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A landscape photographer's tour
Keith's travels in the Colorado Rockies - September-October 2008
In the Steamboat Springs area
A quick drive up to Steamboat lake and the Hahn's Peak area - no shortage of fall colours.| This photo-diary covers a driving tour around the Colorado Rockies in the Fall (September/October 2008).
Although my third visit to the state, it's actually the first time I've been in Colorado at this time of the year. A good year for the Fall colours. There are also photo-journals on this site covering a 2006 trip to Colorado and two to the Pacific coast.. There are lots of excellent photo books by people who've had a bit more time to look round than I have, such as this one by John Fielder... (lots of places I didn't get to). |
Since I'm not on my own, it's a bit more of a road trip and not quite so heavily phototgraphy oriented as before ;-) That said, I'm getting some excellent photos and look forward to creating some great new prints, black and white as well as colour.
Colorado is a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip round the state to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.
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This morning we took a short drive North of Steamboat Springs, up to Steamboat lake and Hahn's Peak
The cottonwoods give an idea of the colours to expect.
Lines of them along rivers and creeks
With Aspens on the hillsides
Not much further on I was pleased to that one of the more enlightened local residents was still around.
This photo is actually from my last visit - this time there was someone in a checked shirt and wearing a hat standing nearby, so I decided not to pass the time of the day or photograph them...
Further on we had to slow down for a car having difficulty with an incline.
The pic is with the GX200 through the windscreen, the larger one below is a (sharpened) 100% crop
One to keep for all those that say I should wash my car more often (it rains frequently enough for my liking)
How to build a log cabin...
When pulling off the road to take photos, I do have to remember to give Karen advance warning - particularly if it's not going to be a good idea for her to try and get out of that side of the car ;-)
The colours really are quite impressive.
- When I'm looking at making prints of any of these pictures, I'm going to be very careful with the colour management. There are colours in the image below that are out of gamut for the A98 colour space and my monitor, but can be printed.
And some more...
Just to remind people, this is what it looks like in the Spring
but today, the sun is out...
The two images above are taken with the GX200 (64ISO RAW)
The Eye patterns on the Aspen trunks vary across the State, with differing types of Aspen
...and some more
It's a bit more cloud today.
After getting back to Steamboat, we went up to the Ski Village in Steamboat, where there appears to be considerable reconstruction going on.
There are also some 'traffic circles' (or roundabouts as we call them)
These should always be approached with caution in the US, since they are uncommon enough that you can expect a significant number of people not to yeild (give way) when approaching them.
The building style in parts of the 'Ski Village' is somewhat reminiscent of 1970's Eastern European 'Concrete'. No statues of Lenin hailing a cab here though.
Presumably a dusting of snow helps alleviate some of the drabness :-)
Guess I won't be staying here for the skiing
Tomorrow it's heading south...
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