A couple days ago I borrowed a 70-200 f/2.8L IS and took it on a mini road trip west on I-70 (yuck), hanging a south at Copper and going up and over Fremont Pass to Leadville and, further down the road, Buena Vista. The roads were fine but there was still quite a bit up snow up above 10,000 feet so I didn't get off the main roads much at all. Come early summer, I'll definitely be heading back up there to shoot the purdy flowers and also to get some of those cookies at the bakery in Leadville.
Turn that horse around!
I could live here:
What I would like to know is why Colorado didn't get the Big Sky title.
I mean, it's really big.
Was I happy driving through the mountains on a quiet road with the windows down and the music up? HEY-ull yesh. What made me less happy, however, was looking at these images when I got home. Just. Wasn't. That. Happy with them. But then I got Told, and turns out the mountains are still there, and I can go back and try again, which is nice. One of these days, I would like to recreate a road trip I took about 5 (gosh) years ago with Forest Service Guy (FSG not included, necessarily). We loaded up his truck with not much more than beer and fly rods, and headed down the same stretch of highway, camping and fishing along the river as we went. We ended up staying near Pagosa for a few days (The Incident of the Snowshoe Swim comes to mind) and turned west to southern Utah, camping near Canyonlands before hiking all my (secret) favorite spots near Moab and canoeing a decent stretch of the Colorado River, finally and reluctantly heading back to civilization via I-70 to Boulder, where I found that I had accumulated 10 days worth of parking tickets, which remain unpaid and outstanding.
Well then. Thank you for indulging me that trip down memory lane.
Oh, something else: I changed my blog settings so that I have to approve comments, because about 6 jack-asses called "Cheap Van Insurance" and "Detox Your Spleen Tomorrow" had to go and ruin things by posting spam on, of all posts, the one about Bones' passing away. I mean srsly. So just so you know, it's nothing personal; it's just those advertising dip-shits that I have to force into submission. Comment away, dear loyal readers (BOTH of you) and I shall approve. :)
5 comments:
Just had to say, I sure enjoyed these pictures. A. and I drove through Leadville a few times on road trips and I still remember the big big spaces.
Gorgeous photos! I would love to go to Colorado. The sky, the mountains... it's so beautiful!
I'm not sure why you weren't happy with these. I think they're great. I like the perspective of the railroad ones. I like love the colors of the "I could live here" one and the big sky ones. And of course, the sun flare. :)
I love 96! The sky in that photo is just magnificent.
One of my good friends grew up in Colorado and she told me that most people think it's the mountains that she misses. She said it's the sky - that vast feeling of all of that space over head. I'll send her a link to these photos to help feed her nostalgia!
All the shots are gorgeous!
Yeah, I liked the sky as well.
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