GJ Landscape

En route back to Breckenridge from Silverton there are several different routes to take, and trust me I've taken them all.  The easiest and fastest from my experience is to head north on HWY 550 and meet up with I-70 in Clifton or Grand Junction.  Worn out and tired this is the route I chose.  I've passed through here easily 1000+ times in my 18 years living in Colorado.  I've always though that this section of the Book Cliffs is really an amazing zone.  I've wanted to stop countless times but usually am on some kind of a time restraint and can't do it.  Pulling in around 6pm this day the light was looking really cool and decided I had more than enough time to stop.  So I thought I knew how to access the area I wanted to get into and shoot some photos of, but it turns out I was wrong.  Non the less, I was able to get to where you see below in the photos.  By the time I found the access to where I wanted to go the light was fading and it was time to just keep on truckin home.  Until next time, enjoy.....

Editing Blues

What can I say.  I hate editing photos.  I hate being on the computer.  It's probably sunny and beautiful out right now, but I wouldn't know because I'm stuck in my dungeon editing away.  When I edit, I get distracted very easily.  Whether it be the internet, an e-mail, the TV or even a bathroom break, I find my self doing anything BUT editing.  This double exposure is a classic example of how my mind wanders when I edit.  One second I'm actually editing in Lightroom and the next I'm creating this double exposure in Photoshop.  I just can't stay focused, especially when it gets to this time of the year and I'm just over winter.  I'd rather be out and about in the mountains or on the river in the desert.  Well this double exposure is the best of both worlds and must have been what I was day dreaming about while trying to get through the last of my photos from this past winter.  Enjoy!

On the road again....again

One day at home and I already got the itch to get back out there.  I love life on the road.  Not just traveling, but literally life on the road.  I actually hate to fly.  Not because I'm scared of it or anything, I just hate the hassle of it all.  Security checks.  Lost luggage.  The list goes on and on.  I also love the American Southwest.  It has always intrigued me.  All the warm and cool colors, old  abandoned junk and of course the open road.  There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world.  I happened upon this old train just as the sun was going down and the light was just what any photographer looks for.  I pulled over for a pit stop to remind me why I love both the American Southwest and the open road that runs through it.

I've wanted to shoot this mine/power plant structure at night for some years now.  This is about an hour down the road from the train shots.