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Alpenglow on the Castles — Ohio Pass, Colorado. Pink alpenglow lighting the Castles and the red rock ridge above a valley of gold and orange aspens, with a…

Alpenglow on the Castles

Ohio Pass, Colorado

Alpenglow on the Bells — Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado. First light catching the summits of the Maroon Bells in Aspen, Colorado, with the peaks glowing…

Alpenglow on the Bells

Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado

Longs Peak From St. Vrain — St Vrain State Park, Colorado. Longs Peak and Mount Meeker holding their snow on the horizon while the cottonwoods along the…

Longs Peak From St. Vrain

St Vrain State Park, Colorado

Red Sky Over the Spires — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The sky going full crimson and violet above the great spires at Garden of the…

Red Sky Over the Spires

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Empty Seats, Full Sky — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. Red Rocks Amphitheatre completely empty at sunrise, the rows running down toward the stage while a bank of…

Empty Seats, Full Sky

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

The Sky Doubles Down — City Park, Denver. A sunset over City Park so saturated that the lake gives the entire thing back without losing a single shade of it.

The Sky Doubles Down

City Park, Denver

Cloud Caught on Notchtop — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A lenticular cloud snagged on the summit of Notchtop Mountain at sunrise while the lake…

Cloud Caught on Notchtop

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

First Fire on the Diamond — Chasm Lake, Colorado. First light hitting the Diamond on Longs Peak and turning the whole east face copper while the talus and…

First Fire on the Diamond

Chasm Lake, Colorado

Aspens, Smeared — Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado. A grove of aspens at peak color turned into pure vertical streaks by moving the camera through the exposure.

Aspens, Smeared

Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado

Front Row, Gold Seats — Lake Dillon, Colorado. A stand of turning aspens holding the front row above Lake Dillon while the sunrise runs pink and gold across…

Front Row, Gold Seats

Lake Dillon, Colorado

The Island From Above — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Lake Dillon from the air at sunrise, the wooded island sitting off the point while gold light runs down the…

The Island From Above

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Violet Over the Sharkstooth — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The spires above Sky Pond catching first light while the sky behind them runs violet…

Violet Over the Sharkstooth

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Full Curl, Full Stare — Waterton Canyon, Colorado. A bighorn ram in Waterton Canyon facing the lens dead on, full curl horns framing a face that has clearly…

Full Curl, Full Stare

Waterton Canyon, Colorado

Mule's Ears to the Ridgeline — Crested Butte, Colorado. A hillside outside Crested Butte buried under mule's ears in full bloom, yellow running unbroken…

Mule's Ears to the Ridgeline

Crested Butte, Colorado

Balsamroot Below the Gore — Silverthorne, Colorado. Arrowleaf balsamroot and lupine covering a hillside above Silverthorne while the Gore Range catches pink…

Balsamroot Below the Gore

Silverthorne, Colorado

Morning Fire Over Glacier Gorge — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Sunrise cloud burning orange above Glacier Gorge while Mills Lake sits frozen and…

Morning Fire Over Glacier Gorge

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Two Bison and a Skyline — Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City. Two bison grazing in silhouette against a sky gone completely…

Two Bison and a Skyline

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City

Kenosha Goes Orange — Kenosha Pass, Colorado. A hillside at Kenosha Pass running the full range from green through gold to deep orange, with spruce threaded…

Kenosha Goes Orange

Kenosha Pass, Colorado

The Road Through the Gold — Kenosha Pass, Colorado. A dirt road cutting a pale line straight through a solid canopy of turning aspens, shot from directly above.

The Road Through the Gold

Kenosha Pass, Colorado

Pillars of Pink — Sterling, Colorado. Vertical pillars of magenta and green aurora standing over the eastern Colorado plains, bright enough to read the…

Pillars of Pink

Sterling, Colorado

The Whole Sky Went Magenta — Sterling, Colorado. Aurora filling the frame edge to edge over Sterling, magenta on top, green underneath, and a thin dark band…

The Whole Sky Went Magenta

Sterling, Colorado

The Whole Shelf Pouring — Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Water pouring off the full length of the travertine shelf at Hanging Lake, feeding a pool…

The Whole Shelf Pouring

Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

Snow on the Red Rock — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Fresh snow tucked into the scrub below the great red fins at Garden of the Gods while…

Snow on the Red Rock

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Boathouse at Last Light — City Park, Denver. The City Park boathouse glowing across a still Ferril Lake with the Denver skyline going pink and gold…

The Boathouse at Last Light

City Park, Denver

A Tiger in the Colorado Grass — Keenesburg, Colorado. A tiger lying in dry winter grass in Keenesburg, on the eastern plains, which is not a sentence anyone…

A Tiger in the Colorado Grass

Keenesburg, Colorado

Four Sentries, One Burrow — Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City. Four prairie dogs stacked up at the mouth of a burrow in fresh…

Four Sentries, One Burrow

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City

The Herd in the Whiteout — Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City. The Rocky Mountain Arsenal bison herd strung out across a…

The Herd in the Whiteout

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City

Snow on Every Row — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. Snow sitting on every bench at Red Rocks Amphitheatre after a storm, the rows running up out of frame and the…

Snow on Every Row

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

Gold Swirling in the Pool — Longmont, Colorado. Fallen leaves caught in a slow eddy below a small waterfall near Longmont, drawn into a gold spiral by a…

Gold Swirling in the Pool

Longmont, Colorado

Gold Creek, Abyss Lake Trail — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. The Abyss Lake Trail at peak fall color, where a shallow creek threads through frost-bitten…

Gold Creek, Abyss Lake Trail

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Maroon Bells Mirror — Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado. A windless sunrise at Maroon Creek Lake below the Maroon Bells, where the bowl above holds so still…

Maroon Bells Mirror

Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado

Cotton Candy Over the Bells — Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado. The most photographed mountains in North America earning it again, with pink and lavender cloud…

Cotton Candy Over the Bells

Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado

Crystal Mill at First Light — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The Crystal Mill catching sunrise above the Crystal River, its timber frame braced on rock…

Crystal Mill at First Light

Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado

Fire Over the Crystal Mill — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The sky above the Crystal Mill going full ember at sunrise, orange cloud pouring over the…

Fire Over the Crystal Mill

Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado

The Gore Range Doubled — Willow Lakes Trail. The rugged spine of the Gore Range reflected in a dead calm alpine lake at sunrise, snowfields still holding in…

The Gore Range Doubled

Willow Lakes Trail

Moonlight on Arapaho Pass — Arapaho Pass. A full moon hanging over the pines on the way up Arapaho Pass in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, bright enough to…

Moonlight on Arapaho Pass

Pink Light on the Flatirons — Boulder, Colorado. First light hitting the Flatirons above Boulder, Colorado after a fresh snow, the sandstone slabs going…

Pink Light on the Flatirons

Boulder, Colorado

Sloan's Lake on Fire — Sloan's Lake, Denver. The entire sky caught fire over Sloan's Lake in Denver and the water threw every bit of it right back.

Sloan's Lake on Fire

Sloan's Lake, Denver

Dream Lake Goes to Glass — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A long exposure flattening Dream Lake to pure glass while first light works its way…

Dream Lake Goes to Glass

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Lone Eagle Doubled — Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. Lone Eagle Peak doubled in a dead calm Mirror Lake at first light in the Indian Peaks Wilderness,…

Lone Eagle Doubled

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

The Famous Logs, The Famous Peak — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The famous logs, the famous peak, and a sunrise doing its part at Dream Lake in…

The Famous Logs, The Famous Peak

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

First Light on the Sharkstooth — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. First light hitting the Sharkstooth above Sky Pond in Rocky Mountain National Park,…

First Light on the Sharkstooth

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Frozen Surf — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Wind carving the snow on The Loch into what looks exactly like frozen surf, blue drifts curling across…

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Even Empty It Feels Loud — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. Cirrus streaming over the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, the seats empty and…

Even Empty It Feels Loud

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

Pawnee Dark — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. The Milky Way hanging over the Pawnee Buttes with nothing man-made visible in any direction.

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Behind the Pine — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. A young mule deer keeping a pine branch between us in the fresh snow at Garden of the…

Behind the Pine

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Bison in Cotton Candy Light — Genesee. A bull bison working a winter meadow while the sky went pastel pink and blue behind him, another of the herd…

Bison in Cotton Candy Light

Down the Stanley Staircase — Estes Park, Colorado. Looking straight down the grand staircase at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, the whole spiral…

Down the Stanley Staircase

Estes Park, Colorado

The Between-Seasons Look — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A creek cutting through a tangle of red willows with fresh snow on the banks and green spruce up the…

The Between-Seasons Look

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Dillon From Above — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Lake Dillon from the air at sunset, with cotton candy cloud stretched over the Gore Range and the drought-exposed…

Dillon From Above

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Every Hairpin Earns the View — Clear creek canyon. A road stitching its way up through a fresh coat of snow in the Colorado foothills, switchback after…

Every Hairpin Earns the View

Clear creek canyon

One Tree Still Holding Gold — Kenosha Pass, Colorado. A single aspen still carrying its gold out on the edge of South Park, standing among bare snags with…

One Tree Still Holding Gold

Kenosha Pass, Colorado

She Knew I Was There — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. A mule deer doe working the scrub oak below the red fins of Garden of the Gods in…

She Knew I Was There

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Up Toward the Landing — Estes Park, Colorado. Looking up the Stanley Hotel staircase toward the arched window and chandelier, red carpet climbing into warm…

Up Toward the Landing

Estes Park, Colorado

A Morning Show at Red Rocks — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. Sunrise at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, with pink and violet clouds streaking…

A Morning Show at Red Rocks

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

A Hillside Turned Loose — Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado. An entire mountainside in the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness gone gold, with dark spruce framing…

A Hillside Turned Loose

Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado

Fire on the Mountain — Marble, Colorado. A calm morning near Marble, Colorado that turned without warning, the whole sky catching fire above a rock butte at…

Fire on the Mountain

Marble, Colorado

The Valley the Scientists Never Left — Gothic, Colorado. A wildflower meadow going full tilt below the peaks outside Gothic, Colorado, with the Elk…

The Valley the Scientists Never Left

Gothic, Colorado

Notchtop Over Blue Ice — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Notchtop Mountain catching morning sun above a lake locked in blue ice in Rocky Mountain…

Notchtop Over Blue Ice

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Stars Twenty Minutes Out — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. The last pink cloud of the day drifting over snow-loaded pines with the blue of night already…

Stars Twenty Minutes Out

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Soft Pink Haze on the Castles — Ohio Pass, Colorado. A gentler take on the same morning at the Castles overlook on Ohio Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado,…

Soft Pink Haze on the Castles

Ohio Pass, Colorado

Changing Channels — Marble, Colorado. A whole hillside mid-turn, gold crowns sitting over bare gray trunks with dark spruce mixed through.

