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...
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...
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...
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...
The San Juans from Dallas Divide, Colorado
One of the most glorious Autumn views in Colorado is the San Juan Mountains from Dallas Divide, a mountain pass above the ranching and tourist town of Ridgway (that"s how it"s spelled). Extensive stands of Aspen trees in vibrant yellow and orange grow in the prairies...
Raw Material
The images in this website are all original photographs I have taken in over 35 years in Colorado. I am now branching out into what is called photo-art, taking the original file and transforming through digital tools into an image created rather than just rendered; in...
Fog in the Forest
When I first came to California in the 60s, I settled in the Bay Area and went to school at the University of California/Berkeley. On my days off, I traveled around the coast and into the fog, fascinated by the effect of the mist in motion on the scenes in front...
Bouquet on the Rocks
Above the mountain hamlet of Montezuma near Keystone, Colorado, I drove up this rough mining road that dead-ended at a meadow beyond a small stream.My girl friend got out of my Jeep and walked to the stream so the dogs could have a drink. Suddenly she yelled at me to...
Crystal River Mill
The remains of the old mill on Crystal River in the Central Rockies near Marble is Colorado Icon, representing the mining legacy of the 19th century. Built in 1892, the mill was actually what would be termed today a mini-hydro plant, generating electricity in a remote...
Aspen, San Juan Mountains from Dallas Divide, Colorado
The Aspen fence in this iconic photograph taken in 1987 is no longer there, having been replaced by a barbed wire fence to keep hunters off private property. The highway turnout on Dallas Divide from which thousands of pictures have been taken, was closed to all but...