Long times

It's been a long time since I posted anything which is why I show a very very old image here. My absence was triggered by one of the worst perfect storms of hard work at my science job with a three-year on-site review and associated proposal to prepare. That took a few years out of my life.


Angles. Buy a print.
Boring tech data: Nikon D50, Nikkor 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 at 50 mm, f/10, 1/500s, ISO 200
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This image was taken July 21 of 2007 and developed in Lightroom 4.1 RC2. As I am sure is true for many photographers, I have many images lurking in my library that I have never shown off before nor adequately processed. This image was taken when I was getting some instructions on large format camera use from a friend. I also took along a DSLR which is what I used to take the above image. Both types of camera have their use and enforce very different styles of picture taking. The 4x5 large format camera that we used that day has far better technical quality when used correctly than the old 6MP D50 I used for the above picture but what matters really of course is the image itself. I like the lines and angles in this image.

Glassy

Yesterday's Sunset at Lake of Glass. Buy a print.
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D300, ISO 200, Tokina 11-16 at 11mm, f/14, 1/13s. Handheld 3-stop grad ND.

Went on a little snowshoe hike up to Lake of Glass in RMNP yesterday evening. Was a blast. More to follow.

Another angle

On the tree


Sweeping. Buy a print.
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8 at 11 mm, f/13, 1/100s, ISO 200.
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An outerworldly glow

Panorama assembled from 25 images (3 rows of 5). Individual shots using D300, Nikkor 35 mm f/1.8 DX at f/8.0, 1/40s, ISO 200.
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Sunset from a popular pullout along the road up to the top of Lookout Mountain and Buffalo Bill's grave. I had these lying around but never did much with them but decided to stitch them. The stitched image is 100 MP but that is only about half of the available resolution. The colors were really this strange at the time. You can see downtown Golden in the middle, the two table mountains, the buildings of the School of Mines, the Coors factory (between the two mesas) and the skyscrapers of downtown Denver towards the rightmost tree (probably not in the copies for the web though). Several years ago I shot a very similar dusk panorama on one of the very coldest evenings of the year that this should be compared to:



I wrote about that specific outing at the time as an example of how inspiring such outings into crazy weather can be. Surprisingly it is still online!

Clear Creek Canyon

Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8 at 11 mm, f/11, 1/30 s. Handheld and using a grad ND filter. Buy a print.
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This image was taken halfway up one of my favorite mountain biking trails - Chimney Gulch - right after windy saddle. I haven't been able to ride my bike for a while now because of the significant possibility I'd wreck the trails. On this evening I strapped on my snow shoes which is always really funny to do so close to the urban area. One of my reasons for this outing was to test out my new Gitzo tripod (awesome btw) but I shot this image handheld as an afterthought.