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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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How the Art Happens - Fearless
June 05, 2019 - Fearless
Every winter our search and rescue organization hosts the best films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Th...
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How the Art Happens - Reflecting on West Beckwith
May 29, 2019 - Reflecting on West Beckwith Mountain
About twelve years ago I started teaching photography workshops and leading photo...
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How the Art Happens - The Hand of God
May 22, 2019 - The Hand of God
I moved from Oklahoma to Colorado over 30 years ago. Chasing amazing skies was a frequent occupation wh...
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How the Art Happens - East River Green
May 15, 2019 - East River Green
The East River drains snowmelt from the Raggeds and Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness areas northwest...
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How the Art Happens - Snow Tango
May 08, 2019 - Snow Tango
Midway between Crested Butte and Gunnison, Colorado, like towers in the middle of the pasture, there are the...
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How the Art Happens - On the Path to Solitude
May 01, 2019 - On the Path to Solitude
I love to drive and explore places I've never seen or revisit places I've been during different...
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How the Art Happens - There's a Delicate Nature to Spring
April 24, 2019 - There's a Delicate Nature to Spring
I love aspen trees. They grow straight and tall and they do it quickly. They also c...
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How the Art Happens - Shelter From the Storm
April 17, 2019 - Shelter From the Storm
I loved this old barn. I drove past it several times each week, in every season, at every time o...
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How the Art Happens - Death Valley Dunes
April 10, 2019 - Death Valley Dunes
It seems our weather works in cycles. This winter and spring have been very wet on our western coast...
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How the Art Happens - A Celebration of the Ancients
April 03, 2019 - A Celebration of the Ancients
Mesa Verde National Park is truly one of the gems of the National Park system in the US....
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How the Art Happens - Winter Melody
March 27, 2019 - Winter Melody
I pass by this grove of aspen trees several times each day. When I look at them from this angle, directly...
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How the Art Happens - The Last of the Winter Bones
March 21, 2019 - The Last of the Winter Bones
For me, spring is the most difficult season to create images. I live in a small town 9,4...
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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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Preparing Photos for Social Media
October 16, 2017 - Social media like Facebook can be a great and free marketing tool for our art. Lots of photographers post images every d...
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How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse
August 07, 2017 - Way back in May of 2012 we had a solar eclipse visible in the southern part of the USA. Since successful viewing of an e...
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The Cameras that Got Me to Where I Am Today Part 1
June 24, 2017 - Most of us that have been making pictures for any length of time have used a wide variety of camera equipment. Especiall...
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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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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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Just Because Your Art is More Difficult to Make Doesn’t Mean It’s Better
June 06, 2013 - Fire In The Grove
Over the course of an average day I get to interact with a fair number of people. I go out for breakf...
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When to Use HDR Photo Processing Technique
June 06, 2013 - Old mining truck in Colorado
In the past couple of years photographers have seen an overwhelming number of new digital...
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New Work for The Crested Butte Festival of the Arts
June 06, 2013 - Fall Fantasy Panorama
I must apologize for being absent for the past month. July and August are the only times of the y...
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Crested Butte Photo Workshops Announce Colorado Fall Colors Workshop for 2011
June 06, 2013 - Intense Fall Colors Near Kebler Pass, Colorado
J. C. Leacock and I are once again pleased to offer our popular Colorado...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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