Here’s another from the same area looking at Red Peak…
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Archive for August, 2009
First Light on Red Peak
Submitted by Scott on August 23rd, 2009
Earlier this month I’d planned on spending a weekend backpacking at Willow Lakes, in the Eagles Nest Wilderness – a place that has been on my “must photograph” list for a long time. Unfortunately, I had to cancel/postpone that trip, yet again. I couldn’t get that location out of my mind and I just couldn’t bear to let it slip away, yet again, this summer. So yesterday I woke at 1:15am and drove to the trailhead and hit the trail. Roughly 5.5 miles of hiking in the dark landed me at the location shown below at just the right …
Paradise B&W
Submitted by Scott on August 14th, 2009
Watanga Mountain and an Unnamed Spire – Paradise Park, Rocky Mountain National Park
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Ten Lake Park
Submitted by Scott on August 11th, 2009
Another location from the Paradise Park trip a couple weeks ago. This is sunset at Ten Lake Park…
And a vertical, if you prefer…
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Frost in July
Submitted by Scott on August 2nd, 2009
We spent our last night at Ten Lake Park (yes, there are 10 lakes – at least) and we woke to a crisp, fresh and slightly frosty morning. And yes, this is July in the Rockies – at 11,250 feet elevation! We had mostly cloudless skies and our location shadowed us from the early morning sun. So my attention turned to the minute details of the frost edging the wildflowers leaves and lacing the tundra.
Bistort and Globefower…
The leaves of the Globeflower remind me of Strawberry plants and looked beautiful trimmed in frost…
I shot the above image at the extent of …
Watanga Mountain Sunrise
Submitted by Scott on August 1st, 2009
A spectacular sunrise to start off our 3rd day in Paradise Park…
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