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How the Art Happens "Out of the Shadows"
October 07, 2024 - "Out of the Shadows" Wins a Bronze!
I am humbled, surprised, and very pleased to announce that one of my newest photo...
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How the Art Happens - Fisheye Double Rainbow
August 28, 2024 - Fisheye Double Rainbow
We have reached that awkward time between summer and fall in the high country. It's cooler in...
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How the Art Happens - There's a Hole in the Sky
August 06, 2024 - There's a Hole in the Sky
About nine years ago I was driving back to Crested Butte from Gunnison, Colorado. The sky...
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How the Art happens - New Ideas
July 10, 2024 - Trying New Ideas
For years it's been a challenge for many of my clients to visualize how artwork can look in their ho...
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How the Art Happens - Autumn Gold
January 24, 2024 - Autumn Gold
After watching the aspen leaves change color for more than 30 autumns here around Crested Butte I can say...
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How the Art Happens - Full Blue Supermoon
December 27, 2023 - Full Blue Supermoon 2023
Last August we were blessed with two full moons in the same month. The second one is called...
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How the Art Happens - Fall is Looking Up
October 27, 2023 - Fall is Looking Up
In a tall, golden, aspen forest looking straight up toward the sky is a popular concept. I have ma...
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How the Art Happens - Castle Magic
October 18, 2023 - Castle Magic
The Castles are a commanding visual presence rising out of the West Elk Wilderness Area. They seem even...
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How the Art Happens - A Grove of Light
October 12, 2023 - A Grove of Light
Last week I was asked to photograph a family retreat above a ghost town. The property is a gated pri...
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How the Art Happens - The Calico Forest
September 27, 2023 - The Calico Forest
The Kebler Pass Road leading west from Crested Butte is highly regarded as one of the premiere fall...
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How the Art Happens - Crested Butte Fall Panorama
September 20, 2023 - Crested Butte Fall Panorama
Almost nine years ago, to the day, I photographed the peak of fall colors over Crested Bu...
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How the Art Happens - Ruby Owen and the Dyke
August 29, 2023 - Ruby, Owen, and the Dyke
This is one of Colorado's most iconic fall color photographs. That's probably why it's never...
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How the Art Happens - Shiprock Summer Sunrise
August 18, 2023 - Shiprock Summer Sunrise
I have wanted to photograph this vantage point for a few years. A few weeks ago I got the cha...
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How the Art Happens - Summer on Elk Avenue
August 09, 2023 - Summer On Elk Avenue
I have wanted to make this photograph for years before finally making myself capture it in June.
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How the Art Happens - Spring at Whiterock Mountain
June 01, 2023 - Spring at Whiterock Mountain
Springtime high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains brings a season filled with contrasts. O...
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How the Art Happens - Sunset Cumulus Panorama
May 24, 2023 - Sunset Cumulus Panorama
Every spring and every fall I head back to Oklahoma to visit family and friends. The trips ar...
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How the Art Happens - Lilly and Beauty
April 19, 2023 - Lilly and Beauty
One of the first signs of "Spring" here in the high country is the appearance of Glacier Lilies and...
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How the Art Happens - The Three Amigas
April 13, 2023 - The Three Amigas
The Pasque Flower or Prairie Crocus is usually the first flower to bloom in spring around here. In o...
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How the Art Happens - The Survivor
April 05, 2023 - The Survivor
I'm always surprised every spring when I see that this cabin has survived. I have to tip my hat to the p...
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How the Art Hapens - UCO Campus from the Air
March 31, 2023 - UCO Campus From the Air
Old North Tower is the iconic landmark at the historic entrance to the University of Central...
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How the Art Happens - Crested Butte Mountain Summer
March 23, 2023 - Crested Butte Mountain Summer
Crested Butte just broke 300" of snowfall for the season. We're not done yet either. Th...
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How the Art Happens - A Ghost of Summer
March 15, 2023 - A Ghost of Summer
It was late October and I was enjoying breakfast at the counter of Paradise Cafe in downtown Creste...
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How the Art Happens - Lazy F Bar Ranch Under Snow
March 09, 2023 - Lazy F Bar Ranch Under Snow
With over a foot of snow in the forecast for the weekend, I thought I would share a winte...
