These are three very different landscape images that I shot in Rocky Mountain National Park this summer. The image above is a tight shot of a lodge-pole pine stand. This image is a bit serendipitous. I was standing around with my supertelephoto waiting for a pica to come out from under a rock when I noticed the cool-looking light playing on the trees across the valley. A few moments to find a pleasing arrangement of trees and light (and a little work on the black and white conversion in Photoshop) and voila. Though it’s not readily apparent in this images, several of the trees in this photo were killed by pine beetles. It will be a very different park in a few years without the lodge poles . As always click for a larger version/slide show.
This is a blended exposure of a sunrise near the Gore Range Overlook. I like the stacked ridges in this image.
This is the Gore Range from the Gore Range Overlook. Pretty, but I’m am ambivalent about the composition.