Changing Channels

Marble, Colorado

The Road Into the Light — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. Morning fog hanging thick in the pines while the sun tries to punch through, turning the whole forest…

The Road Into the Light

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

Gold Above Reservoir Blue — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Gold aspens stacked above that unmistakable reservoir blue at Lake Dillon in Summit County, Colorado,…

Gold Above Reservoir Blue

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Golden Hour on Clear Creek — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Golden hour on Clear Creek in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, with cottonwoods and willows glowing over the water…

Golden Hour on Clear Creek

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Clouds in a Hurry — Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado. A long exposure at Maroon Lake in Aspen, Colorado that turns a busy blue sky into soft streaks of cloud…

Clouds in a Hurry

Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado

Standing on the Yellow Line — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. Dead center on the centerline with a wall of fog swallowing the road ahead and tall pines lining…

Standing on the Yellow Line

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

Brown Grass, Gray Wall — Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado. A meadow of dry autumn grass running up to a broken gray rock face in the Mount Blue Sky…

Brown Grass, Gray Wall

Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado

One Drop at a Time — Clear creek canyon. Meltwater letting go of a lichen-covered rock edge one drop at a time, caught mid-fall against a wash of blue.

One Drop at a Time

Clear creek canyon

Blossoms of Light — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. Blossoms of Light turning the Denver Botanic Gardens fully electric, with violet light-rain hanging over…

Blossoms of Light

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Alpenglow Like a Fuse — Loveland Pass, Colorado. Alpenglow running the full length of a snow-loaded ridge like a lit fuse while the valleys below stay dark…

Alpenglow Like a Fuse

Loveland Pass, Colorado

The Eagle Turns Its Back — Barr Lake State Park, Colorado. A bald eagle perched on a bare branch at Barr Lake, shoulders hunched and turned away, every…

The Eagle Turns Its Back

Barr Lake State Park, Colorado

All Ears — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Those ears heard me coming from fifty yards out.

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Whoever Hikes the Lights Up — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A string of colored bulbs wrapped around a tree trunk at the edge of a frozen Dream…

Whoever Hikes the Lights Up

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A Path Paved in Gold — Horse Ranch Park, Colorado. A narrow track winding through a yellow-green aspen forest at Horse Ranch Park near Crested Butte,…

A Path Paved in Gold

Horse Ranch Park, Colorado

One Cloud Over Creation Rock — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. A single towering pink cloud parked over Creation Rock at Red Rocks while the seats below wait…

One Cloud Over Creation Rock

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

Frost on Everything the Sun Missed — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. Frost hanging on every willow the sun has not reached yet while the aspens up the hill get…

Frost on Everything the Sun Missed

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Evening Ember — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. The sky going full ember over the Colorado high country, with the last light picking out a hillside far…

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Mining Towns Know How to Decorate — Idaho Springs, Colorado. An old mine portal in Idaho Springs, Colorado wearing its full holiday best, ore cart loaded…

Mining Towns Know How to Decorate

Idaho Springs, Colorado

Five Stages of September — Old Dillon Dam Road. Aspen leaves laid out on lichen-covered granite, running green to yellow to orange to red to spent brown.

Five Stages of September

Old Dillon Dam Road

The First Hour Turns It Up — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Low sun stretching long shadows across the sandstone fins at Garden of the Gods…

The First Hour Turns It Up

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Driftwood at The Loch — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Driftwood and calm water at The Loch in Rocky Mountain National Park with the clouds above…

Driftwood at The Loch

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Anthurium Against the Fronds — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. A single scarlet anthurium holding its shape against a wall of streaked green palm, the waxy…

Anthurium Against the Fronds

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Sunburst Over the Beaver Pond — Kenosha Pass, Colorado. The sun cracking over the ridge above a beaver pond at Kenosha Pass, gold grass and willows glowing…

Sunburst Over the Beaver Pond

Kenosha Pass, Colorado

Three Hundred Million Years in One Frame — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The sandstone spires at Garden of the Gods soaking up early light…

Three Hundred Million Years in One Frame

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Runoff Season — Almont co. Runoff turning a quiet forest creek into a conveyor belt, willows and aspens leaning in from both banks under overcast light.

Emerald Pool, Many Falls — Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. A long exposure across Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, with the falls pouring…

Emerald Pool, Many Falls

Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

Peak Gold — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. An aspen grove at absolute peak color, a bare gray trunk in the foreground standing against a solid wall of yellow…

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

White Flowers, Loud Water — Willow Lakes Trail. A cascade tumbling through dark boulders on the Willow Lakes Trail, framed by a bank of white summer…

White Flowers, Loud Water

Willow Lakes Trail

Estes Park Burning Down — Estes Park, Colorado. Sunset lighting up a deck of cloud over the snow-covered peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park, seen across…

Estes Park Burning Down

Estes Park, Colorado

Your Neck Files a Complaint — Georgetown, Colorado. Tall aspens throwing gold sixty feet over the trail, white trunks running straight up out of the frame…

Your Neck Files a Complaint

Georgetown, Colorado

Divide in Winter Gold — Loveland Pass, Colorado. Sunrise sliding across a wind-scoured ridge on the Continental Divide at Loveland Pass, Colorado, snow…

Divide in Winter Gold

Loveland Pass, Colorado

Ferril Lake Holds the Gold — City Park, Denver. The full width of the Denver skyline reflected across a windless Ferril Lake, the boathouse glowing on the…

Ferril Lake Holds the Gold

City Park, Denver

Creek Under the Turning Aspens — Pinecliffe, Colorado. A creek running clear over pale cobbles near Pinecliffe with aspens going gold on both banks and dark…

Creek Under the Turning Aspens

Pinecliffe, Colorado

Frost That Did Not Survive the Hour — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. First sun sliding down a hillside of turned aspens while frost still holds in the shaded…

Frost That Did Not Survive the Hour

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Sunrise Fills the Cirque — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Sunrise filling the cirque and spilling warm light across Chasm Lake below Longs Peak in…

Sunrise Fills the Cirque

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Golden Hour in the Sunflowers — Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado. Golden light pouring through the clouds over a field of sunflowers near Denver…

Golden Hour in the Sunflowers

Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado

Under a Ceiling of Storm — Denver, Colorado. Downtown Denver holding its own under a low ceiling of storm cloud, shot looking east while the weather made up…

Under a Ceiling of Storm

Denver, Colorado

The Scrub Oak Outlasts Everything — Denver, Colorado. Gambel oak leaves in rust and copper hanging on well past their season, backlit against a soft bokeh…

The Scrub Oak Outlasts Everything

Denver, Colorado

Skyline Over the Pavilion — City Park, Denver. A tighter view of the Denver skyline over Ferril Lake in City Park, Colorado, as the sun sets behind the…

Skyline Over the Pavilion

City Park, Denver

Rainbow Over the Sunflowers — Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado. A vivid rainbow dropping into a field of sunflowers near Denver International Airport,…

Rainbow Over the Sunflowers

Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado

Through the Gap in the Pines — Long lake Indian peaks. A quiet subalpine lake doing its best impression of the sky, framed by spruce on both sides and a…

Through the Gap in the Pines

Long lake Indian peaks

Looking Up in the Aspens — Kebler Pass, Colorado. Pointing the lens straight up through an aspen grove on Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado, with…

Looking Up in the Aspens

Kebler Pass, Colorado

Twilight Swallows the Peak — Boulder, Colorado. Twilight blue swallowing the Flatirons above Boulder, Colorado while a few last yellow wildflowers hold the…

Twilight Swallows the Peak

Boulder, Colorado

Stacked Gold — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. A stack of lenticular clouds glowing gold over snowfields at sunset, layered like plates above the peak.