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How the Art Happens - Denali From the Train
March 01, 2023 - Denali From the Train
It's hard to believe that it was nearly 19 years ago that I got to join my family on a trip to...
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How the Art Happens - Belleview Mountain Panorama
February 23, 2023 - Belleview Mountain Panorama
Ansel Adams is quoted as saying "A good photograph is largely about where you stand". Thi...
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How the Art Happens - Fire in the Grove
February 15, 2023 - Fire in the Grove
It seems every autumn brings unique compositions for fall-color photos. All I have to do is keep my...
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How the Art Happens - Springlight
February 07, 2023 - Springlight
Every spring when the aspen trees transition from their bare winter branches to lush green foliage we get...
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How The Art Happens - The Last of the Winter Bones
May 28, 2022 - The Last of the Winter Bones
It's finally starting to feel like spring again. Afternoon winds are melting the snow an...
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How the Art Happens - Kaleidoscope Gulch
October 26, 2021 - Kaleidoscope Gulch
Some mornings I look out the window and wonder if it's going to be worth getting out of bed. It wa...
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How the Art Happens - Autumn Glory
October 21, 2021 - Autumn Glory
Fall is my very favorite time of year. It's usually colorful, warm, and not as busy as the summer season...
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How the Art Happens - Autumn Reds
September 26, 2021 - How the Art Happens - Autumn Reds
Every year about this time there are a few patches of aspen leaves that turn anywhe...
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How the Art Happens - Sunset at the Dike
May 19, 2021 - Sunset at the Dike
The West Elk Loop scenic drive offers lots of opportunities for great landscape photos. This overloo...
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How the Art Happens - Making Mistakes
April 28, 2021 - Making Mistakes
It seems like every spring we get a couple of days that remind us of what's to come temperature-wise.
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How the Art Happens - Cathedral
April 07, 2021 - Cathedral
Springtime brings green grass and leaves along with flowers to most parts of our country. Life at 9,000 feet...
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How the Art Happens - Don't Call Me Skunk Cabbage
March 31, 2021 - Don't Call me Skunk Cabbage
There's a plant in the high country that grows every spring in damp areas. It has huge, b...
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How the Art Happens - 4 Crosses - San Geronimo Church
January 06, 2021 - Four Crosses - San Geronimo Church
I miss being able to travel. I love to travel. Especially in the southwest United St...
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How the Art Happens - Warm Wishes
December 24, 2020 - Warm Wishes
This time of year I usually spend a few evenings and early mornings cruising the streets of Crested Butte...
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How the Art Happens - Elk Avenue Snow
December 02, 2020 - Elk Avenue Snow
The winter of 2007-2008 brought record amounts of snow to the mountains of Colorado. In December, usual...
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How the Art Happens - What is it About Black and White
November 14, 2020 - What is it About Black and White?
For many of the early decades of photography creating images in color was not an op...
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How the Art Happens - Crystal Mill Colors
October 14, 2020 - Crystal Mill Colors
A few years ago after most of the leaves had fallen from the trees near my home I decided to make...
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How the Art Happens - Autumn Impressions
October 07, 2020 - Autumn Impressions
I have always enjoyed the art created by the impressionist painters. I recently learned that many...
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How the Art Happens - Aspenshine
September 09, 2020 - Aspenshine
I am fortunate to live in an area favored by many of the world's best artists for capturing fall foliage....
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How the Art Happens - Colorful Castles
September 02, 2020 - Colorful Castles
As summertime starts to wane in the higher elevations of Colorado, we all are beginning to wonder wh...
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How the Art Happens - Snow Tango 2
August 27, 2020 - Snow Tango Part 2
This morning at breakfast one of the other "regulars" at Paradise Cafe mentioned that part of this...
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How the Art Happens - East River Magic
August 17, 2020 - East River Magic
by Dusty Demerson
Some scenes just capture your soul. The meanders of the East River near my home i...
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How the Art Happens - Making Memories
August 01, 2020 - Ruby Range Reflections
by Dusty Demerson
I got a new client this week. A friend recommended that he check out my web...
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Top 10 Tips for Great Wildflower Photography From the Wildflower Capital of Colorado
July 21, 2020 - The Top 10 Tips for Great Wildflower Photos from the Wildflower Capital of Colorado
Crested Butte has been celebrated...
