Category: Sessions and Locations
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San Luis Valley
Alamosa, Colorado, sits in the middle of the vast 8,000-square-mile San Luis Valley. The valley floor is at an elevation of over 7,500′ and is surrounded by mountain ranges that feature 14,000′ peaks. The valley is primarily agricultural—lots of ranching and farming—and there is a fair amount of open space, as is pretty clear in…
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Southern Colorado Gold
My wife and I are on a mission to see the entire state of Colorado. This isn’t happening at a breakneck pace, mind you, but we are making steady progress. Whenever we drive somewhere new we color in the roads with a pink highlighter on our rather beat-up paper Colorado map. At this point, there…
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Western Virginia in the Fall
Two weeks after my shooting day in New Hampshire, I was staying for the week in Norton, Virginia, which offers plenty of fall color of its own. The image above is just a tiny piece of endless forests bursting with color. Unfortunately, I was only free for a couple short forays into the woods that…
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The New Hampshire Challenge
I have alluded to this in the previous two posts, but there was a distinct challenge during my one-day New Hampshire photographic marathon: so many trees with so many colors. Unlike the forests in the Western US where evergreen trees dominate, in New Hampshire the deciduous trees hold the overwhelming majority. When confronted with the…
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Streamside in New Hampshire
As I continued my one-day photographic road trip around New Hampshire, the rain tempered a bit, but the skies were completely cloudy the entire day. I usually don’t complain about the light—different lighting conditions just give you different things to work with. Since there was no direct sunlight, backlit leaves weren’t going to be on…
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A Little Pond in New Hampshire
I recently had the opportunity to spend an October day—an entire day—photographing in New Hampshire. If I had to live the same month over and over again, Groundhog Day style, I would hope for October because it is pretty much the best month everywhere. (Except Arizona. There it is February.) Certainly in New England, October…
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Harem in Paradise
The Yellowstone River flows northward through Montana’s Paradise Valley, winding its way through farms and ranches. On my recent visit, I saw a number of pronghorn, but they were always rather distant. I did, however, come across plenty of elk within reach. The bull elk above was keeping an eye on his ladies and (presumably…
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Mammoth Hot Springs
After spending most of the day photographing in the Paradise Valley, Montana, I found myself at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It was late in the afternoon and Yellowstone is a massive park, but I knew that Mammoth Hot Springs was only a few miles from this entrance. It was going to be…
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Fences in Paradise
Late last week I drove my daughter to Pray, Montana, so she could attend a wedding. The perk for me was that I had a full Friday to photograph in a pretty area where I had never been. It is so pretty, in fact, that it is called Paradise Valley. The valley runs pretty much…
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LoHi
We have lived in the Denver area for less than two years and there are many areas that are entirely unknown to us, so we make an effort to go to places just because we have never been there. It’s almost like travel, but closer. Our wedding anniversary was on a Sunday in August and…