Along the Ptarmigan Trail …
FRISCO — For the last sunrise of 2012, I wandered up the Ptarmigan Trail, near Silverthorne. Since I’m trying to be cautious about how much fossil fuel I consume, I don’t often drive all the across the county for a morning walk. There are plenty of places nearby that the dogs and I enjoy, but when I saw the mid-level clouds drifting over the valleys, I wanted to get somewhere high enough to have a good vantage point. Almost every trek to the Ptarmigan Trail has yielded some high quality images, in any season, Monday’s sunrise didn’t disappoint. The light was a bit murky at first, but when the sun broke through and started illuminating the peaks, it was pure magic.
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I don’t shoot all that many vertical landscapes, but I really wanted to get the moon into this frame. It’s still quite high in the sky and seems (to me) to be disconnected from the rest of the image, but there it is.

The clouds on the eastern horizon were quite thick, but waiting around for a while paid off, as the sun finally broke through, only for a few minutes, to paint the foreground with buttery light.
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