this. Learned to pick time of day and my place to shoot. Sun was so bright it was hard to use the view finder so I knew what I wanted but couldn’t tell if I got it until I came down off the mountain. Sometimes I get lucky.
Milky-way from Horseshoe
On my last trip to Estes I had one night to try to capture the Milky-way. It was the first night there. The other nights were too cloudy and the moon was waxing too. I dragged my buddy Tom with with me to experience the stars in the darkness.
Later I tried Live Composite in camera, stacking in Photoshop and just processing in Lightroom. This is from Lightroom. The others were no better.
It was a nice night- clear, comfortable temps, no wind. A pack of coyotes were howling in the meadow, they were having a good time too.
Alpine Snowboarding
A big mid-March snow gave me a great opportunity for snowboarding pics. Beautiful day, no wind. Used my snowshoes to stamp out an place in knee deep show so I had my pic of placement. So fun.
Ice Climbing
In the Wild Basin area of RMNP we took a horse trail I hadn’t been on before. Got a great opportunity to watch and photo my son making a few runs up the ice. Not gonna lie, there were a lot more chunks of ice flying around than I expected. Glad I brought my helmet.
February 10, 2021
Bryce Canyon
We had visited the North Rim, Bryce Canyon and Arches with in 4 days. While they were all amazing, we both thought Bryce was the best. We took a short hike 2 miles down into the canyon to get a feel for the depth of the canyon and fully experience the wonder of this place.
Nov. 7, 2020
Edge of Time
In May, I went up to Jurassic Park to scout a location for star photos. A storm rolled in so the night shoot was cancelled but I did get this photo of my son on top of the Edge of Time.
(OMD E-M1 m2, 21mm, f16, 1/2500sec)
Early Spring Day
So much of what I shoot is “make the best of what you have.” E.g. An elk is in the meadow but the light is poor or the animal is too far away, etc. In this case I saw the rocks across the creek and saw in my head what I wanted. I was able to place myself and my grand-daughter where I wanted.
It’s pretty satisfying to be able to see the vision become reality.
Suprise Elk
I was snowshoeing the Cub Lake trail. It was not a great day because the wind was really strong, blowing stinging snow. I had my head down waiting for the wind to let up, just watching my feet. When I looked up a big elk was grazing just off the trail. I stopped and got a few shots off before the cold killed my battery.
I backed off around the corner of a big rock to get out of the wind to swap batteries and switch to a long lens, Panasonic 100-400. I thought I’d move off the trail into the meadow to get a better angle. When I got back the elk was joined by two others- even better!
It was tough shooting at 400 because the sun was in my eyes and I had to hold the camera one-handed and use the other hand to block the sun. But I had a blast shooting as best I could and watching these magnificent animals.
Colorado Mustangs
I had the opportunity to visit the Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary (https://greatescapesanctuary.org/) and photograph these beautiful animals. While we had snow a week earlier, there was great weather for this sunset photo op.
I highly recommend this place- great staff, very accommodating and we came home not only with great photos but a greater knowledge about the wild mustangs from the Sand Wash Basin of Colorado and their rescue.