Wildlife, landscape and weather photography
Well, given the snowstorm the Denver area is getting hit with today, I am sure this scene looks much different now than when I took this picture on Sunday. Ha!
Directly toward sunrise, the show wasn’t particularly great on this day but, to the north, the clouds lit up in stunning shades of orange and pink. Behind, some touches of blue to throw in yet another color.
This is one of my favorite sunrise spots and I think you can see why.
On this day this past weekend, I was in no particular rush to head out on my photo excursion. Clouds promised to keep the light dim and they looked to be pretty solid so I wasn’t expecting much in the way of a good sunrise to capture.
As I was driving, I started to see some faint hints of color and then more and then more. I put the pedal to the metal and raced to the closest spot that would provide a decent view. The show didn’t last but a few minutes before everything faded to the gray I was expecting but, while it did last, well, as you can see it was a mighty fine view.
Taken at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Denver, Colorado.
An absolutely beautiful morning today on the Colorado Front Range. There weren’t many clouds to the east at sunrise but to the west there were and the sun did a fantastic job coloring the sky and landscape.
This is actually three images shot separately and then stitched together to create the panorama.
If you look hard at those snow-capped mountains, you can see everything from Mount Evans on the left to Mount Meeker / Longs Peek toward the middle and well to the north beyond.
A favorite, early morning spot of mine. Sunday morning when my daughter and I were heading out from camp in the pre-dawn hours, I wasn’t in a particular rush to get there. There weren’t many clouds and breezy winds were sure to upset the water’s surface.
As we arrived though, I realized we needed to get a move on it to catch the show before it ended. There was just enough cloud cover and color to make it interesting and the wind had died down.
Walking quite briskly, we hurried to get in position and managed some nice shots of the streaking clouds and their reflection on the surface of Sprague Lake.
A lesson to never underestimate Mother Nature. You just never know what you are going to end up with!
An absolutely gorgeous morning on the last day of July in Alaska.
I woke up and stepped outside at our campsite overlooking Kachemak Bay and was greeted with this scene. After snapping a few pics, I pulled up a chair, faced it east and with a coffee cup in hand soaked in the view.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
Ahhh! Taken last Saturday as I didn’t get to take a photo excursion today. That was not easy to do and it pained me. 😉
This was my view last weekend at dawn in Colorado’s high country as the sun popped up over the horizon at 10,300 feet. I may have missed today but I will be back up there next weekend!
A break from pics of my visit to the 49th state to an image from the 38th taken this past weekend.
My photo outing Saturday wasn’t as productive as I would have liked but I did find a few worthy subjects. Most notable were the first signs of blooming sunflower fields.
Only a small portion of them have opened with prime time probably still a week or two away. The ones that were open did make a few, nice compositions like this one.
Taken two weeks ago on Saturday, it was a typically gorgeous morning on the Great Plains. The sunrise didn’t fill the sky like they oftentimes do but close to the horizon, it was a beautiful scene. Crepuscular rays were shooting out of the rising sun and illuminating the patches of blue above. Not much to complain about!
Sometimes the simplest of scenes can be quite beautiful. As the sun was cresting the horizon a warm summer’s day recently, this buck lazily ate his way across the plains. While I certainly snapped some pics, I made sure to set the camera down and take the time to just soak in what my eyes were seeing.
My first trip to the top of Mount Evans yesterday and it started off with this gorgeous scene before me. Nothing to complain about for sure. Well, other than the 35 degree temperature and 40mph winds. 😉
That is of course expected at that altitude and while I was prepared for the conditions, it was a bit of a shock to the system after getting used to much milder weather at lower elevations.
