Colorado in the fall
A landscape photographer's tour

Keith's travels in the Colorado Rockies - September-October 2008
Fall Colors / Autumn leaves

Part 1 - Travelling out to Denver

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.

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

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.

What's the weather like? National Weather Service radar Geological maps Webcams What are the roads like? (CO)	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

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

27th September >>28th September >>29th September >>30th September>>1st October>>2nd October>>3rd October>>4th October>>5th October>>6th October>>7th October>>8th October>>9th October>>10th October>>11th October>>12th October>>13th October>>14th October

Other travel blogs

Fall 2010 - Visit to the USA, Pacific Northwest	'Cascade Colours' from Keith's Autumn 2007 visit to Oregon/Washington
The North Californian coast - part of Keith's April 2007 tour	The photo above is a sample from Keith's photo-diary of his 2006 visit to Colorado