The Story Behind This Shot

Morning light sweeping across the colorful slopes of the San Juan Mountains near Lizard Head Pass, Colorado, with rust-red, gold and green rock bands below a ridge of jagged peaks. A small herd of elk crosses the shadowed slope at lower left, and yellow wildflowers dot the foreground. Lizard Head Pass sits on the San Juan Skyway between Telluride and Rico, and the high basins around it are some of the most colorful terrain in the state. A rich, painterly mountain print with surprises in the details.