San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Dallas Creek Road

I have not spent enough time in Colorado. It has such amazing beauty. The one place I did spend some time was in the San Juan Mountains. I was there about 10 days, first with a group of photographers and then with my wife, Jan. The scene above is on Dallas Creek Road. I had been there a few days earlier with the group of photographers but the sky was boring and the snow was missing. One morning, after the photographers had left Jan and I were staying in Ouray. It snowed! I was up before dawn and headed for this location. In the dark I missed the turn off and did a bit of frantic wandering until I finally found the road. I knew this location with fall color, snow on the mountains and a dramatic cloudy sky could be an exceptional scene to photograph. That is Mt Sneffles in the background and Dallas Creek in the foreground right.

This is a closer look at the scene on the left of the previous picture. I find these mountains to be especially dramatic and was really happy to see the fall color in the foreground. This was an amazing morning and the only thing I missed was being able to include the bear that was seen in the area down by Dallas Creek.

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Art Display At The Center For Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa

The Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa, has a wonderful program that encourages artist members to display their work. The work is hung in the Social Hall and typically has about twenty pieces hanging for two months at a time. On March 1rst I will be hanging several images taken in Iceland, along with some wildlife images, including foxes, coyotes, eagles and kites. I will also have some paintings by my mother and two of my own. I am pretty excited about this showing. One of the pictures I will have in the show is of Godafoss, a beautiful waterfall in Iceland. When I first saw pictures of this waterfall I knew I wanted to go to Iceland to take pictures of it. This composition required gettin into some very cold water.

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