Color Gamut on Bear Peak

Changing weather and changing color throughout the morning on a darkness-to-sunrise climb of Bear Peak this morning with good friend and fellow photographer, Jim D, visiting from “yeah-but-it’s-a-dry-heat Arizona”.

Two very different examples…

The subtle light and color at sunrise:

South Boulder Peak and Mt. Evans. From Bear Peak, Boulder, Colorado, 2015

And…an alternate way to capture the more dramatic color and the essence of “the burn” that occurred in 2012 just below the summit. (It was called the Flagstaff Fire but, IMHO, should have been called the Bear Mountain Fire.) I used a 1/10 second shutter speed and shifted the camera vertically during the exposure, experimenting with various rates of movement:

The Burn. Bear Peak, Boulder, Colorado, 2015