wildflowers

This summer I had the pleasure of visiting friends that built their retirement home in Cody Wyoming. One of the days we did an outing taking us over Bear Tooth Summit and found this lovely display of wildflowers right near the 10,497 elevation. I only had my back up camera with me and no...

Blue Lake Basin get's all the press, and it appears that from the Blue Lakes Basin trailhead that 99% of people take it to the Blue Lakes. But just as the trail starts out from the trailhead, there is another trail that veers off to the North and it leads to Blaine Basin. I have walked past that...

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...

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...

On my summer trip this year to SW CO I went up some new 4x4 trails and explored. It was a lot of fun! cc always welcome!

This is Porphyry Basin in Colorado, it's a place I have wanted to get to for a couple of years and it was nice to finally get there. I was able to get to a few new wildflower locations in Colorado this wildflower season in addition to the normal spots like Blue Lakes. The wildflowers were...

In the Eastern Sierra, just north of Bishop I had found these 2 trees side by side. The one stand being green and full of life and the other stand looking dead really caught my eye. Add a field full of flowers and it totally got my attention. All comments are welcome, Jim

Last weekend near Lake Isabelle, it was a very windy morning.

Was out with long lens looking for moose, didn't see any and forced to change the subject.

Hi, its been a bit. Have been on vacation the past week in SW CO. Had lots of fun 4x4, hiking. Photographing my favorite parts of Colorado. Here is a shoot from American Basin, Lake City. CC welcome.

My morning hike was with the plan to shoot this frame, I wasn't quite happy with the wind and plain sky. Well, that's part of nature photography, get up early and try again tomorrow!

I was hiking this morning (early) in Indian Peak wilderness with the plan to shoot wildflowers, cascades and the peak glow together, but it was too windy to shoot wildflowers and waterfalls together. I left there immediately and on the way back shot this no-name cascade as my consolation for the...

Another shot from the same area

Near Yankee Boy Basin, Colorado

It was a great day of shooting at American Basin with Jim Fox!

This is my home away from home. Every year I make it a point to visit Ice Lake! This is looking back down in the basin from the top. CC always welcome!

Here is another view of that new drainage from the busy beavers over by Mt Sneffels in Colorado. All comments are welcome, Jim

That is Mt Sneffels in the background, this is an area that only 3 years ago looked nothing like this. The beavers were busy 2 years ago and dammed up a creek which changed it's flow which then created all of this. It's amazing to see how much the erosion has worked from one year to the next and...

SW Colorado is a beautiful place. This shot started with me up at Molas Pass shooting, but as the sunset colors faded and shifted to some other clouds off to the side, I quickly packed up and raced over to Andrews Lake and got some cool shots with some late sunset colors as twilight started to...

Yankee Boy Basin is wild with wildflowers and an incoming storm. The wet weather made the wild colors even more wild, I had to pull back on the saturation as the greens were just too green and a bit blinding. All comments are welcome, Jim