High Country Colorado
Sep 19, 2017 07:41:41 #
daplight
Loc: Kansas
Shot from the car, short on time but I want to return to this area and literally 'camp out, waiting through all the magic times of light throughout the day. I haven't been into landscape photography but when I saw the shadows across the hills in the foreground I was moved. Has anyone just 'focused' on one scene and waited? I would love to hear suggestions.
Sep 19, 2017 07:54:04 #
Sep 19, 2017 07:56:04 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
daplight wrote:
Shot from the car, short on time but I want to return to this area and literally 'camp out, waiting through all the magic times of light throughout the day. I haven't been into landscape photography but when I saw the shadows across the hills in the foreground I was moved. Has anyone just 'focused' on one scene and waited? I would love to hear suggestions.
If you move out here you will not need to campout. And many of us have had to wait minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and/or years for the right shot to occur.
Sep 19, 2017 08:31:23 #
That shot looks like where I grew up. I grew up in Grand County Colorado on the West side of Burthoud Pass 90 Miles NW of Denver. Nearly the only way out of the County was going over a mountain Pass. Gods country.
Sep 19, 2017 08:39:57 #
Sep 20, 2017 11:08:15 #
Very nice photo.
I have waited while fishing at O'Haver Lake near Salida, CO, for clouds to clear from Mt. Ouray so I could take a photograph. Sometimes the clouds dissipated and I got the photo. Sometimes not and I went home photo less of that particular view but usually fish for dinner. A win for me either way. The lake is at 9200 feet and offers a magnificent view of the mountain. To get closer to the mountain there is a road, Marshall Pass Road, that winds right past near the top of the mountain and down the other side to US Highway 50.
Dennis
I have waited while fishing at O'Haver Lake near Salida, CO, for clouds to clear from Mt. Ouray so I could take a photograph. Sometimes the clouds dissipated and I got the photo. Sometimes not and I went home photo less of that particular view but usually fish for dinner. A win for me either way. The lake is at 9200 feet and offers a magnificent view of the mountain. To get closer to the mountain there is a road, Marshall Pass Road, that winds right past near the top of the mountain and down the other side to US Highway 50.
Dennis
Sep 20, 2017 11:40:44 #
daplight
Loc: Kansas
Thanks of the comments. FYI, this was taken in Fremont County, approximately 20 miles out of Canyon City. I like the idea of moving out there but where? Real estate seems to be mushrooming. I especially love it around Salida and Gunnison, so do many others with money than me.
Sep 20, 2017 17:22:54 #
daplight wrote:
Thanks of the comments. FYI, this was taken in Fremont County, approximately 20 miles out of Canyon City. I like the idea of moving out there but where? Real estate seems to be mushrooming. I especially love it around Salida and Gunnison, so do many others with money than me.
I would have to make an educated guess that this is up Highway 9 to 39 mile mountain or thereabouts. I have killed some elk on the other side of that mountain. I used to own a ranch 10 miles up Highway 9 from Canon City, not Canyon City. I will be there in about a week.
Send me a PM if and when you are in the area again.
Dennis
Sep 21, 2017 01:10:21 #
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