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How the Art Happens - Crested Butte Cottonwood Colors
June 24, 2020 - Crested Butte Cottonwood Colors
Most of my best photographs for the past 10 years or so have been somewhat planned. S...
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How the Art Happens - Spring Whispers
June 03, 2020 - Spring Whispers
As the cold, bare, signs of winter give way to spring, the landscape slowly changes flavors to margar...
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How the Art Happens - Aspen Greening
May 27, 2020 - Aspen Greening
It's that time again. Finally! This spring has, seemingly, lasted forever and has only recently result...
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How the Art Happens - Clearing Storm, Artist Point, Monument Valley, Arizona
May 13, 2020 - Clearing Storm, Artist Point, Monument Valley, Arizona
Monument Valley is one of the most overwhelming and amazing la...
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How the Art Happens - Half Dome Sunset
April 29, 2020 - Half Dome Sunset
Many years ago, I found myself in Yosemite National Park in early November. I had spent a few days d...
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How the Art Happens - Crested Butte Mountain Alpenglow
April 23, 2020 - Crested Butte Mountain Alpenglow
Sometimes my photos are just waiting by the side of the road, right around a turn. O...
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How the Art Happens - San Francisco de Asis Mission Church
April 15, 2020 - San Francisco de Asis Mission Church
I love the architecture and materials used to create the Spanish missions in New...
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How the Art Happens - Inside Tony's
April 08, 2020 - Inside Tony's
When I first moved to Crested Butte, Colorado, I lived in the middle of downtown above the bakery. I wa...
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How the Art Happens - Priorities
March 30, 2020 - Priorities
The long-gone mining days of Crested Butte have left their marks on the architecture and decor of this col...
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How the Art Happens - Paradise Divide Winter Panorama
March 18, 2020 - Paradise Divide Winter Panorama
I sure wish I was better at this new "social distancing" thing we're supposed to be p...
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How the Art Happens - Mystical Canyon Light
March 11, 2020 - Mystical Canyon Light
Several years ago I decided I needed to visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in search of th...
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How the Art Happens - Mount Crested Butte Winter Panorama
February 19, 2020 - Mount Crested Butte Winter Panorama
Sometime back in the early 1970's someone climbed to the top of Sunlight Ridge ju...
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How the Art Happens - That's Why They Call Her The Red Lady
February 12, 2020 - That's Why They Call Her The Red Lady
Some days I just can't catch a break. A bunch of years ago, after a long day at...
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How the Art Happens - Winter Blues
February 05, 2020 - Winter Blues
It's been cold in Crested Butte this winter. I know that's exactly what we should expect, living at 9,00...
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How the Art Happens - The Power of Music
January 29, 2020 - The Power of Music
The influence of one artform on other forms of art is undisputed. All the artists I know and work...
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How the Art Happens - Red Lady Glow
January 15, 2020 - Red Lady Glow
Autumn is beautiful up here in the mountains of western Colorado. The aspen groves around Crested Butte...
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How the Art Happens - Paradise by Moonlight
January 08, 2020 - Paradise by Moonlight
It's such a dramatic and peaceful scene when you witness it for the first time. Really, every tim...
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How the Art Happens - White Forest
December 11, 2019 - White Forest
" White Forest " is one of those photographs I saw in my mind a long time before I found it in nature. I...
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How the Art Happens - Big Moon Rising
December 04, 2019 - Big Moon Rising
Ten years ago I did a little work for one of the local newspapers, The Crested Butte Weekly. As winte...
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How the Art Happens - Storm in the Pines
November 20, 2019 - Storm in the Pines
I love stormy weather. I always have. I probably always will. Back in my newspaper days, living in...
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How the Art Happens - East River Red
November 13, 2019 - East River Red
This small but beautiful river meanders through a valley just a few miles from my home. I spend lots o...
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How the Art Happens - Autumn Frosting
November 06, 2019 - Autumn Frosting
The first heavy frost of autumn usually catches us off-guard. The fact that there was enough moisture...
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How the Art Happens - The Calico Forest
October 30, 2019 - The Calico Forest
Fall is my favorite season. I'm especially drawn to the warm hues and warm temperatures that usuall...
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How the Art Happens - The Gold Spot
October 16, 2019 - The Gold Spot
Our fall color is over for this season. It was late in arriving and didn't seem to last very long this...
