blue lakes

This is Lower Blue Lakes in the Sneffels Wilderness area in SW Colorado. It's one of my favorite places to backpack too, or to just make it a short day hike. On this day, it was in the afternoon, with the typical afternoon thunderstorm heading in. If you look close, you can see rain drops in...

Normally in June there is snow still in this meadow area, but not this year. But it was still wet in the meadow which made for super cool reflections in Lower Blue Lakes in Colorado. All comments are welcome, Jim #1 - Original #2 - Edit - Brighter

Here is a short video of Lower Blue Lake in the San Juan Wilderness in SW Colorado. I am not happy with the way the water had gotten blown out in the last part of the video, but I am hoping it's something that non-photographers will even notice like we do. It's a learning lesson for me to...

590nm Sony 6300, 55-200 lens

This was taken on a trip up to Blue Lakes with @JimFox summer of 2019.

Still going through photos from earlier this year.

As Amy and I were hiking up to Blue Lakes in Colorado a month ago hikers coming down were telling us that there was a bride coming down from Blue Lakes in her wedding dress. The possibility made light bulbs go off in my head about how cool that could look. So we hiked for a short bit but stopped...

From a week ago up at Blue Lakes in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. This is on the trail leading up to the Middle lake and looking down on the Lower lake. I hiked up to the lower Lake with Amy, and then I ran up to this location while Amy was exploring the Lower lake area and she was...

Much like my tribute post to Alan, I am sure Kurt will shake his head when he sees this. But on the way back down from the Blue Lakes in Colorado yesterday and the wildflowers were in shadow I spotted this isolated group that I thought looked really cool. As I set up for the shot I thought of...

Now I am sure Alan will just shake his head wondering how on earth he inspired this... but minus the moss draped trees of the PNW when I saw this little forest scene I spotted hiking down from Blue Lakes in Colorado with Amy, it made me think of Alan. All comments are welcome and Alan feel free...

Another view from Middle Blue Lakes in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, the afternoon storm was a joy to view. This is from the outlet as it begins it's decent down to Lower Blue Lakes. The light from the incoming storm was really cool. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is the lower lake of three lakes adjacent to Mt Sneffels in CO. All comments welcome

The storm was rushing by me, and I had just a few more minutes to shoot before I was engulfed in this storm and needing to make a hasty retreat among the rain, hail and lightning. This is the inlet area for Middle Blue Lakes in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. The water cascades down out of...

This is my first post on this site, so this is a bit of an experiment to see if I'm doing this right. This is the trail that I met our host Jim Fox on and who introduced me to FocalWorld. Feel free to critique the image. Due to time constraints I put photography on hold for several years so now...

My wildflower hunting in Colorado this summer took me up to one of my normal haunts, Blue Lakes in the San Juan Mountains. This is actually the far end of Middle Blue Lakes, there is a really nice field of flowers with lot's of Columbine here. I didn't get to shoot too long though as not long...