The Story Behind This Shot
A double exposure of a bull elk walking through Genesee Park, with the gold-lit San Juan peaks near Lizard Head Pass rising as a dark, jagged silhouette inside his body. The Rio Grande Southern Railroad crossed Lizard Head Pass until 1952, and its steep grades helped lead to the Galloping Goose railcars. Real elk graze below these same peaks in summer; this one commuted from the Front Range.
A clean, understated wildlife print with the mountains doing their work in the shadows.
About Lizard Head Pass
Bull Elk - San Juans is a double exposure; its landscape was photographed at Lizard Head Pass, Colorado. A high San Juan pass south of Telluride, watched over by a crumbling volcanic spire.
- Pass elevation: 10,222 ft
- Road: CO 145 (San Juan Skyway), paved
- Distance from Telluride: About 10-12 miles south
Best light: Lizard Head and the Wilsons sit west of the pass, so from the road their east faces are lit head-on in the morning and silhouetted at sunset.
Lizard Head Pass hiking & photo guide → · More photos from Lizard Head Pass →
Bull Elk - San Juans
Part of Wild Peaks, double exposures of Colorado wildlife and mountains →
Hike to this spot: Lizard Head Pass guide →
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