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)
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)
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)
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)
On the trail to Buchannan Pass we followed this pretty stream which may or may not be the Middle St. Vrain Creek. I was shooting this stream a bunch. Lots of pretty spots. But I thought this had the best composition. Camera balanced on backpack, slow shutter, etc.
(Rocky Mountain National Forest, August 2017)
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)
We come here so often that it’s a challenge to create something new or a better image than last time. It’s good to be challenged though. In this case I had the help of family to hike with, my favorite model and a late spring snow providing plenty of snow melt.
June 2017
Each photo weekend is different. This year we saw rain, snow and sun. We took long hikes and just hung out.
(Rocky Mountain National Park, May 2017)
“The earth has music for those who listen.” –William Shakespeare
Family, snow, mountains. I think this time it was playing Debussy.
(RMNP, Aspen Grove, December 2016)