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

The Dam Builders Picked Well — Guanella Pass, Colorado. Storm light over a beaver pond doing fall in every shade of gold, willows and aspens crowded right…

The Dam Builders Picked Well

Guanella Pass, Colorado

The House That Watched It All Arrive — Denver, Colorado. Downtown Denver glowing behind one of the old brick survivors on the west side, holiday lights…

The House That Watched It All Arrive

Denver, Colorado

Evening Fire Over the Sunflowers — Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado. The last light of the evening lighting up the clouds over a sunflower field near…

Evening Fire Over the Sunflowers

Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado

Spring Arrives All at Once — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. Tulips packed shoulder to shoulder at the Denver Botanic Gardens, reds and oranges and pinks…

Spring Arrives All at Once

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Fog Burning Off the Aspens — Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Fog lifting through a hillside of turning aspens above Steamboat Springs while the sun works to…

Fog Burning Off the Aspens

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Sawatch Over the Timber — Leadville, Colorado. The snow-covered Sawatch Range standing over dense green timber outside Leadville with a lake catching light…

Sawatch Over the Timber

Leadville, Colorado

Ridges Fading to Blue — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. Range after range stacking into the haze at sunset from Mestaa'Ehehe Mountain, each one a shade…

Ridges Fading to Blue

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Moonset in the Belt of Venus — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. A full moon sinking into the pink belt of Venus while the peaks below catch the first of…

Moonset in the Belt of Venus

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

The Holiday Train — Georgetown, Colorado. The Georgetown Loop Railroad in its holiday lights, gold lettering glowing and the windows full of passengers on a…

The Holiday Train

Georgetown, Colorado

The Diamond in Still Water — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The Diamond on Longs Peak catching morning sun and dropping straight into a flat calm…

The Diamond in Still Water

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Tulips in Every Color — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. A bed of tulips at the Denver Botanic Gardens running red, pink, yellow and white with no two rows…

Tulips in Every Color

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

The Big Peaks Wake Up First — Collegiate Peaks, Colorado. Sunrise picking out the snow-covered Collegiate Peaks while the Arkansas Valley below stays cold…

The Big Peaks Wake Up First

Collegiate Peaks, Colorado

Everything Muffled but the Water — Boulder, Colorado. South Boulder Creek country buried under a fresh storm, snow on every rock and branch and the creek…

Everything Muffled but the Water

Boulder, Colorado

The Sun Wins the Argument — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. The sun finally breaking through a wall of morning fog along a Colorado mountain road, backlighting…

The Sun Wins the Argument

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

Confetti on Dark Water — Nederland. A whole grove's worth of aspen leaves rafted up on dark water, yellow and orange scattered edge to edge like confetti…

Confetti on Dark Water

Blue Hour Holds On — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Blue hour holding on at Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park while a neutral density…

Blue Hour Holds On

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The Tower and the Front Range — Lakeside, Colorado. The Lakeside Amusement Park tower pulled in tight against the purple haze of the Front Range at sunset,…

The Tower and the Front Range

Lakeside, Colorado

Winter Light on the Skyline — Denver, Colorado. The Denver skyline stretched out under a full sky of gold-lit cirrus, bare trees holding the foreground and…

Winter Light on the Skyline

Denver, Colorado

Green Comes Back to the Foothills — Boulder, Colorado. A steep green drainage in the Boulder foothills after the spring rains, grass running up both sides…

Green Comes Back to the Foothills

Boulder, Colorado

Cymbidium in Lime and Red — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. A cymbidium orchid showing off, lime green petals wrapped around a lip freckled in deep red.

Cymbidium in Lime and Red

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Front Row for Dillon — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Gold aspens holding the front row above Lake Dillon and its islands in Summit County, Colorado, with the Gore…

Front Row for Dillon

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Layer Cakes With Stone Lids — Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan. Reds, whites, and ochres doing all the talking at the Paint Mines near Calhan,…

Layer Cakes With Stone Lids

Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan

Ice and Amusement — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The Lakeside tower catching the last purple light over a frozen Berkeley Lake in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, with a…

Ice and Amusement

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Teal Sky Over Sloan's Lake — Sloan's Lake, Denver. The Denver skyline from across Sloan's Lake, Colorado, with streaks of gold cloud over a teal sky and the…

Teal Sky Over Sloan's Lake

Sloan's Lake, Denver

Ranges Stacked in Pink — Shrine Pass, Colorado. Range after range fading into pink and blue haze from Shrine Pass at sunrise, spruce tops cutting sharp…

Ranges Stacked in Pink

Shrine Pass, Colorado

You Hear It Before You See It — Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. A small falls working its way through mossy rock and boulders in deep Colorado forest…

You Hear It Before You See It

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

One Very Busy Tenant — Silverthorne, Colorado. Purple asters shot from straight above with a bee working the center bloom and paying no attention to the lens.

One Very Busy Tenant

Silverthorne, Colorado

Whitewater Over Pink Granite — Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado. A long exposure smoothing a cascade as it pours over pink and orange granite, with green moss…

Whitewater Over Pink Granite

Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado

Denver Under a Gold Ceiling — Denver, Colorado. High cirrus going gold over the downtown Denver skyline while the city itself stays cool and blue below.

Denver Under a Gold Ceiling

Denver, Colorado

Some Peaks Make You Work — Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. Lone Eagle Peak showing itself through a tangle of deadfall on the long walk into the Indian…

Some Peaks Make You Work

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

Canyon Road in Sun Flare — Clear creek canyon. Sun flare pouring over the ridges while a canyon road threads the bottom of a golden Colorado foothills valley.

Canyon Road in Sun Flare

Clear creek canyon

Gold Running Down the Drainage — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. Peak color pouring down the drainage along the Abyss Lake Trail, gold aspens threading between…

Gold Running Down the Drainage

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Thistle at the Water's Edge — Wellington Lake, Colorado. Musk thistle standing guard in the foreground while a rock face takes the day's first light across…

Thistle at the Water's Edge

Wellington Lake, Colorado

Speckled Orchid — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. A phalaenopsis orchid throwing magenta speckles across white petals like paint flicked off a brush, with a…

Speckled Orchid

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

The Church Under the Core — Abbott, Colorado. The old Abbott church glowing under the Milky Way core on a moonless night out on the Colorado plains.

The Church Under the Core

Abbott, Colorado

Pink Band Over Sniktau — Mount Sniktau, Colorado. A band of hot pink cloud stretched across the sky above the wind-scoured snowfields of Mount Sniktau at…

Pink Band Over Sniktau

Mount Sniktau, Colorado

Wall of White Bark — Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado. Standing inside an aspen grove in the Maroon Bells Wilderness where every direction is white bark and…

Wall of White Bark

Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado

One Head Taller — Crested Butte, Colorado. A single Colorado blue columbine standing a head above the rest of the meadow, blue and white petals with that…

One Head Taller

Crested Butte, Colorado

The Prairie Keeps Decorating — Georgetown, Colorado. Frosted seed heads catching low light like tiny fireworks, each one a starburst against a warm brown blur.

The Prairie Keeps Decorating

Georgetown, Colorado

The Garden Catches Fire — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sunrise over Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the sky…

The Garden Catches Fire

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

A Cloud Spills Over Hallett — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A cloud spilling over Hallett Peak while the sun works on the crags above Dream Lake…

A Cloud Spills Over Hallett

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The Annual Rebirth — Acorn Creek Trail, Silverthorne, Colorado. A wider view from the Acorn Creek Trail north of Silverthorne, Colorado, where balsamroot…

The Annual Rebirth

Acorn Creek Trail, Silverthorne, Colorado

The Dome Holds Court — Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado. The gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol holding court over Civic Center Park while the…

The Dome Holds Court

Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado

Green Water, White Curtains — Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Hanging Lake shot wide, white curtains of water coming down the back wall and the…

Green Water, White Curtains

Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

Fall Is in the Air — Guanella Pass, Colorado. A single yellow aspen leaf resting on a mossy granite rock near Guanella Pass, Colorado, with pine needles and…

Fall Is in the Air

Guanella Pass, Colorado

Keeping Watch Over Denver — Denver, Colorado. A silhouette holding the rocks in the foreground while downtown Denver goes soft in the evening haze behind it.

Keeping Watch Over Denver

Denver, Colorado

Straight Into the Fog — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. An empty two-lane pointed straight into a wall of fog with lodgepoles standing in ranks along the shoulder.

Straight Into the Fog

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

A Cold Seat on the Bank — Boulder, Colorado. South Boulder Creek shouldering its way through snow-capped rocks, a long exposure turning the whitewater into…

A Cold Seat on the Bank

Boulder, Colorado

I-70 Threading Floyd Hill — Floyd Hill, Colorado. Interstate 70 carved into the side of Floyd Hill from directly above, dark timber running up both sides…

I-70 Threading Floyd Hill

Floyd Hill, Colorado

A Full Load of Sparks — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. A toy pickup truck hauling a full load of sparks on a snowy Colorado night, the long exposure turning a…

A Full Load of Sparks

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

One Cloud Caught Fire — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. One cloud caught fire in the notch above Dream Lake while the moon hung around to watch, the…

One Cloud Caught Fire

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Paper Cutout Ridges — Chief Mountain, Colorado. Ridge after ridge fading into teal and shadow in the first light of morning, stacked out toward the…

Paper Cutout Ridges

Chief Mountain, Colorado

Both Ends of the Sky — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. The moon setting into the pink belt of Venus just as the sun found the snowy peaks behind me.

Both Ends of the Sky

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

The Understory Gets Its Turn — Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado. Wild rose leaves going purple and gold while the aspens up the hill take all the credit.

The Understory Gets Its Turn

Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado

Rays Over a Sea of Sunflowers — Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado. A wide view of sunflowers running to the horizon near Denver International Airport,…

Rays Over a Sea of Sunflowers

Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado

Above the Cloud Deck — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. Sunrise from the fire lookout on Mestaa'Ehehe Mountain with an inversion filling the valleys below,…

Above the Cloud Deck

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Inside the Grove — Nederland. Standing inside an aspen grove at peak color where every direction is white bark and gold leaves.

