Colorado Landscape

Hey everyone just now having the time to spend a little on the canon forums. Stoked to be back! Here is a photo I took at piney lake near Vail, Colorado.

Beautiful picture. I'm just now going thru my Colorado vacation pics and always interested in others photos. good work.

Pretty spectacular scenery here in the fall, I've made 3 consecutive fall trips to Kebler Pass, and 2 to the San Juan Mountains, I'm sure I'll do another one next fall. Here is a fairly conventional shot from Kebler Pass about 10 days ago.

WOW that is some beautiful color and scenery. Amazing.

ddk632 wrote in post #15097113
WOW that is some beautiful color and scenery. Amazing.

On behalf of Colorado, thanks. As I told my brother when he came out last week from Minnesota for a little hiking and photography - We really have great raw material to work with out here.

Colorado is indeed beautiful.

Snapped this last night!

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …stinkoppstein/8​070177862/

patrick j wrote in post #15097180
On behalf of Colorado, thanks.

Funny. I am actually coming out to Boulder for a business trip at the end of November, and will be bringing my camera gear and ski gear. Looking forward to it, and will stay a few extra days to ski and do some Colorado photography.

ddk632 wrote in post #15101809


Funny. I am actually coming out to Boulder for a business trip at the end of November, and will be bringing my camera gear and ski gear. Looking forward to it, and will stay a few extra days to ski and do some Colorado photography.

I think photography is more difficult in the winter, or maybe I don't know what I'm doing, anyway, I don't seem to get much in the winter.

patrick j wrote in post #15101957
I think photography is more difficult in the winter, or maybe I don't know what I'm doing, anyway, I don't seem to get much in the winter.

It's beautiful though. I take a photo backpack with tripod attached, put all that over my ski gear, head to the highest back-mountain double black diamond run I can find, and usually pull off somewhere in the middle of it and setup.

Unfortunately it's been a while since I live in Florida now, but I have a bunch of film negatives I've started scanning from Canada (Whistler and Banff) and Mammoth in California with some great shots. I love mountain landscapes in the winter.

So as such I'm looking forward to this trip because it'll be my first time skiing with my DSLR gear, but not my first time skiing with photo gear.

EDIT: And CPL and ND filters are your friend because it's easy to make snow blown out, and also depends on the conditions of the sky; if it's snowing or sunny, etc.

ddk632 wrote in post #15103677
It's beautiful though. I take a photo backpack with tripod attached, put all that over my ski gear, head to the highest back-mountain double black diamond run I can find, and usually pull off somewhere in the middle of it and setup.

Part of my problem in winter is limited access to the good stuff. Skiing would help with that problem, but I'm a non-skier.

My wife and I have just spent four days in and around Ouray. It was our first visit to Colorado and we loved it. I haven't processed any of my DSLR images yet, but I did take a couple of panoramas with my phone...

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/julianhj/807274​7548/

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/julianhj/807275​3041/

great photos you have =)

patrick j wrote in post #15104254
Part of my problem in winter is limited access to the good stuff. Skiing would help with that problem, but I'm a non-skier.

I don't ski any more, but the one thing about winter is that the sun rises that much later so I don't have to get up at 4am and still catch the sunrise. The other thing is that there are more clouds in the morning sky than the typical (but not all) summer sunrises. All that and the cooler air makes for much nicer sunrise shots.

What I do it go up into the front range parks after a snowfall. There are a lot of good spots within 60-90 minutes (drive + hike) of Denver/FC/CS.

I guess it's not exactly high peak photography though.

OTOH, a pair of snowshoes would go a long way. For instance you can get up to Guenella Pass and hike. Flat/square top (whatever it is called) is great. You do need some decent winter gear though. It can get cold at dawn at 13,000ft.

It's harder and harder to get out with the kids growing up and having so much on the weekends, but we got up to Estes mid September just before the peak. The aspen forests are great. Blue gold and green is nice, but I do miss the more multicolored falls I grew up with (in the UK).

ejenner wrote in post #15115751
What I do it go up into the front range parks after a snowfall. There are a lot of good spots within 60-90 minutes (drive + hike) of Denver/FC/CS.

I guess it's not exactly high peak photography though.

I do sometimes get out, one of my favorite pictures came from a winter climb of Grizzly Peak D (below) a couple of winters ago, but those are kind of tough days. I do want to try to get out more this winter, my photography grinds to a halt in the winter, want to put a stop to that. (you've got some nice stuff up there on flickr, btw).

Lost some resolution due to cropping, that fuzzy stuff is snow streaming off the side.