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How the Art Happens - At the Edge of Autumn
October 09, 2019 - At the Edge of Autumn
Most of us photographers like to make our photos on the edges. Sunset and sunrise are the edges...
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How the Art Happens - Sunset at the Hereford Corral
September 25, 2019 - Sunset at the Hereford Corral
Many years ago, when I was in college in Oklahoma, I had a roommate from the panhandle...
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How the Art Happens - Aspen Bisque
September 18, 2019 - Aspen Bisque
About a year ago a friend from New York City was in town and we went out to make some pictures of our fa...
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How the Art Happens - Into the Forest
August 28, 2019 - Into the Forest
"Into the Forest" sold this week as a 20" x 48" print on canvas and gallery-wrapped around the edge...
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How the Art Happens - Fire on the Mountain
August 14, 2019 - Fire on the Mountain
I hear that our planet is warming up. From personal observation, living up in the Colorado Rocky...
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How the Art Happens - Watermelons
August 07, 2019 - Watermelons
I used to travel through the panhandle of Texas several times a year to visit family in southern Oklahoma...
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How the Art Happens - Whetstone Mists
August 03, 2019 - Whetstone Mists
Whetstone Mountain is, in my opinion, the most photogenic mountain in the Crested Butte area. I say t...
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How the Art Happens - Daybreak Crested Butte
July 24, 2019 - Daybreak - Crested Butte, Colorado
Crested Butte, Colorado got its start in the late 1800s as a mining town. Like man...
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How the Art Happens - Busy Corner
June 27, 2019 - Busy Corner
I moved to Colorado from southern Oklahoma. Until recently, I still had family living in Duncan, Oklahoma a...
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How the Art Happens . Christmas in Autumn
June 19, 2019 - Christmas in Autumn
Contrasts have become a theme in my photography. Whether it's a shadow on white snow, a warm color...
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How the Art Happens - Silverton, Colorado
June 12, 2019 - Silverton, Colorado
Silverton, Colorado is a former mining town located high in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Man...
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Changing Perspective - Using Drones for Landscape Photography
January 24, 2018 - About 5 years ago I purchased my first quadcopter with the idea of offering a new perspective of homes and properties fo...
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Using Adobe Photoshop to Achieve a Hand-Tinted Effect
March 20, 2014 - Colorful homes and buildings of Crested Butte, Colorado below the towering peaks of Paradise Divide.
Technology makes...
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Creating Emotional Photographs
February 09, 2014 - The landmark barn between Gunnison and Crested Butte, Colorado during a snow storm.
Breaking the Rules to Create Phot...
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Photographing Transitional Seasons
November 11, 2013 - by Dusty Demerson, photographer
I love photographing fall colors. It’s my favorite time of year. The vibrancy of yellow...
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Why Use a Tripod
November 04, 2013 - Most of my photography students hate using a tripod. I hated them too, when I was learning photography. Over time, I’ve...
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Waiting for the Light
October 21, 2013 - I have no idea how many times I’ve been really excited about photographing a fabulous landscape to only be unhappy once...
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Half Dome From the Other Side
August 10, 2013 - On Playing Nice and Getting Lucky Sunset light provides a golden glow from snow and Ice on Half Dome in Yosemite Nationa...
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Sun or Shade – Which is best to photograph wildflowers?
July 15, 2013 - If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. Robert Capa
After a week of teaching wildflower photo...
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It’s Almost Wildflower Season Again in Crested Butte
June 06, 2013 - Bright blue lupine bloom below snow-covered Gothic Mountain.
OK! A little truth in advertising might be in order for th...
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The Denver Skyline, A Study in Contrasts
June 06, 2013 - A Spring Evening in Downtown Denver
I’m not really known as an architectural photographer. In fact, I spend a lot of ti...
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Whetstone Mists, or How Less is More
June 06, 2013 - Spring Snow on Whetstone Mountain and Cold Spring Ranch.
Most of us up here in the Colorado high country are about read...
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Semi-Random Photo Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon
June 06, 2013 - A Hand-Shaped Cloud Catches Half a Moon.
Sometimes stuff just happens! You’re chatting in the driveway with your neighb...
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I’m Trying to be an Impressionist Photographer
June 06, 2013 - Spring #1
I love the work of the Impressionists. Their ability to reduce a scene to line, form, color and texture is am...
