With the deciduous leaves freezing into brown, blowing and whipping about, and dropping from the trees in the high country, it’s time to dip down in elevation to follow the gold.
Boulder Canyon and the high plains around Boulder are in their prime right now.
From a photo outing yesterday with my buddy Dana Bove, here are a few images from one of our favorite haunts, Sawhill Ponds…
At the last minute, the sun poked out from between the clouds and the mountains for just a few, very short, minutes. You have to work fast when you get the good light:
Here is a telephoto view to play with the compression of perspective. On the left and above treeline, you can see the Arapaho Glacier (or what remains of it) just below the South and North Arapaho Peaks which are holding up the clouds. Many of the remaining summits of the Indian Peaks Wilderness are spread out to the right along the the Continental Divide. Most of the aspen up high have lost their leaves now (note the recent dusting of snow up there), but Sawhill Ponds, down near 5,000′, seemed to be peaking:
Often, flipping an image upside down is considered gimmicky. Perhaps in this case also, but I liked the strange, surreal, effect in this particular composition:
The nearby electrical lines seemed to be lighting up the clouds:
Finally, I am always looking for unusual abstracts that work well in monochrome. This one will challenge the viewer for sure–perhaps too much:
