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Blue hour yesterday at Oxbow. I got a kick out of the diving ducks, and, sure enough, they lined up will with Moran.

The Abyss trail has one end on the south side of Guanella Pass, the other on Mt Evans. This year, because of COVID, Mt Evans has been closed except to foot & bicycle traffic. This was intended as a recon trip to check out the fall colors since it snowed significantly a few weeks ago. I went...

I was going to call this one something like "Ladies & Gentians" but that made it sound like I had Lady Slippers in the collection, which I don't. From my hike the other day on the Abyss Trail on the south side of Guanella Pass. The meadow where I have seen them before was completely toast, so I...

Love seems to be a theme these days, so........ I went for a hike, looking for gentians, but distracted by the aspen leaves that were in the process of turning. The ones that still had green veins particularly caught my attention, but it was darned hard to find one that didn't have brown spots...

I will have 3 entries in this juried Louisville, CO show. It runs Sept 8-13, 2020 & will have both in-person & online viewings. The link to the show (with subsequent link available for their COVID-19 compliance) is here. Obviously, I won't see any of you there, but if you are in the area or...

Getting around to more of this collection. This was around sunrise: less wind, shorter (45mm) lens.

This shot had a lot of contrast, so I thought I'd see how a B&W would work. Kind of a post-apocalyptic look, I think, though not as much as Alisa's smoky sunflower. C&C always welcome.

I'd gone down to the Sand Dunes one other time to catch the sunflowers in bloom. I thought they were pretty good. This year, the number of them far outdid that year. The smoke from the fires filtered the sun a bit, but wasn't nearly as bad as in the Denver Metro area (it didn't hurt my lungs...

As I was hanging my print versions of this in color & B&W, I started thinking that I liked the bB&W better. C&C welcome

Jackass Pass in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, I mean. Part 1: I had gone up there 2 weeks earlier, hoping to catch the comet Neowise over the Cirque of the Towers as it would be to the WNW, which was a perfect orientation from there. Actually, to backtrack a little, my plans weren't...

On an evening walk, I saw a community of arctic gentians just below Sloan Lake (just a hair below 13,000') on the hike to Handies Peak in American Basin. I didn't have my macro lens with me, so I went back early the next morning to catch them before the sun got high. These blooms were in front...

I met up with Jim Fox over the last couple of days in American Basin. While we didn't get epic skies or amazing, endless carpets of wildflowers, it was still a nice place to hang out.

The Snowy Range Diamond dominates the landscape in the Medicine Bows of Wyoming. It's a great roadside stop this time of year for hiking and appreciating the wildflowers. Lots of fishing & off-roading. And mosquitos, though I lucked out there, mostly being where it was windy.

On my way back after a thoroughly disorganized long weekend trip to WY, I hiked a bit up the Lakes Trail in the Medicine Bows. It was generally cloudy, which made the hiking from 10,500' to 11,000' much easier, but comet viewing more of a theoretical endeavor than reality. The wildflowers are...

For once,I didn't need to hurry back to town & was able to go all the way up to Jasper Lake in Colorado's Indian Peaks. I greedily soaked up the perfect solitude and enjoyed the breeze that was just enough to keep the mosquitos at bay.

I've been house/plant sitting for a former neighbor (I sold my house, so maybe I'm the "former") and decided to take advantage of them having several hummingbird feeders. Colorado tends to have a lot of Rufous hummingbirds. They can be pretty aggressive, chasing all others away. When I've...

This one was a 1.6 second exposure with trees for a foreground at 200mm Here's one with it just left of center

I drove up to RMNP early this morning, intending to go up Trail Ridge Road to shoot the comet. Well, at the entrance there was a blinking, lit up sign saying "no early entry". Then, just past the Bear Lake turnoff, there was a huge truck flanked by traffic cones completely blocking the road...

Not much of a sunrise (cloudless sky, but no wind) up on Trail Ridge Road this morning, but going up that early meant that I didn't need a permit :). Only 1 other vehicle at this parking area. I wasn't familiar with it, so didn't find this composition until I had turned around & was heading...

Boring title, I know. This is below Guanella Pass in Colorado. Kings Crown Parry's primrose I think this is a white polemonium. I've never seen albas before.