How to decorate your walls with Colorado photography
To create an ambience in your home or office, start with the walls. When you enter a room and stand, the first thing that catches your eye is the wall in front of you. You see what is at eye level. If the wall is blank, it loses your attention. But if the wall has a...
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The Stewards of our Public Lands
For almost 40 years, the United States Forest Service (USFS), has been underfunded by the U.S.Congress. Spanning millions of acres all across the country, this sprawling government agency is entrusted to take care of America's backyard. Every administration since 1980...
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Colorado Prints
After 27 years on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, I closed my photo gallery COLORADO SCENICS in November of 2017. The gallery scene in the town had faded - from over 16 galleries of all types to just 4 when I left. I sold, with my employees, a lot of framed and...
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The Back Bowls of Vail
Vail is the largest ski area by acreage in the United States. In North Americs, only Whistler/Blackcomb is larger. The world famous Back Bowls are "in the back", behind the groomed ski runs on the front side above the bases and the Village of Vail. The other side of...
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Garden of the Gods
One of the most visited scenes in Colorado is an extensive group of red sandstone formations known as Garden of the Gods - monoliths towering above the green Juniper trees. The Colorado Springs city park lies at the very edge of the Great Plains below the 8,000'...
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Breckenridge, Ski Hill, Ski Town, Colorado
Breckenridge. When I think of what skiing is in Colorado, I think of this long chain of connected peaks battered by the North wind and plastered with deep powder snow. In the photograph above, Breckenridge is seen in the distance from another great, but less famous...
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Jeep Trip from Ouray in the SanJuan Mountains
Given a choice between an overnight backpacking trip or a 3 hour drive in a Jeep to a trailhead deep in the mountains, I'll take the Jeep. I like a higher starting point for hiking with my camera. I'm not lazy, I need to get to the scene as fast and easily as possible...
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White Out
Skiing on Aspen Mountain Ski Area,, I almost hit a tree I could't see. I was hurtling down the ski run at least 40 miles per hour when a layer of fog suddenly closed in on me. The widely spaced trees suddenly became invisible, and all I could think about was not...
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Maroon Bells above Aspen, Colorado with heavy snow still on the peaks in June
The Maroon Bells, a world famous pair of 14,000" mountains above Aspen, Colorado, are normally bereft of the solid white layers of heavy Winter snows by the month of June. In this photo, the snow is still there on the first of June, on Memorial Day...
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Sapphire Point facing Buffalo Peak above Lake Dillon, Colorado
Sapphire Point overlooking Lake Dillon, Colorado, faces two different mountain ranges - to the West, the Ten Mile, and to the Northwest, the Gore. Interstate 70 passes in the canyon between them, on the way to Copper Mountain Ski Resort. In the featured photo, Buffalo...
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