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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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Early Snow on East Beckwith Mountain
October 02, 2019 - Early Snow on East Beckwith Mountain
Did you ever have one of those days that you just had to get outside and go for...
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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