Inside the Grove

The Skyline Dates Itself — Denver, Colorado. Downtown Denver from the park bench view with fall trees holding the foreground and light trails smearing along…

The Skyline Dates Itself

Denver, Colorado

Icy Brook in Autumn — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Icy Brook winding out of Loch Vale under the spires in Rocky Mountain National Park, autumn…

Icy Brook in Autumn

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The Footbridge in Fall — Longmont, Colorado. A wooden footbridge crossing a creek near Longmont with cottonwoods and willows going gold on both banks and…

The Footbridge in Fall

Longmont, Colorado

The Long Gold Slope — Hope Pass, Colorado. A long gold slope of aspens running up toward the treeline on Hope Pass, dark timber above and scree filling the…

The Long Gold Slope

Hope Pass, Colorado

From One Island to the Next — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Looking across the grass sea from the top of one eroded butte to the next at the Pawnee…

From One Island to the Next

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Water Tower Against the Front Range — Arvada, Colorado. The Olde Town Arvada water tower stacked tight against the snow-dusted foothills, with a long lens…

Water Tower Against the Front Range

Arvada, Colorado

Five Minutes, Then an Ordinary Day — Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Alpenglow burning along the ridge above Dream Lake in Rocky…

Five Minutes, Then an Ordinary Day

Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

One Sunflower, One Rainbow

Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado

Boulder, Twice Over — Boulder, Colorado. The Flatirons doubling up in a still pond east of Boulder, Colorado at first light, with reeds standing dark along…

Boulder, Twice Over

Boulder, Colorado

Straight Up the Arkansas Valley — Leadville, Colorado. A set of rails running dead center into the frame with willows on both shoulders and the snow-capped…

Straight Up the Arkansas Valley

Leadville, Colorado

Lenticular Over the Peak — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. A lens-shaped cloud parked over the snowfields of Pikes Peak while the last gold of the day…

Lenticular Over the Peak

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Blue and Gold on the Hillside — Silverthorne, Colorado. Lupine and balsamroot trading blue and yellow across a Silverthorne hillside with the snow-loaded…

Blue and Gold on the Hillside

Silverthorne, Colorado

Amber Glass — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Looking down a Colorado valley as summer haze turned the sunrise into a sheet of amber glass, the…

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Shooting Through the Gold — Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado. Aspen leaves held right against the front of the lens and blown into soft gold smears, with…

Shooting Through the Gold

Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado

Paintbrush on Shrine Ridge — Shrine Pass, Colorado. Looking out from the top of Shrine Ridge near Vail Pass, Colorado, as morning light turns the haze…

Paintbrush on Shrine Ridge

Shrine Pass, Colorado

Built From the Rock It Stands On — South Valley Park, Jefferson County. An old stone homestead keeping company with the red rocks it was quarried from at…

Built From the Rock It Stands On

South Valley Park, Jefferson County

Two Seasons in One Reflection — Boulder, Colorado. First snow on the Flatirons above Boulder, Colorado while the ponds below still hang onto their autumn gold.

Two Seasons in One Reflection

Boulder, Colorado

Clouds Racing the Diamond — Chasm Lake, Colorado. A long exposure at Chasm Lake, Colorado, smearing clouds into streaks across a hard blue sky while the…

Clouds Racing the Diamond

Chasm Lake, Colorado

Straight Behind Downtown — City Park, Denver. The sun dropping straight behind the Denver skyline from across Ferril Lake in City Park, turning the whole…

Straight Behind Downtown

City Park, Denver

Hallett Over a Walkable Lake — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Hallett Peak standing over a Dream Lake you could walk straight across, snow-loaded…

Hallett Over a Walkable Lake

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Green Curtain Over the Plains — Sterling, Colorado. A green and violet aurora curtain hanging over a dark treeline on the eastern Colorado plains.

Green Curtain Over the Plains

Sterling, Colorado

Denver Doubled at Dawn — Sloan's Lake, Denver. Sunrise going gold behind the downtown Denver skyline with Sloan's Lake holding a near-perfect mirror of it.

Denver Doubled at Dawn

Sloan's Lake, Denver

A Lone Cottonwood in the Snow — Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City. A single cottonwood standing alone on the snowy prairie at…

A Lone Cottonwood in the Snow

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City

The Wind Paints the Sky — Buena Vista, Colorado. A ten-stop filter letting the wind paint the sky over the Collegiate Peaks near Buena Vista, Colorado.

The Wind Paints the Sky

Buena Vista, Colorado

Carter Lake Behind the Hogbacks — Carter Lake, Colorado. Carter Lake tucked in behind the hogbacks west of Loveland, Colorado, greener than the Front Range…

Carter Lake Behind the Hogbacks

Carter Lake, Colorado

Not Every Visit Gives You Glass — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Afternoon wind combing across an alpine lake below the crags in Rocky Mountain…

Not Every Visit Gives You Glass

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Little Church on the Prairie — Abbott, Colorado. The Milky Way rising over a lone white church on the plains near Abbott, Colorado, with red light glowing…

Little Church on the Prairie

Abbott, Colorado

Geese Hold the Line — City Park, Denver. The sky doing all the talking over a frozen City Park lake in Denver, with a long line of geese parked on the ice…

Geese Hold the Line

City Park, Denver

Denver in One Bite — Denver, Colorado. The whole Denver skyline in one wide frame with the highway painting red and white light trails across the bottom.

Denver in One Bite

Denver, Colorado

Better Than Most Places — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Granite, snow-dusted pines, and a sky with nothing to prove in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Better Than Most Places

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Southwest Soul — Taos, New Mexico. An adobe wall in Taos, New Mexico, warm in the late-afternoon light, with turquoise doors and window frames, hanging…

Taos, New Mexico

Moonset Over the Indian Peaks — Arapaho Pass. The full moon riding a lavender pre-dawn sky above the rocky summits of Arapaho Pass, Colorado, on a cold…

Moonset Over the Indian Peaks

Ice at Idaho Springs Reservoir — Idaho Springs Reservoir. Idaho Springs Reservoir frozen solid under a hard blue winter sky, with wind-streaked cirrus…

Ice at Idaho Springs Reservoir

Idaho Springs Reservoir

Full Display, No Audience — Boulder, Colorado. A wild turkey in full strut outside Boulder, tail fanned, wattles flushed red and blue, and absolutely nobody…

Full Display, No Audience

Boulder, Colorado

A Wall of Gold and White — Kebler Pass, Colorado. Standing inside an aspen grove on Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado, where white trunks run floor…

A Wall of Gold and White

Kebler Pass, Colorado

Another Acre of Gold — Gothic, Colorado. Gothic Mountain looming over another acre of wildflowers outside Crested Butte, Colorado, yellow blooms running…

Another Acre of Gold

Gothic, Colorado

Snow in Every Crease — Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan. Snow settling into every crease and gully of the Paint Mines at first light near Calhan, Colorado.

Snow in Every Crease

Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan

The Gorge Goes Monochrome — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A winter storm sliding through the gorge in Rocky Mountain National Park with the lake…

The Gorge Goes Monochrome

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Loud and Pink and Over Fast — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Fruit tree blossoms backlit against a bright white sky, petals glowing and the stamens standing out sharp.

Loud and Pink and Over Fast

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Peach Light on the Gore — Shrine Pass, Colorado. Peach and rose sunrise light spreading over the Gore Range from Shrine Ridge, with spruce standing dark in…

Peach Light on the Gore

Shrine Pass, Colorado

December at the Boston Mine — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A lit Christmas tree standing beside the old Boston Mine cabin under a clean night sky at Mayflower…

December at the Boston Mine

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Storm Clouds Make Way — Lookout mountain road. Storm clouds breaking apart just in time to let a Colorado sunrise through over the snowy foothills.

Storm Clouds Make Way

Lookout mountain road

Denver Through the Arches — Denver, Colorado. Downtown Denver doing its evening light show behind the Speer Boulevard arches, the whole skyline reflected in…

Denver Through the Arches

Denver, Colorado

The Ice Pops and Groans — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Pressure cracks spidering out across the frozen surface of The Loch in the last blue light…

The Ice Pops and Groans

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A Trail Paved in Leaves — Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado. A rocky trail winding up through an aspen grove in the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, the tread…

A Trail Paved in Leaves

Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, Colorado

Orange Over the Plains — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. Sunrise burning orange across the eastern horizon from Red Rocks, the Denver skyline sitting as a thin…

Orange Over the Plains

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

Eye Level on Cottonwood Pass — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. Down in the alpine tundra at flower height on Cottonwood Pass, Colorado, with white blooms…

Eye Level on Cottonwood Pass

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

Fog on Trail Ridge Road — Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park. Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, disappearing around a…

Fog on Trail Ridge Road

Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park

Gold Over the Interstate — Evergreen, Colorado. A long exposure smearing gold cloud across a teal sky above a Colorado highway as evening traffic thinned out.

Gold Over the Interstate

Evergreen, Colorado

Great Beasts of the Great Plains — Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City. A herd of bison grazing through fresh snow at the Rocky…

Great Beasts of the Great Plains

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City

Snowy Sunrise at Loveland Pass — Loveland Pass, Colorado. Orange dawn spreading over the snowfields and rock ribs of Loveland Pass, Colorado, with the…

Snowy Sunrise at Loveland Pass

Loveland Pass, Colorado

Smoke Season Sunset — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. Wildfire haze turning a Mestaa'Ehehe Mountain sunset into soft lavender and gold, with spruce tops…

Smoke Season Sunset

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Vertical From Top to Bottom — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Notchtop Mountain lit up while the tarn below stays in frozen shadow, gold grass…

Vertical From Top to Bottom

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Dunes Against the Sangres — Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. The tallest dunes in North America piled up against the snow-streaked Sangre de Cristo…

Dunes Against the Sangres

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

The Garden Wakes in Gold — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sunrise burning orange along the horizon behind the sandstone fins at Garden of…

The Garden Wakes in Gold

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

An Hour From the Shoreline — Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. First light picking out the high ridge in blazing gold while the lake below stays locked in…

An Hour From the Shoreline

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

The Sky Does All the Talking — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. The Pawnee Buttes holding the horizon down while the sunrise sky does all the talking…

The Sky Does All the Talking

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Three Minutes of Fire — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The whole sky caught fire over Garden of the Gods for about three minutes and then…

Three Minutes of Fire

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Denver Wakes Up — Red Rocks Park, Morrison. Shot from Red Rocks Park just after sunrise, looking east as the Denver skyline catches gold and the plains…

Denver Wakes Up

Red Rocks Park, Morrison

Daybreak Over the Beaver Ponds — Kebler Pass, Colorado. Daybreak over the beaver ponds on Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado, with a West Elk peak…

Daybreak Over the Beaver Ponds

Kebler Pass, Colorado

The Long Way Through Kenosha — Kenosha Pass, Colorado. A two-track road curving through aspens at Kenosha Pass, Colorado, with the trees turning yellow and…

The Long Way Through Kenosha

Kenosha Pass, Colorado

Sunflowers and Lupine Trading Colors — Gothic, Colorado. Aspen sunflowers and lupine trading yellow and purple all the way up to the treeline below a green…

Sunflowers and Lupine Trading Colors

Gothic, Colorado

The Scarecrow Has Opinions — Anderson Farms. A corn stalk scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern grin standing guard over a Colorado corn maze at dusk, the whole…

The Scarecrow Has Opinions

Steaming Like a Kettle — Silverthorne, Colorado. A Colorado river steaming like a kettle in the sunrise cold, backlit fog pouring off the surface and…

Steaming Like a Kettle

Silverthorne, Colorado

Cotton Candy Over Hoosier Pass — Hoosier Pass, Colorado. Cotton candy twilight settling over Hoosier Pass, Colorado while everything underneath it froze solid.

