NY Times Colorado IndependentEuro-mania …
Centuries-old castle walls serve as a backdrop for river runners in Český Krumlov.
FRISCO — I usually try to keep the intros for the daily photo essays pretty short and let the pictures speak for themselves, and that works pretty well for this short set with some of my favorite European city scenes. (more…)
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Camera play
Sunday morning, down at the end of our street.
FRISCO — A few shots and edits from the weekend … (more…)
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Snowy bliss
Shooting into the sun can be dicey, but sometimes it’s worth the try.
FRISCO — I’m still shorting through shots from our early May snowstorm and working up a few edits of the iPhone and DSLR shots, including the top image, which is literally a roadside view right here in our Frisco neighborhood, if you know where to look. I used an iPhone for the scene, but instead of using an Instagram filter to try and lighten up the foreground, I ran it through the iPhoto program on my laptop to try and preserve some of the snoothness that gets lost in Instagram sometimes. The rest of the images were all taken with the Nikon. (more…)
Filed under: Morning photo, photography, seasons, snow, Summit County Colorado, Summit County snow and weather | Tagged: Frisco Colorado, May snowstorm, Summit County Colorado, Tenmile Creek | 1 Comment »
It’s May already, right?
Dusk light over Peak One, Frisco, Colorado
FRISCO — It doesn’t take long after the snow stops falling for the melting to begin. That’s just the nature of the season. By early May, the sun is strong, so as soon as the clouds lift, it starts to happen. I look for for puddles on the edge of Dillon Reservoir for a good dose of reflection, and here’s how it looked the last few days. (more…)
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Bonus powder
Fence line.
FRISCO —I never thought I’d be shooting snowscapes in early May, but then again, living at 9,000 feet in the Colorado high country, you just never know. At this point, it can’t even be billed as the last storm, with the National Weather Service forecasting a chance of more unsettled weather next week. Of course, cool conditions in late spring aren’t unprecedented. Old-timers will remember Cinco de Mayo powder days at A-Basin and even Breckenridge back in the 1980s. A wet spring often helps ease Colorado out one of its periodic droughts. In any case Frisco was sparkling Thursday morning. Here’s what it looked like. (more…)
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Spring … or winter?
Moon set over the Gore Range.
FRISCO — With measurable snowfall on almost half the days in April, it felt a bit more like winter than spring in Summit County — although there were a few balmy days just to hint at the season ahead. And all in all, it ended up being a good month for photography, with a great moon set, some wonderfully snowy scenes (that April snow really sticks to everything) and even some great closeups of nesting ospreys … (more…)
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meltdown …
A stand of aspens is partially submerged by a spring snowmelt pond near the Meadow Creek trailhead in Frisco, Colorado.
SUMMIT COUNTY —At long last, the melt season has started in the Colorado high country, nearly a month later than last year. As it goes in the mountains, things change in a hurry once it warms up. Tender green sprouts shoot up at the edge of crusty snowbanks, sometimes growing an inch per day. There’s not a lot of time — at 10,000 feet, most plants have to reach flowering stage within just a couple of months. Springtime in the Rockies! (more…)
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Magnificant hawks are back for the summer
Osprey soaring.
FRISCO — Along with the well-known osprey nest along Highway 9 in Silverthorne, the majestic hawks have also set up housekeeping at several spots along the shoreline of Dillon Reservoir, building sturdy stick nests atop fragile looking beetle-killed lodgepole pines. (more…)
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A little photo-foolin’
Winter dreams.
FRISCO — I hope these images don’t come as too much of a shock to readers who are used to seeing traditional landscapes in this space. But after about a year, I re-opened the PS Express app on my iPhone after updating it and found all sorts of groovy new features that I had to play with. PS Express is the Photoshop iPhone app, and while some of these effects are questionable for photojournalism, others could come in handy at the right time. The point is, get to know the tools you have available; that way, you’ll know how to use them when you need them.
Slightly swirled rose, edited in PS Express, the iPhone Photoshop app.
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First snow, last snow …
Mt. Guyot sunlit above the shadows after one of the last snows of the season.
FRISCO —A little mix and match in today’s photo essay, with some shots from one of the last snowstorms of the season juxtaposed against early season snow images. It may just be that time of year, but the light feels a little warmer in late April than it does in October, but the feeling it evokes is similar. And while we may not have had the best snow season, it’s worth remembering that the storminess began more than seven months ago, and may well go into May, which would be month eight. Just sayin … (more…)
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