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Help! I need a title again
June 06, 2013 - Tire Swing with Snow
Up here in the high country we can get snow 12 months of the year. Granted, from June to September...
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Mother Nature is a Fickle Woman
June 06, 2013 - Rainbow and Lightning
Mother nature can be a fickle woman. (I hope she’s not listening) She doesn’t always give us what...
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A Tale of Two Photographs
June 06, 2013 - Columbine 2
Columbine 1
It’s going to be a few months before we start seeing flowers up here again but with forecast...
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McClure Pass Spring Aspen Panorama
June 06, 2013 - McClure Pass Spring Aspen Grove
This past week’s weather has me thinking about spring. I know it officially begins toda...
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The Art of Patience and Paying Attention
June 06, 2013 - Intense sunrise color over Crested Butte Mountain, Colorado
The title of this post could have just as easily been “The...
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A Weather Geek tries to Photograph a Snowstorm
June 06, 2013 - Blowing snow creates ghostly trees in a snowstorm.
I love weather. It’s no secret that thunderstorms, snowstorms, lig...
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“Lone Pine” the Theory of Contrast
June 06, 2013 - A small pine tree in a forest of aspens.
Contrast seems to be a recurring theme in my photography. I think it’s a theme...
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Death Valley Dunes
June 06, 2013 - A fierce wind whips sand dunes into shape.
A few years ago California’s Death Valley National Park received lots of rar...
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A Colorado Aspen Forest in Black and White “White Forest”
June 06, 2013 - Black and White Aspen Forest If you’ve ever hiked through a dense forest you may know the feeling of seeing endless tree...
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I Find Inspiration in the Work of Other Photographers
June 06, 2013 - Roofscape from Silverton, Colorado
I’m not much of an architectural photographer. I usually refer my long-time friend B...
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“Fearless”
June 06, 2013 - Small pine tree seemingly threatened by looming shadows of larger trees
Way back in the winter of 2004 I got it into my...
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Snowstorm Panorama from Taylor Canyon, Colorado
June 06, 2013 - Winter in Taylor Canyon
It’s no secret that I like storms. Snowstorms are no exception. But when it’s dumping outside w...
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The Peaks of Paradise Divide Tower over Crested Butte, Colorado
June 06, 2013 - Winter brings its challenges to those of us who live at altitude. First, there’s snow which is our only form of precipit...
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A Huge Snow Storm Makes for some Beautiful Photographs
June 06, 2013 - Peace in the Trees
If you’ve been watching the news lately or following any Crested Butte folks on Facebook you would k...
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Colorado Winter Pasture with Snow
June 06, 2013 - Bleak winter pasture with odd composition
Sorry this post is so late this week. It’s been one of those “uninspired” day...
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Winter Blues
June 06, 2013 - Fresh snow and sun create abstract shadows
Winter photography can be truly challenging with cold temperatures, difficul...
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Autumn Winds
June 06, 2013 - For years I’ve been experimenting with “shooting the breeze”. You know, capturing the effects of wind on a two dimension...
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A Winter Melody
June 06, 2013 - Winter Melody
Once again it’s snowing in the Crested Butte high country and scenes like this will be popping up in the...
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Wee Three Bears
June 06, 2013 - Three Grizzly Bear Cubs in Alaska I’m fortunate enough to live in rural Colorado, a place teeming with wildlife. I would...
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Sunset Solitude
June 06, 2013 - Muted autumn colors capture beautiful sunset light. As autumn’s colors start to fade and those of us who live in the “hi...
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Red Sunrise on the East River (Colorado)
June 06, 2013 - Autumn Clouds Reflect Red in the East River at Sunrise With our autumn colors now mostly a drab brown (with patches of w...
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Sunday Morning
June 06, 2013 - Untracked Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Colorado’s main street. Although it probably won’t look exactly like this tomorrow...
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Sometimes Just Showing Up is Enough
June 06, 2013 - The Hand of God Paul Stookey, the “Paul” of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, has commented about some of his song writing tale...
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Asymmetrical Convergence
June 06, 2013 - Makes you kind of dizzy huh?
Looking up through a wide angle lens into an Aspen forest can make you dizzy. But you shou...
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The Road Less Traveled
June 06, 2013 - Snow Covered Beckwith Mountains in Western Colorado (click for a larger view)
This week’s photograph, The Road Less T...
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