Cotton Candy Over Hoosier Pass

Hoosier Pass, Colorado

Best Picture Frame in Summit County — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. Hand-hewn logs framing the snowy basin the miners came to Mayflower Gulch for in the first…

Best Picture Frame in Summit County

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Some Frames Compose Themselves — Barr Lake State Park, Colorado. A full moon coming up behind a lone tipi out on the Colorado plains, the whole sky graded…

Some Frames Compose Themselves

Barr Lake State Park, Colorado

Stair-Stepping Down Through the Boulders — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. A creek stair-stepping down through boulders while aspens burn orange and gold on the…

Stair-Stepping Down Through the Boulders

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

The Stanley, Wall to Wall — Estes Park, Colorado. The Stanley Hotel lobby stretched corner to corner, gilt-framed portraits watching over the staircase and…

The Stanley, Wall to Wall

Estes Park, Colorado

City Park Under a Burning Sky — City Park, Denver. A blazing sunset over Ferril Lake in Denver's City Park, Colorado, with fiery orange and purple clouds…

City Park Under a Burning Sky

City Park, Denver

Purple Hour on the Summit — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. Purple hour on a Colorado summit with the fire lookout holding the high ground and the whole…

Purple Hour on the Summit

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Five Stops to Gold — Georgetown, Colorado. Five aspen leaves off the same tree laid out on lichen-covered stone, each one a different stop on the way from…

Five Stops to Gold

Georgetown, Colorado

Belly Down in the Tundra — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. Flat on the ground in the alpine grass with white wildflowers and an old weathered log in the…

Belly Down in the Tundra

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

Sloan-rise — Sloan's Lake, Denver. Sunrise over Sloan's Lake in Denver, Colorado, with a wide band of orange cloud above the downtown skyline and the whole…

Sloan's Lake, Denver

One Old Log Keeping Score — Nederland. A Colorado lake gone completely quiet under a foot of snow with one weathered log left out to keep score.

One Old Log Keeping Score

Fog Thinning Between the Lodgepoles — Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. Morning fog thinning out between lodgepole pines as the sun finally made its move, the…

Fog Thinning Between the Lodgepoles

Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

Two Colors and a Horizon — Eastern Plains, Colorado. A field on the eastern plains near Denver running gold from edge to edge under a deep teal sky, with…

Two Colors and a Horizon

Eastern Plains, Colorado

Logs Suspended in Glass — Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Old logs lying across the bottom of Hanging Lake in water so clear they look like they…

Logs Suspended in Glass

Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

Quiet Weather, Quiet Picture — Breckenridge. Fresh snow loaded onto every spruce branch with one bare snag standing through the middle against a flat gray sky.

Quiet Weather, Quiet Picture

The Castles at Midday — Ohio Pass, Colorado. Midday light on the Castles and the long ridge above Ohio Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado, with wispy clouds…

The Castles at Midday

Ohio Pass, Colorado

Down Into the Valley — Hope Pass, Colorado. Looking down the valley from Hope Pass with gold aspens filling the drainage and the Sawatch peaks stacking up…

Down Into the Valley

Hope Pass, Colorado

Nothing but Yellow — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. A rocky stretch of the Abyss Lake Trail near Guanella Pass, Colorado, completely enclosed by aspens at peak…

Nothing but Yellow

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Red Rocks Over Frosted Grass — South Valley Park, Jefferson County. Red sandstone outcrops holding court over a frosted meadow at South Valley Park in…

Red Rocks Over Frosted Grass

South Valley Park, Jefferson County

A Whole Weekend in One View — Wellington Lake, Colorado. Wellington Lake on a calm summer afternoon in Colorado, with green ridges running down to the far…

A Whole Weekend in One View

Wellington Lake, Colorado

Autumn Climbs the Mountainside — Hope Pass, Colorado. Morning light over the Sawatch Range from the trail to Hope Pass, Colorado, with a line of turning…

Autumn Climbs the Mountainside

Hope Pass, Colorado

A City That Never Fully Sleeps — Denver, Colorado. Light trails feeding into a Denver skyline that never quite goes dark, shot from the west side on a clear…

A City That Never Fully Sleeps

Denver, Colorado

Morning Color Near Lizard Head — Lizard Head Pass, Colorado. Morning light sweeping across the colorful slopes of the San Juan Mountains near Lizard Head…

Morning Color Near Lizard Head

Lizard Head Pass, Colorado

Dream Lake Under Winter — Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Standing where open water usually mirrors Hallett Peak, now buried under a…

Dream Lake Under Winter

Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Sunrise Over the Springs — Manitou Springs, Colorado. The sun coming up over the eastern plains from partway up the Manitou Incline, Colorado Springs spread…

Sunrise Over the Springs

Manitou Springs, Colorado

Golden Grass at Pawnee Buttes — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Low winter sun lighting the larger of the two Pawnee Buttes and the golden prairie…

Golden Grass at Pawnee Buttes

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Flat Light, Full Color — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. A full basin of gold aspens under a moody gray sky with a dark ridge closing off the far end.

Flat Light, Full Color

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Water Finds a Way Through — Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park. A creek working down through a jumble of fallen logs and green undergrowth off…

Water Finds a Way Through

Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park

Mayflower Does Not Ease You In — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The sky over the Tenmile cirque going full crimson before the sun ever showed itself at…

Mayflower Does Not Ease You In

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Two Seasons, One Lake — Grand Lake. Fresh snow up high, gold aspens down low, and cloud spilling over the ridgeline into a lake calm enough to double all of it.

Two Seasons, One Lake

Warm Light on the Castle Ridge — Ohio Pass, Colorado. Early sun warming the Castles and the ridge behind them while the aspens below hold their orange and…

Warm Light on the Castle Ridge

Ohio Pass, Colorado

Evening Down the Crystal Valley — Marble, Colorado. Sunset settling over the Crystal River valley outside Marble, Colorado, with tall peaks fading into blue…

Evening Down the Crystal Valley

Marble, Colorado

Spruce Ranks Below the Divide — Brainard Lake Recreation Area, Colorado. Dense ranks of spruce running up toward a snow-loaded ridge in the Brainard Lake…

Spruce Ranks Below the Divide

Brainard Lake Recreation Area, Colorado

Lamplight and Skyline — City Park, Denver. An old park lamp standing dark against a sky gone completely gold over Ferril Lake, with the Denver skyline and…

Lamplight and Skyline

City Park, Denver

The Quietest Hour — Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan. Dawn light easing into the gullies at the Paint Mines near Calhan, Colorado while snow hides in…

The Quietest Hour

Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan

Peak One in Gold Water — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Sunset on Lake Dillon with the Tenmile Range catching the last light and the whole surface of the reservoir…

Peak One in Gold Water

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Still Doing Its Job — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The same window the Mayflower Gulch miners looked through every morning, still framing the same…

Still Doing Its Job

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Wave Clouds Over the Summit — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. Lenticulars stacking like plates over a snow-loaded summit and catching fire as the sun dropped.

Wave Clouds Over the Summit

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Spires Over a Frozen Pond — Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Morning light on the Sharkstooth and the jagged spires above Sky Pond in Rocky…

Spires Over a Frozen Pond

Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A Neighborhood Park Outperforms — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. A neighborhood park sunset at Crown Hill Lake in Wheat Ridge, Colorado that outperformed half the…

A Neighborhood Park Outperforms

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Gold Crowding the Banks — Georgetown, Colorado. Peak gold crowding both banks of a mountain stream, bare branches and yellow leaves filling the frame edge…

Gold Crowding the Banks

Georgetown, Colorado

A Creek in No Hurry — Almont co. A shallow creek taking its sweet time through a green mountain meadow while low cloud sits down on the ridges behind.

A Creek in No Hurry

Five Minutes of Furnace — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. First light turning the sandstone at Garden of the Gods into a furnace while snow…

Five Minutes of Furnace

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

After the Squall — Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan. A dusting of snow settling into the white clay at the Paint Mines near Calhan, Colorado after a…

After the Squall

Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan

Knee-Deep Summer — Gothic, Colorado. Knee-deep summer green running up the valley toward Gothic, Colorado, with the river running clear over the cobbles and…

Knee-Deep Summer

Gothic, Colorado

Indian Peaks Behind the Timber — Brainard Lake Recreation Area, Colorado. The Indian Peaks rising snow-covered behind a wall of evergreen in the Brainard…

Indian Peaks Behind the Timber

Brainard Lake Recreation Area, Colorado

Lone Eagle Through the Spruce

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

Dillon Blue — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Lake Dillon in Summit County showing that impossible turquoise, with drought-exposed shoreline curving through the…

Lake Dillon, Colorado

The Old Snag at Emerald Lake — Emerald Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park. An ancient bleached snag leaning over Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National…

The Old Snag at Emerald Lake

Emerald Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park

Somebody Beat Me Up the Trail — Nederland. A single line of tracks threading the snow-loaded spruce after a Colorado storm, with backlight coming through…

Somebody Beat Me Up the Trail

Gold Rain Over Arvada — Arvada, Colorado. A firework breaking into long gold streamers against a black sky over Arvada on the Fourth of July.

