The Milkyway from Lost Park in Pike National Forest, Colorado.

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Today’s digital cameras provide a huge advantage over the old days of film for night sky photography. High ISO capabilities and the immediate feedback of LCD playback allow for experimentation and dialing in your settings. The results are amazing compared to what I used to get, struggling with film.
I (re)discovered the joy of night sky and star photography several months ago during a trip to New Mexico’s Bisti Wilderness. My results were satisfactory, but I knew I’d do better with a faster lens. After doing some research and weighing the options, I compromised on quality vs. price and found a …

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Nature is often messy, drab, dirty, harsh and chaotic. Powerful forces are at work and sometimes they wreak havoc, leaving paths of destruction.
You’ve probably seen videos showing the immense power of an avalanche racing down a steep mountainside – a white, roiling tumble of powdery acceleration, engulfing all in its path. They are beautiful and awe-inspiring to watch, from a distance. But at ground level, underneath all that pure white energy, rock and earth and tundra and spruce are being scoured off the mountain, shredded to bits and strewn in a jumble at the bottom of a pile when everything …

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One of my favorite wildflowers and some of the first to appear as the snow recedes…

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I wonder how many lakes are named “Mirror Lake?”    ;-)

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After several days of photographing completely cloudless skies in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming (bummer), we headed south to the Snowy Range. And we arrived just in time for a magnificent sunset – what a treat!
Please click on the image above to view a larger size. Really! Go ahead and click, its worth it…  :-)

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Here are a few more images from my recent backpacking trip to Cirque of the Towers. Each peak, or tower, in the cirque has its own look – its own character. Each has a different, dramatic face rising from a rock-jumble base. And each pierces the sky with a different spear-shaped summit. This is part of the cirque’s appeal. Spires of the same material uniquely carved by wind, water and ice.
I’m sure you noticed that each image above reflects a peak in a tarn, pool or stream. This type of image was one of my goals for this trip, so …

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The Rocky Mountain Nature Photographers group has a print exhibition at the College Hill Library this month. My Early Morning at Unnamed Tarn panorama from the Snowy Range in Wyoming is on display along with 34 other prints from some very talented photographers.
The show runs from August 2 to August 30. The College Hill Library is located at 112 Avenue and Stuart Street in Westminster, CO and is open Mon-Thurs: 9am – 9pm, Fri-Sat: 10am – 5pm, Sunday: 1pm – 5pm.
If you’re in the area, stop by and check it out!

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Hidden Lake lies right-smack at the base of Warrior Peaks in the Cirque of the Towers. Its name comes from the fact that its not visible from the lower parts of the cirque. But this turquoise colored gem can be seen from Jackass Pass and we could see it from our camp high on the southern rim of the cirque. The route we took to get to the lake had us scaling the edge of the waterfall that forms Hidden Lake’s outlet and hopping over, through and even under some of the giant, granite boulders that form the moraine hiding …

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