A landscape photographer's tour

Keith's travels in the Colorado Rockies - September-October 2008

Salida to Frisco

A big change in the weather - it's starting to snow.

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.

	Daily pages 27th Sept.: to Denver 28th Sept.: Estes Park 29th Sept.: Rocky Mountain National Park 30th Sept.: Grand lake to Steamboat Springs 1st Oct: Steamboat Lake 2nd Oct: Steamboat to Leadville 3rd Oct: Leadville to Aspen 4th Oct: Aspen and Castle Creek 5th Oct: Aspen to Ouray 6th Oct: Telluride
What's the weather like? National Weather Service radar Geological maps Webcams What are the roads like? (CO)	7th Oct: Durango via Silverton 8th Oct: Durango to Gunnison 9th Oct: Ohio Pass 10th Oct: Gunnison to Salida 11th Oct: Salida to Frisco 12th Oct: Loveland Pass 13th Oct: Via Mt Evans (almost) 14th Oct: Flying home

A short blog today since it rained/snowed for a lot of the journey - I've added additional pictures, that Karen took whilst we were driving.

This is the hill with a big 'S' on it, near to Salida and its charming gravel works.

Salida S

It's a common site, letters on hillsides in the US - something to do with colleges mostly :-)

We headed north out of Salida.

The peaks in the first picture are part of the Collegiate range (Yale, Princeton etc)

collegiate peaks

The second shot is looking more to the west.

west of Salida

From a photography point of view, I'll take a sky like this in preference to a clear blue one, most days :-)

The picture below was taken through the car window with the GX200.

tree and storm

By the time we got to Fairplay, it was time for a snack at the Brown Burro.

The people in camouflage gear (except the hat) are just off hunting... (far be it for me to take picture of groups of people in the US, just because they conform to our UK stereotypes ;-) )

off huntin'

Afterwards, the weather got worse :-)

snowy road in Colorado

Lots of snow was forecast...

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