Gold Rain Over Arvada

Arvada, Colorado

Ember Over Chief Mountain — Chief Mountain, Colorado. A single band of cloud lighting up orange over layered blue ridges from the summit of Chief Mountain,…

Ember Over Chief Mountain

Chief Mountain, Colorado

The Gorge Holds Onto Night — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The first red light tagging the rim above Loch Vale while the gorge below still holds…

The Gorge Holds Onto Night

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Alpenglow on Schedule — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Alpenglow hitting the spires above Sky Pond in Rocky Mountain National Park right on…

Alpenglow on Schedule

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Lupine in the Burn — Silverthorne, Colorado. Purple lupine catching the one shaft of light that made it through a stand of dark burned trunks.

Lupine in the Burn

Silverthorne, Colorado

Caught Mid-Lick — Genesee. A bull bison caught mid-lick in gold winter grass, tongue out and two thousand pounds of him utterly unbothered.

Caught Mid-Lick

The Meadow Fills In — Shrine Pass, Colorado. A green meadow on Shrine Pass covered in yellow and pink wildflowers at first light, spruce holding the edges…

The Meadow Fills In

Shrine Pass, Colorado

First Tracks in the Garden — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Fresh snow on the main loop at Garden of the Gods with first light climbing the…

First Tracks in the Garden

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Leaves Riding the Eddy — Longmont, Colorado. Whitewater coming down a rock step near Longmont into a pool ringed with gold leaves turning slowly in the current.

Leaves Riding the Eddy

Longmont, Colorado

Frost From Directly Above — Evergreen, Colorado. Frost-loaded pines shot straight down from above near Evergreen, every crown a pale starburst against dark…

Frost From Directly Above

Evergreen, Colorado

Green Season at The Loch — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The Loch in full summer green with Cathedral Wall rising behind it and clean water…

Green Season at The Loch

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Castles Over a Sea of Aspen — Ohio Pass, Colorado. The rock towers known as the Castles standing above a sea of gold and orange aspen from the overlook on…

Castles Over a Sea of Aspen

Ohio Pass, Colorado

Red, Green, and Gold — Arvada, Colorado. Three shells going off at once over Arvada, red and green bursts crossing a long gold rain of sparks.

Red, Green, and Gold

Arvada, Colorado

Early Elk in the Meadow — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A cow elk standing alert in a meadow at dawn, framed by an old ponderosa with a dark…

Early Elk in the Meadow

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Where the Ice Left It — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A glacial erratic parked on polished granite exactly where the ice dropped it, with Glacier…

Where the Ice Left It

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A Little Closer to It — Loveland Pass, Colorado. The galaxy leaning over the Continental Divide at midnight from Loveland Pass, Colorado.

A Little Closer to It

Loveland Pass, Colorado

No-Name Pullout, San Juans — San Juan Mountains, Colorado. A nameless pullout in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado that would be a state park anywhere else…

No-Name Pullout, San Juans

San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Dew Like Beadwork — Breckenridge. One yellow mushroom wearing the morning's dew like beadwork, tucked into pine needles and low green leaves on the forest…

Dew Like Beadwork

Colorado Is a Desert Until You Get Up Here — Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado. Ridge after ridge of unbroken green with weather building over the far peaks and…

Colorado Is a Desert Until You Get Up Here

Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado

What Crystal Left Behind — Crystal, Colorado. A weathered timber building still standing in the ghost town of Crystal, Colorado, boxed in on all sides by…

What Crystal Left Behind

Crystal, Colorado

Why the Alarm Gets Set for Four — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Every color the Colorado prairie owns showing up at once over the Pawnee Buttes,…

Why the Alarm Gets Set for Four

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Early Light in Rustler's Gulch — Rustler's Gulch, Crested Butte, Colorado. First light on a peak above Rustler's Gulch near Crested Butte, Colorado, with a…

Early Light in Rustler's Gulch

Rustler's Gulch, Crested Butte, Colorado

Columbines Below the Diamond — Longs Peak, Colorado. Colorado blue columbines scattered across a steep green slope on the Longs Peak approach, with the…

Columbines Below the Diamond

Longs Peak, Colorado

Blue Ice at The Loch — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Wind-polished ice glowing electric blue around a snow-capped boulder at The Loch in Rocky…

Blue Ice at The Loch

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

As the Stream Flows — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. A slow bend of Clear Creek in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, reflecting gold from the overhanging willows and…

As the Stream Flows

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Orange Band Over Sloan's Lake — Sloan's Lake, Denver. A wide view across Sloan's Lake in Denver, Colorado, as sunrise lights a band of cloud orange above a…

Orange Band Over Sloan's Lake

Sloan's Lake, Denver

Ribbons Home — Genesee. Tail lights heading home and headlights heading up while the Continental Divide catches the last of the light.

Notchtop From Lake Helene — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Notchtop Mountain rising straight off a frozen Lake Helene in Rocky Mountain National…

Notchtop From Lake Helene

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Head First Into the Bloom — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. A bee buried face first in a pink and white bloom, close enough to count the hairs on its thorax and the…

Head First Into the Bloom

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

The Sharkstooth Catches Sun — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The Sharkstooth catching morning sun while Sky Pond waits in the shade below, deep…

The Sharkstooth Catches Sun

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A Meadow You Wade Into — Gothic, Colorado. A full field of aspen sunflowers all leaning the same direction under a busy Colorado summer sky, with the peaks…

A Meadow You Wade Into

Gothic, Colorado

Sunrise Spills Across Dillon — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Sunrise going gold over Lake Dillon with the Tenmile Range standing dark on the left and the whole…

Sunrise Spills Across Dillon

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Where the Grass Gives Up — Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Prairie grass and low scrub running out across the valley floor until the sand simply…

Where the Grass Gives Up

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

Nothing Frozen but Me — Littleton. Bare cottonwoods and a sky worth reflecting on a slow winter evening along a Colorado lakeshore.

Nothing Frozen but Me

Pink to Violet in Minutes — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. The Mestaa'Ehehe Mountain fire lookout under a sky that ran pink to violet in the space of a…

Pink to Violet in Minutes

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Enchanted — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. A narrow path winding between white aspen trunks on the Abyss Lake Trail near Guanella Pass, Colorado, with the…

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Gold Down to the Ridgeline — Kebler Pass, Colorado. A hillside off Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado, packed with aspens at full gold and dark spruce…

Gold Down to the Ridgeline

Kebler Pass, Colorado

Sun Through a Single Leaf — Old Dillon Dam Road. One aspen leaf catching the sunrise dead center and throwing a clean starburst, with the rest of the grove…

Sun Through a Single Leaf

Old Dillon Dam Road

An Independent Streak — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. A lone horse working the winter grass out on the Colorado plains, completely unbothered by the…

An Independent Streak

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

The Day Starts in Stages — Loveland Pass, Colorado. Alpenglow finding the one ridge already catching sun while everything below is still cold and blue.

The Day Starts in Stages

Loveland Pass, Colorado

Pikes Peak Keeps an Eye on Things — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The sun cresting behind the spires at Garden of the Gods with Pikes Peak…

Pikes Peak Keeps an Eye on Things

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Frozen Above Idaho Springs — Idaho Springs, Colorado. A snow-plastered peak above Idaho Springs, Colorado catching the first warm light while the forest…

Frozen Above Idaho Springs

Idaho Springs, Colorado

Taking Another Winter on the Chin — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The Boston Mine cabins taking another winter on the chin at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado, with…

Taking Another Winter on the Chin

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

The Loch Warms Up — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. First light working its way down the walls above The Loch in Rocky Mountain National Park,…

The Loch Warms Up

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Ankle Deep and Worth the Trip — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. First light reaching into the basin while a shallow alpine tarn still sits in shade,…

Ankle Deep and Worth the Trip

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Beaver Pond Under Moving Clouds — Guanella Pass, Colorado. A 25-second exposure at a beaver pond near Guanella Pass, Colorado, blurs a stormy sky into soft…

Beaver Pond Under Moving Clouds

Guanella Pass, Colorado

Good Morning, Denver — Sloan's Lake, Denver. Sunrise behind the Denver skyline from Sloan's Lake, Colorado, with the sky glowing yellow and orange behind…

Good Morning, Denver

Sloan's Lake, Denver

The Moon Burns Through — Denver, Colorado. A full moon burning through fast-moving cloud over the Denver skyline, the long exposure smearing the sky into…

The Moon Burns Through

Denver, Colorado

The Flatirons, Stacked Twice — Boulder, Colorado. The Flatirons stacked twice over a dead calm pond east of Boulder, Colorado, with autumn reeds and…

The Flatirons, Stacked Twice

Boulder, Colorado

Orange Sky, Purple Ridge — Ohio Pass, Colorado. A burning orange band of sunrise sky above a deep purple ridgeline and the Castles on Ohio Pass near Crested…

Orange Sky, Purple Ridge

Ohio Pass, Colorado

The Core Over the Divide — Loveland Pass, Colorado. The Milky Way core rising over the Continental Divide from Loveland Pass, Colorado, with a wash of green…

The Core Over the Divide

Loveland Pass, Colorado

Whitewater and Lichen — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. Gold grass, lichen-crusted boulders, and whitewater braided through the rocks on a Colorado mountain…

Whitewater and Lichen

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Light Breaks Over the Sunflowers — Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado. Sun rays breaking through storm clouds over a huge sunflower field near Denver…

