Give in to what you cannot fight, walk among us!
Waterfalls shot, a wider view than the last one. With the sun behind the trees, and some clouds overhead I couldn't quite stop the motion of the falls, but overall I think this shot turned out well.
I'm running out of things to say about the beauty of Colorado, so I'll let the images speak for themselves.
Not from a park or a monument, just caught driving from one place to another. Once again the colours make the image (plus the lone tree in the upper right)
I don't recall where I took this, Colorado National Monument I think, but a nice landscape with great sky ties it together I think.
The sky really makes this image. After a while I'd gotten used to seeing rocks jutting from the landscape everywhere I went and trying to capture them in new or interesting ways was taxing. But when the clouds rolled in suddenly everything came together (cue Beatles music)
Not taken with a true macro, but rather taken with a 17-35mm lens at the closest focual point. I liked how the background turned out.
What I loved about Colorado was the contrasts in nature, as seen here, massive mountains, miles of flat area, then massive mountains again. Coupled with dramatic skies, and you've got a pretty good picture.
Near the end of my trip I ran across an amphitheatre nestled into a series of red rocks (what else, right?) Middle of the week so nothing was playing, but I thought the contrasts between natual and man-made was interesting enough to photograph
When I photograph landscapes, I don't like people in the view, and when I shoot people, I try to minimize the landscapes in the background. This area of Garden of the Gods was quite popular and crowded and I was never able to catch it sans humans. So I went with this shot, the stormy sky was great fun to work with, clouds rolling in and scattering every 5 minutes.
A sequel of sorts, to Tight Squeeze (posted earlier), this is the end of the line for the crevasses at Colorado National Monument, at least the area I went to. The walls are about 30 feet high, for a sense of perspective.
Shot in portrait mode, the river serving as a leading line (Oooo, a school photography term!) to the end of the picture. The Black Mesa rocks really stand out here.
Here you get a sense of colours, from the foreground red rocks, to the black mesa, fading off to blue from the heat and haze, down to the green vegetation by the river.
There are some vistas in Colorado I had the devil's own time capturing properly, Black Mesa Monument being one of them. Colorado is mostly reads and greens, and then there is this one area full of black, very black, rocks. Volcanic history or something, didn't catch the tour explaining it all.
Solitary trees, backed by mountains or farmland have always made a stong impression to me. I've tried to capture that here, along with the brilliant red rocks, and stormy sky.
Taken in Colorado. It was surrounded by fencing, so I poked my camera through (shhhh! Don't tell anyone) to get a cleaner shot.
Yet another of the many beautiful places I visited in Colorado was the Colorado National Monument where this picture was taken. A winding path lead between two large rock formations, ending in a large cul-de-sac just out of view on the right.
Last one, I promise. As I walked around the frozen lake shooting from various angles, some of the shots were overexposed from flare from the sun. A drawback with shooting ultrawide angle lenses. In any case, I really liked the composition of this shot, but the overexposure ruined it, "as is" so a little (ok, a lot) photoshop adjustments and the picture was salvaged.
Colorado was full of surprises. I was driving across the I-70 corridor, flanked on both sides by heavy mountains when it would suddenly level out, rivers would pass by, and then swallowed up by mountains again.
This is clearly a photoshop manipulation. I took what was otherwise an ordinary closeup of the rapids caused by the waterfalls, deepened the colours and blurred out the background.