Archive for June, 2017
Historic Close-ups
Museums are great places to take your camera, if they let you … not all museums do. So when an exclusive opportunity arose for a photo club trip to the local, ‘Museum of the Mountain West’ I was in. Because it was in the middle of a bright, sunny day I decided ahead of time […]
Filed under: Antiques, Macro Photography, Photography | 44 Comments
Tags: antiques, artifacts, close-up, details, macro photography, museum, old, old fashioned
Water’s Draw
It was always my dream to live on a mountain lake but as it turns out I am perfectly happy to have some nearby. “I’d rather live on a mountain lake than along the ocean,” I’d say. For me lakes are more relaxing than the sometimes harsh and exposed conditions of the seashore. I do […]
Filed under: Colorado, Landscape Photography | 44 Comments
Tags: kayak, lake, landscape, mountain, reservoir, snow, spring, water
In Search Of Spring Green
After a long and snowy winter I went searching for some spring green and below is some of what I found. There’s a short window when the foliage and grasses have that beautiful and bright, yellow-green color and I wanted to capture it. This year, late snow left a nice fresh coat of white on […]
Filed under: Colorado, Landscape Photography | 44 Comments
Tags: Colorado, Colorado Photography, green, mountains, prints, San Juan Mountains, snow-capped, spring
Lovely Lupines
The lupines are blooming in the forest beside our house so I dusted off my macro lens and headed into the woods. Finding some lovely clusters beneath the trees I chose carefully for shape and background. It was more difficult than I had remembered … wrestling with my tripod height, getting down low and then […]
Filed under: Flowers, Photography | 34 Comments
Tags: close-up, lupine, lupines, lupinus, macro photography, nature, wildflower
