I haven’t posted for quite some time, and an entire summer has passed without me capturing any new images. I am going through some of my old image files and scanning my old film. Here are some images from a trip to Colorado during the summer of 2014.
These 2, above, were shot at a pull off on the way to a ghost town called St. Elmo. I spotted a little brown sign on the side of the road that read, “Cascade Falls”. I asked my friend to pull over so that I could see if there was a photo op. This is what I got. Looking back on it, I was a little stupid. In order to capture these images, I jumped onto a large rock in the middle of the torrent. Not only was the water moving very fast, it is from frigid snow melt.
This is Summit Lake Park, elevation: 12,830 ft., just below Mt. Evans, elevation: 14,265 ft. I was there at the end of July, and the lake was still frozen.
On the way up to Boreas Pass, we stopped along the road. I scrambled out on a ledge and captured these images. In the second image, this tree must have been a home for the squirrel. You can tell by its tail being straight out and the hair standing on end that this little creature was not happy. I wish that I could have recorded the noise it was raising. The whole time that I was on that ledge, the scene where Chevy Chase is attacked by the squirrel caught in his Christmas tree, from the movie Christmas Vacation, kept playing in my head.
For those of you who know that I am a hat wearing kind of guy, I did not put that hat on that stump. It was already there, when we reached the top of Boreas Pass.