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Stay-home dad. Photographer. Journalist. Geographer. Educator. Musician. Trail runner. Mountaineer. Extremely online. Here for the good vibes.
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Hello, happy Friday.

Here is an aerial image of the Sangre de Cristo Range snapped a few Novembers ago. Doubtful it has much snow on it currently.

#Mountainscape #WindowSeat #scape #Colorado #MoreSnowPlease
Aerial view of a snow capped mountain range cutting through an otherwise flat landscape.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Autumn autumning in Southwest Colorado near Telluride. Late September, 2025.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #Colorado #Fallorado
Autumn colors paint the hillsides as high peaks in the distance await their first coating of snow. Sky is overcast.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Not spooky but some blacks and vivid orange / red for your Oct. 31 consideration.

A sunrise over the Denver skyline, October 2017.

#skyline #sunrise #denver #colorado
Vivid orange / red sky against a city skyline.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It was chilly yesterday so I drove to a trail that gets sun and is usually less windy than my home trails.

Score. My time suffered because I was constantly taking photos of the pretty autumn colors.

Sure, gold aspens blanketing a rugged peak are great. But don’t sleep on autumn in the foothills.
An iPhone photo of some orange and brown and yellow oak trees and maybe some cottonwoods set in a valley in the foothills of Colorado near Denver.
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Parting view from an cancelled climb in the Sangre de Cristo Range. Started too late to have enough time to navigate through the snow that was piled DEEP in places.

#SafetyFirst #MountainMonday #Colorado #Hiking
A mountain covered in a dusting of fresh snow rising behind a cluster of conifer trees. Cloudy sky but still bits of blue sky to be seen.
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The Sierra Nevada from the Alabama Hills for #MountainMonday

Xoxoxoxo
A road leading to a wall of high mountains. Black and white image but the editing process intentionally left a bit of color on the road.
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Something autumnal for the #BlueSkyArtShow: an October hike with my son last year.

#Vertical #AutumnColors #ColorfulColorado #hiking
The sun shining through tall October aspen trees sporting a gold and orange autumn outfit. A small child is in the frame on the trail dwarfed by the tall trees.
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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When the aurora made an appearance at the low latitudes of Colorado May of 2024, I scrambled to get some photos.

Fairly mediocre, to be honest! But it made me happy to photograph them finally after seeing them for many winters living in the far north.

#aurora #glow #colorado #BlueSkyArtShow
A gradient of green to red aurora glow over a metal barn framed between two trees.
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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After climbing 3000 feet up a steep couloir, I decided to sit for a moment and take in the scenery.

(I’ve posted this before, but it works for the BSAS theme of #Relax )

iPhone photo from a late May climb in the Elk range a few years back.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Mountaineering #Alpinism #Mountains
Visible mountaineering boots and an ice axe help provide a sense of scale for a wide angle iPhone image looking down from the top of a long line of packed snow. A string of alpine lakes sit in the valley below. Lush green foliage covers the mountainsides and down valley more peaks rise in the distance.
October 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Early October at McClure Pass, Colorado. Not current conditions. I photographed this three years ago.

#Mountainscape #Colorado #Scape #AutumnColors
Autumn scene of a mountain valley. Fog mixes with trees starting to change colors. Snow coats the higher summits. A road twists through the scene.
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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It’s a little overcooked, tbh.
Two mountains dusted with snow framed by a lake and trees, some of which are changing into their autumn colors.
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Climbed up this big stack of rocks over the weekend. Great views. Mediocre light and a bit early for the spectacle of autumn colors.

#RockinTuesday #Mountains #Colorado #SummitView
Vertical photo showing extremely steep rocks rising thousands of feet above the screw slope below. In the distance more high mountains and scraggly summits slice the horizon below a deck of thin clouds.
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The Maroon Bells dressed in their autumn best.

They don’t call it colorful Colorado for nothing! Love the autumn magic in the high Rockies.

#MountainMonday #ClassicMono #ColorfulColorado #RockyMountains
#BlackAndWhiteLandscape #Mountainscape
The classic postcard scene of two striated, jagged peaks with a dusting of fresh snow framed by a lake and trees in the foreground. Aspen trees in the distance display a wide spectrum of dark gray to light gray as this otherwise colorful image is rendered in black and white.
September 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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As always, I am a sucker for slow dirt roads. Another shot from Alaska six years ago.

#TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShiw #Alaska #AutumnColors #Autumn
A distant mountain framed by trees, some in their autumn livery. A dirt road snakes its way toward the peak.
September 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Autumn colors and termination dust on Alaska’s Turnagain Pass. September 2019.

#autumncolora #scape #alaska #terminationdust #mountainscape
Green and gold and orange brown foliage at the base of a steep, rounded mountain with a layer of snow at the top. The sky is mostly cloudy.
September 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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10,000 feet up, mountains west of Denver. Decent little snowfall yesterday.
Quickly melting snow in a backlit subalpine forest.
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Happy equinox.

#Colorado #AutumnColors #PumpkinSpoce #MountainMonday
Autumn scene in the Colorado mountains. Foreground of intense gold Aspen leaves against clusters of green conifers. Dirt road and a few residential structures visible. In the background colorful hillsides giving away to steep, tall, and bare mountain summits. Sky mostly cloudy but patches of blue.
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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My weekly photography post: Seward harbor, Alaska.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles #Alaska #Clouds #Mountains
Calm harbor water reflects the scene of boats tied to their moorings. A coast guard vessel sits in the middle of the image with low clouds and mountains in the background.
September 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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“Downburst”

The problem with having such a nice view from my deck is I’m not compelled to go chase scenic photos as much.

I have a small child. I’m pretty thrilled to stay home and watch the storms roll in.

#Home #BlueSkyArtShow #StormCloud #Rain
A shaft of rain, backlit from behind by the afternoon sun, falls on forested low mountains of the Colorado Front Range. The clouds are dark and ominous.
September 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Mid September, interior Alaska. 2019.

“Termination Dust”: As the snow first appears on the mountaintops and moves down in elevation as autumn progresses.

#mountainscape #snowscape #scape #TerminationDust #autumn
Low clouds mix with trees sporting autumn colors as high clearing clouds reveal a steep mountain covered in snow with a sharp line where the snow accumulated and where the moisture fell as rain.
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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These photos are from a summer snow on September 8, 2020. Snapped on the trails near my home just before sunset. It was 80°F only a two days before.

September snows, once common on Colorado’s Front Range, are now extremely rare.

#summer #snow #colorado #BlueSkyArtShow
A dead tree, suspended by nearby living trees, is coated in a few inches of snow. A buck stands along side a few other deer in a snowy summer landscape. The autumn colors only just starting to show.
September 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Grand Tetons, Snake River overlook.

Yes, I’m aping Ansel Adams here.

#mountainscape #wyoming #classicmono #BlackAndWhiteLandscape
Mostly cloudy skies cast dappled light on the iconic Teton Range in northwest Wyoming. Trees and grass in the near foreground block view of the river the winds through the scene.
September 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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A September 1st summit sunrise from 2020 after the high peaks got their first tiny dusting of snow.

#MountainMonday #Mountainscape #Sunburst #Sunsrise #FirstSnow #Colorado
The sun rises over the rounded summits of the Colorado Rockies. The skies are hazy from lingering wildfire smoke but otherwise mostly clear. Some pink clouds occupy the upper left portion of the frame. Two alpine lakes are visible at the bottom of the image.
September 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This shiny airplane fuselage contrasts nicely with the autumn foliage.

#AutumnColors #BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Colorado
A metallic silver airplane fuselage sits adjacent to a sidewalk under a tree with green, orange, and red leaves. Sliver of blue sky in the upper right corner.
August 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Banded rock abstract.
Close up of rocks. Alternating bands of red and yellowish white. I’m not a geologist but I’m guessing this is sandstone?
August 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM