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A landscape photographer's tour

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

Travelling out to Denver

This time I'm travelling with Karen and we're leaving the UK via Manchester, which is a new route for me.

This photo-diary covers a driving trip around the Colorado Rockies in 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. 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 driving tour and not quite so heavily phototgraphy oriented as before ;-) That said, I'm getting some excellent shots and look forward to creating some great new prints over the next few months. I'll also be using quite a lot of the images for some of the many new reviews I'm writing later this year.

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 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

What's the weather like? National Weather Service radar Geological maps

Webcams What are the roads like? (CO)

As ever a coffee before leaving...

It's only a couple of hours from home to this airport so no need to get up at 3am this time :-)

Now it just happens that I've got two cameras with me on this trip.

My normal Canon 1Ds mk3 and the new Ricoh GX200.

The GX200 is on loan from Ricoh for a review I'll be writing when I get back (I reviewed the very nice GX100 last year)

The pics on this page are from the GX200. Below is some of my reading matter for the trip, the GX200 manual. For once I read most of the manual for a camera I'm using :-)

Meanwhile Karen was reading bridal and wedding magazines - to get inspiration for her bridal jewellery business.

Anyway, not a terribly good trip (from a view out of the window point of view)

...but here's Chicago O'Hare airport, just before we landed.

Below, some detail. Both images have been stretched in contrast quite a bit, since it was hazy, and the shot is through a less than optically perfect plane window.

No interesting views on the way to Denver, but we're here, with a suitably large car for driving round the mountains :-)

>> Next Day >> Into the mountains

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