Light Breaks Over the Sunflowers

Sunflower Fields near DIA, Colorado

Golden Lights Up First — Golden, Colorado. Dusk settling over the valley from the top of South Table Mountain, with Golden lighting up first and Denver…

Golden Lights Up First

Golden, Colorado

Blue Hour Below the Flatirons — Boulder, Colorado. Blue hour settling over a snowed-in meadow under the Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado, every shadow gone…

Blue Hour Below the Flatirons

Boulder, Colorado

Tower of Memories at Dusk — Crown Hill Park, Colorado. The Tower of Memories standing pale against a bruised purple and pink sky at Crown Hill in Wheat…

Tower of Memories at Dusk

Crown Hill Park, Colorado

One Puddle's Worth of Sky — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Glacier-polished granite in Rocky Mountain National Park holding one puddle's worth of…

One Puddle's Worth of Sky

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

All Teeth and No Easy Lines — Gore Range, Colorado. The Gore Range doing what the Gore Range does, all teeth and no easy lines, seen over a solid wall of…

All Teeth and No Easy Lines

Gore Range, Colorado

Notchtop in Winter Violet — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The snow-plastered face of Notchtop Mountain standing over a dark band of timber, the…

Notchtop in Winter Violet

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Lakeside Across the Ice — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The Lakeside Amusement Park tower and the old Cyclone glowing gold across a half-frozen Berkeley Lake in…

Lakeside Across the Ice

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Color Across the Whole Sky — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Color pouring across the entire sky above the Pawnee Buttes while the shortgrass prairie…

Color Across the Whole Sky

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Cirrus Over the Fins — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Morning sun on the great fins at Garden of the Gods with high cirrus streaking across…

Cirrus Over the Fins

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Wildflowers Under Pink Peaks — Shrine Pass, Colorado. Wildflowers filling the foreground on Shrine Pass while the Gore Range catches pink alpenglow behind a…

Wildflowers Under Pink Peaks

Shrine Pass, Colorado

Green, Orange, Gold — Old Dillon Dam Road. Three aspen leaves lined up on wet river gravel like a progress bar for September, running green to orange to…

Green, Orange, Gold

Old Dillon Dam Road

Columbines Against the Sky — Crested Butte, Colorado. Colorado blue columbines and their yellow neighbors shot from ground level so they stand against a…

Columbines Against the Sky

Crested Butte, Colorado

Retired Below the Sneffels Range — Mount Sneffels Overlook, Ridgway, Colorado. An old rusted truck cab sinking into tall green grass near the Mount Sneffels…

Retired Below the Sneffels Range

Mount Sneffels Overlook, Ridgway, Colorado

City Lights Before the Sun — Manitou Springs, Colorado. Colorado Springs still lit up below while the horizon burns orange and red over the plains, shot…

City Lights Before the Sun

Manitou Springs, Colorado

Every Board Has an Opinion — Clear creek canyon. Old planks and a hand-built railing running a straight line into a Colorado canyon, aspens going gold on…

Every Board Has an Opinion

Clear creek canyon

A Whole Mountainside Turning — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. Morning sun raking across an entire mountainside of turning aspens, gold pouring down the slope…

A Whole Mountainside Turning

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Snow Pillows and Black Water — Nederland. Snow pillows building on every rock the creek could not keep clear, with fallen logs bridging the flow and winter…

Snow Pillows and Black Water

Three Bison, One City — Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City. Three bison grazing in tall prairie grass at the Rocky Mountain…

Three Bison, One City

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City

Lily Pads Turning at Nymph Lake — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Nymph Lake's lily pads starting to turn with the season in Rocky Mountain National…

Lily Pads Turning at Nymph Lake

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Orchid in Magenta Lace — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. A pair of orchid blooms at the Denver Botanic Gardens, magenta veining running across white petals…

Orchid in Magenta Lace

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Sun Finds the Trail — Buena Vista, Colorado. Sun finding its way down through the spruce onto a rocky trail in the Colorado high country, with a peak just…

Sun Finds the Trail

Buena Vista, Colorado

A Window of Gold — Lake Dillon, Colorado. A window through peak gold aspens looking down to a reservoir and the ridges beyond, with cumulus building over…

A Window of Gold

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Moonset Over Lake Haiyaha — Lake Haiyaha, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The moon setting over the ridge above Lake Haiyaha in Rocky Mountain…

Moonset Over Lake Haiyaha

Lake Haiyaha, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Denver After the Lights Come On — Denver, Colorado. Downtown Denver stacking its lights against a clean night sky, with one car on the ramp drawing a long…

Denver After the Lights Come On

Denver, Colorado

Ribbons Over the Travertine — Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. A closer look at the falls at Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, where water…

Ribbons Over the Travertine

Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

Breakfast at Barr Lake — Barr Lake State Park, Colorado. A bald eagle perched on a weathered cottonwood branch at Barr Lake State Park, Colorado, bending…

Breakfast at Barr Lake

Barr Lake State Park, Colorado

The Park Hands Out Previews — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A snow-covered peak framed by trees on the drive into Rocky Mountain National Park,…

The Park Hands Out Previews

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Ten Minutes to Headlamp — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The last pink of the day hanging over a quiet alpine tarn, dark spruce crowding both banks…

Ten Minutes to Headlamp

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Wildflowers Facing the Gore Range — Acorn Creek Trail, Silverthorne, Colorado. Arrowleaf balsamroot and purple lupine covering a sagebrush slope on the…

Wildflowers Facing the Gore Range

Acorn Creek Trail, Silverthorne, Colorado

Fifty Shades of Green — Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado. Fifty shades of green stacked between the aspens and the far peak in the Colorado high country, with…

Fifty Shades of Green

Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado

Big Work From a Little Creek — Georgetown, Colorado. A little creek doing big work under a dense canopy of gold willow and aspen, the long exposure turning…

Big Work From a Little Creek

Georgetown, Colorado

Before the Sun Cleared the Ridge — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The horizon burning orange behind the gateway rocks at Garden of the Gods…

Before the Sun Cleared the Ridge

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Dawn Belongs to the Wind — Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan. First light finding the white clay at the Paint Mines near Calhan, Colorado before anyone…

Dawn Belongs to the Wind

Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan

The Mill in High Summer — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The Crystal Mill hemmed in by aspens and deep summer green, the Crystal River running loud and…

The Mill in High Summer

Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado

Hoodoos in Snow Hats — Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan. Capstone hoodoos wearing fresh snow like hats at the Paint Mines near Calhan, Colorado, under…

Hoodoos in Snow Hats

Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan

Sunset Over the Midway — Berkeley Lake Park, Denver. Sunset burning orange over Berkeley Lake in Denver, with the Lakeside Amusement Park tower and the old…

Sunset Over the Midway

Berkeley Lake Park, Denver

Ten Thousand Years, Same Face — Genesee. Close enough with a long lens to count the curls on his forehead.

Ten Thousand Years, Same Face

Racing Sky Over the Collegiates — Collegiate Peaks, Colorado. A long exposure stretches fast-moving clouds into streaks above the snow-covered Collegiate…

Racing Sky Over the Collegiates

Collegiate Peaks, Colorado

Whiteout at the Lake — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Snow coming in sideways over a frozen lake in Rocky Mountain National Park while the spires…

Whiteout at the Lake

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Every Tree on Holiday Duty — Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado. Every tree in Civic Center Park pulling holiday duty in front of the Colorado State…

Every Tree on Holiday Duty

Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado

Sun Cracks the Headwall — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The sun clearing the headwall above The Loch and throwing a hard starburst across a basin…

Sun Cracks the Headwall

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The Prairie Does Drama Quietly — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. The pair of Pawnee Buttes trading light with a moody dawn sky over the Colorado…

The Prairie Does Drama Quietly

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Every Color the Lake Could Hold — Colorado. A Front Range lake catching an entire sky's worth of fire at sunrise, reeds standing dark along the near shore…

Every Color the Lake Could Hold

Christmas at Eleven Thousand Feet — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Somebody strings lights on this little tree at Dream Lake every December and the…

Christmas at Eleven Thousand Feet

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Garden of the Gods, After the Storm — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sunrise painting the great fins at Garden of the Gods right after an…

Garden of the Gods, After the Storm

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Glacier Gorge Stacked Behind — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Mills Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park with the whole of Glacier Gorge stacked up…

Glacier Gorge Stacked Behind

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Cotton Candy Over the Buttes — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. The Pawnee Buttes doing their best desert impression under a cotton candy sunrise sky,…

Cotton Candy Over the Buttes

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Alpenglow Above the Treeline — Silverthorne, Colorado. First light warming the snow-loaded Gore Range above a dense wall of evergreen near Silverthorne,…

Alpenglow Above the Treeline

Silverthorne, Colorado

Moss, Mist and Falling Water — Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Another angle on the falls at Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, framed by…

Moss, Mist and Falling Water

Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

Orchid Arc — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. A whole spray of pink phalaenopsis working through its sequence, tight buds at one end and full open blooms at…

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Sawhill at First Light — Sawhill Ponds, Boulder. Morning color spilling over the Flatirons and onto a Sawhill Pond east of Boulder, Colorado, with cattails…

Sawhill at First Light

Sawhill Ponds, Boulder

Mile-High Magic — Denver, Colorado. The Denver skyline from the west side of I-25 near the Speer Boulevard exit, with the arched Speer bridges in the…

Mile-High Magic

Denver, Colorado

A Different Planet — Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Blue ice wrapping a moss-covered boulder at Dream Lake while morning light lands on…

A Different Planet

Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A Trail That Barely Fits — Gothic, Colorado. A singletrack tunneling through wildflowers taller than your handlebars, sunflowers and lupine crowding in from…

A Trail That Barely Fits

Gothic, Colorado

Storm Leftovers Catch Fire — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Storm leftovers catching fire above Loch Vale at first light in Rocky Mountain National…

Storm Leftovers Catch Fire

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

It's the Journey — McClure Pass, Colorado. Highway 133 curving up toward McClure Pass, Colorado, through hillsides of aspen at peak gold under a clear, deep…

It's the Journey

McClure Pass, Colorado

Two Seasons Before Breakfast — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. First sun lighting the aspen ridge while the creek below stays in cold shade, frost hanging on…

Two Seasons Before Breakfast

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Purple Peak, Pink Dawn — Horse Ranch Park, Colorado. A purple-shouldered peak at sunrise with pink and orange clouds above, and a scatter of golden aspens…

Purple Peak, Pink Dawn

Horse Ranch Park, Colorado

It Just Stands There and Dares You — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Notchtop Mountain shouldering into a hard blue Colorado sky above a snowfield…

It Just Stands There and Dares You

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Gold Under a Burning Sky — Ohio Pass, Colorado. Orange aspens glowing in the foreground below a ridge of purple peaks and a thin line of fiery sunrise sky,…

Gold Under a Burning Sky

Ohio Pass, Colorado

The Corner That Stops Everyone — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Looking down the gorge toward Odessa Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park while…

The Corner That Stops Everyone

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The Building in Full Dress — Denver, Colorado. The Denver City and County Building in full holiday dress, every column lit in red, blue, and gold with the…

The Building in Full Dress

Denver, Colorado

Fourth of July Over Arvada — Arvada, Colorado. A single firework bursting in a spray of gold and white over Arvada, Colorado, on the Fourth of July.

Fourth of July Over Arvada

Arvada, Colorado

Smoke Makes Strange Light — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Wildfire haze turning the sky above Rocky Mountain National Park into a gradient nobody…

Smoke Makes Strange Light

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Out Here the Sky Is the Landscape — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Miles of shortgrass prairie with the Pawnee Buttes barely holding the horizon down…

Out Here the Sky Is the Landscape

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

A Wheel That Stopped Turning — Clear creek canyon. An old corral and a wagon wheel that has not turned in decades, half buried in snow in Colorado ranch…

A Wheel That Stopped Turning

Clear creek canyon

Yucca Standing Guard — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. A yucca standing guard on the walk out toward the Pawnee Buttes with the sunrise burning gold…

Yucca Standing Guard

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

They Built for Keeps — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A hand-hewn log cabin with a sagging roof still shrugging off the drifts at eleven thousand feet in…

They Built for Keeps

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

You Forget the Shutter Exists — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. The kind of Pawnee Buttes sunrise sky that makes you stop setting up and just watch,…

You Forget the Shutter Exists

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Snowfield Below Mount Blue Sky — Echo Lake, Colorado. A wide snowfield running up into dense spruce below Mount Blue Sky, seen from the Echo Lake basin…

Snowfield Below Mount Blue Sky

Echo Lake, Colorado

The Moon Clocks In — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The moon punching in for its shift over a mountain lake just as the day's blue drained out of…

The Moon Clocks In

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Sunrise Goes Nuclear — Sloan's Lake, Denver. Sunrise going absolutely nuclear behind the Denver skyline while Sloan's Lake sits frozen and quiet in the…

Sunrise Goes Nuclear

Sloan's Lake, Denver

Purple Evening at City Park — City Park, Denver. Sunset over Ferril Lake in Denver's City Park, Colorado, with the downtown skyline and the red-roofed…

Purple Evening at City Park

City Park, Denver

Sunburst Through the Fins — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The sun cracking over the sandstone fins at Garden of the Gods and throwing a…

Sunburst Through the Fins

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Whole Drainage Dressed for Fall — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. An entire drainage dressed for autumn, gold aspens up on the slopes and frosted willows…

The Whole Drainage Dressed for Fall

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

Somebody Topped the Tree — Manitou Springs, Colorado. A gold star tree-topper wired to the crown of a pine partway up the Manitou Incline, snow in the…

Somebody Topped the Tree

Manitou Springs, Colorado

Two Deer and a Sunburst — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Winter sun cracking through the pines while a pair of mule deer pick their way…

Two Deer and a Sunburst

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

A Fitting Spot for It — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. An old fire lookout keeping its silhouette while the sky does its best impression of a wildfire,…

A Fitting Spot for It

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

The Camp Robber — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A gray jay puffed up against the cold on a weathered stump, one eye firmly on my snacks.

The Camp Robber

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Flag on a Two-Track — Fairplay, Colorado. An American flag standing alone on a dirt two-track outside Fairplay with a hillside of gold aspens running up…

Flag on a Two-Track

Fairplay, Colorado

Glacier Flour Turquoise — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. That unmistakable glacier-flour turquoise tucked under a headwall in the Colorado high…

Glacier Flour Turquoise

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The East River in July — Gothic, Colorado. The East River winding through peak green season below Gothic, Colorado, with Gothic Mountain rising out of the…

The East River in July

Gothic, Colorado

White Orchid, Magenta Rain — Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver. White orchid petals splattered with deep magenta, floating against a background of green and…

White Orchid, Magenta Rain

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver

Worth the Dark Drive — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Dawn breaking hard over the Pawnee Buttes and the shortgrass, orange cloud burning off to one…

Worth the Dark Drive

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

Pink Rock, Orange Sky — Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sunrise at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from a high spot among…

Pink Rock, Orange Sky

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Warm Light, Frozen Lake — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. First light working down the cliffs above The Loch while the lake stays locked under…

Warm Light, Frozen Lake

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Crown Hill on Fire — Crown Hill Park, Colorado. Sunset tearing across the sky over Crown Hill Park in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, with bare cottonwoods standing…

Crown Hill on Fire

Crown Hill Park, Colorado

Frost on the Willows — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. Frost still hanging on the willows while a mountain creek slides through the last of the fall color at…

Frost on the Willows

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

The Lookout Holds Its Post — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. An old fire lookout holding its post on a Colorado summit while the sky burns crimson and…

The Lookout Holds Its Post

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

Gold Against the Spruce — Kenosha Pass, Colorado. Aspens at full color pushing up between dark spruce at Kenosha Pass, with a hillside of the same running…

Gold Against the Spruce

Kenosha Pass, Colorado

Where the Cliff Says Stop — Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado. Aspens running gold and orange right up to the point where the cliff band says stop.

Where the Cliff Says Stop

Abyss Lake Trail, Colorado

The Boston Mine in Twilight — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The old Boston Mine cabins sitting quiet under the Tenmile cirque at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado,…

The Boston Mine in Twilight

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Windless at Berkeley Lake — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Sunset streaks doubling up on a windless Berkeley Lake in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, the whole sky repeated…

Windless at Berkeley Lake

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

A Cloud the Size of a County — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. A lenticular cloud the size of a county turning orange over the Front Range foothills at…

A Cloud the Size of a County

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado

First Sun Up the Ridge — Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. First light working down the ridge above an alpine lake while the water and the near shore are…

First Sun Up the Ridge

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

Sunflowers to the Horizon — Gothic, Colorado. Aspen sunflowers stacked all the way to the horizon under Gothic Mountain outside Crested Butte, Colorado.

Sunflowers to the Horizon

Gothic, Colorado

Cold Enough to Make Weather — Silverthorne, Colorado. Steam rising off a Colorado river into the first light of a bitterly cold morning, backlit into a wall…

Cold Enough to Make Weather

Silverthorne, Colorado

A Two Week Sprint — Lake Dillon, Colorado. Big Summit County sky over the first hints of gold around Lake Dillon, aspens turning while the spruce hold their…

A Two Week Sprint

Lake Dillon, Colorado

Yucca and Gold Horizon — Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. Yucca holding the foreground while the Pawnee Buttes sit on the horizon under a sky that would…

Yucca and Gold Horizon

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

The Window the Miners Used — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The Tenmile cirque at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado framed by a cabin window that lost its glass more…

The Window the Miners Used

Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

Flat on My Back in the Leaves — Nederland. Flat on my back in the leaf litter looking straight up the trunks of an aspen grove at peak gold against a hard…

Flat on My Back in the Leaves

Crystal Mill in Deep Green — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The Crystal Mill surrounded by full summer green, the river running clear and loud through the…

Crystal Mill in Deep Green

Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado

Bighorns on the Gorge Rim — Rio Grande Gorge, Taos, New Mexico. Two bighorn sheep standing on the sagebrush rim of the Rio Grande Gorge outside Taos while…

Bighorns on the Gorge Rim

Rio Grande Gorge, Taos, New Mexico

Bare Branches, Burning Sky — City Park, Denver. A bare winter cottonwood standing in the foreground while the sun drops straight behind the downtown Denver…

Bare Branches, Burning Sky

City Park, Denver

Fireweed at First Light — Idaho Springs, Colorado. Fireweed exploding magenta along a mountainside above Idaho Springs, Colorado, with spruce silhouettes…

Fireweed at First Light

Idaho Springs, Colorado

Standing Under the Lights — Sterling, Colorado. A figure standing on an empty dirt road outside Sterling while green and magenta aurora runs across the…

Standing Under the Lights

Sterling, Colorado

From Up Here the Traffic Is a Rumor — Clear creek canyon. A Colorado highway threading the canyon floor far below under a fresh dusting of snow, juniper and…

From Up Here the Traffic Is a Rumor

Clear creek canyon

Willows Turn First — Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. The willows turning gold along the shoreline while the lake still holds its summer blue, with the…

Willows Turn First

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

The Geese Commute Home — City Park, Denver. Geese crossing Ferril Lake at City Park while downtown Denver melts into a gold sunset behind the boathouse.

The Geese Commute Home

City Park, Denver

The Best Office in Colorado — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. An old stone fire lookout perched on a jumble of summit rock with the sky burning behind it…

The Best Office in Colorado

Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado