A Pre-Dawn Panorama of Denver-Boulder

Boulder-Denver, pre-dawn. Sugarloaf Mountain, Colorado, 2014

How many of these panoramas do I have now? A bunch, for sure.

Whenever I am up on Sugarloaf Mountain for sunrise, I can’t seem to resist making yet another image of the scene even though I don’t really know how it will fit into my slowly emerging portfolio.

It’s always interesting, to me, to note the difference between the many lights out on the flats (metro Boulder-Denver) and the few lights in the rural foothills below (Sugarloaf area). Even more curious is the short, thin line of white connecting Denver to Boulder (center of image)–that is the morning “train” of commuters coming in to Boulder for work.

I guess what I find interesting is that contrast between the crowded world of humans in the distance, and the more solitary world of Nature in my more immediate, quiet, surroundings.