More From The San Juan Mountains of Colorado

The San Juan Mountains in Colorado are loaded with scenic views. There are some places that are popular photo spots and you will often see a group of photographers taking in a particular scene. I prefer getting away from the crowd and finding my own vantage point. To take the image above I left the road and climbed the bank until I could get a nice perspective on this valley that led toward the background mountains. I could stay in a spot like this all afternoon just taking in the changing clouds and light.

Outside of the town of Ouray, there is a road that leads into the mountains. Stopping along the road and taking a short walk to look into the canyon I found this house in an incredible setting. Can you imagine spending time in a place like this? I think I might want to put my camera away and get out the fishing gear.

This is one of those popularly photographed places where you will find other photographers to chat with. It is called the Dallas Divide and is located southwest of the town of Ridgeway. Sunrises and sunsets produce some really great photography here.

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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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The Aurora Borealis, May 10, 2024

This last May, my wife, Jan, and I were on vacation in the San Juan Islands, WA. We were there for a week staying at the Trumpeter Inn, a B&B on San Juan Island. Mid way through our stay we heard there was to be a Northern Lights display and that we would likely be able to see it since we were at a latitude just north of Victoria, BC. The excitement was immediate. The conditions were just right as the sky was cloudless and the moon was in its crescent phase and would be low on the horizon (and therefore not overly bright) during the expected good viewing time between 10 pm and 2 am. The image above was taken that night and is what I was expecting to see, a green Aurora. Little did we know what was to come! Early on the was the first hint that something special was about to happen as color in addition to green began to show. I found this very exciting as I had seen green auroras before but never one with the purple/blue colors an...

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