Eleven mile part one

We went to Eleven Mile State Park yesterday. There are several trails around part of the park which I was able to explore in depth as I had several hours available. It was great to be able to hike for over three miles. I covered most of the trail system, and bunch of it I'd never been on before.

I did have quite a few good ones, and some I think are more exceptional, out of the 75 photos. It'll be difficult to pick just a few for Viewbug though I think the first, and last one, I'm posting here will be among those. BTW, I will be doing at least one more post of some of the images I'm not posting now.

Have a great day and try to enjoy your life a bit.

Palmer Park

We stopped at Palmer Park today for a little bit between errands and I got a few pictures. A couple of them I'm really happy with. Especially the first of the two road pictures though the second one is pretty good too.
In all the years I've lived in Colorado Springs I'm surprised I never went in this park before this year. At least I'm getting around to enjoying it now.

I'm going to try to get up near Cripple Creek next week. I think the Aspens will be in full color. I'm so looking forward to getting them.

At the very end of this month we will be heading off to Mt Rushmore. We also have plans to visit Devils Tower. Be ready for pictures.

Until next time, have a great day.

Fall colors

Here are my first ten fall color images. A couple of them I really like. 

The trees have barely begun to change but they're definitely on their way. I'll continue to document.

Have a great day and try to enjoy your life.

CF&I Steel

CF&I Steel was a major manufacturer of steel back in the day. Since then there's been major labor strikes, and the company was sold off to Oregon Steel. Part of what was CF&I was never used to Oregon Steel so it's now derelicts of a bygone era. The other day, when we were in Pueblo, I decided to document a bit.

I'd love to wander around on the property and go nuts with the camera. I don't believe they allow that however. There's a lot of stuff that you can get hurt on. I might ask next year, and would probably need to sign some kind of waiver. It seems to me it'd be a very interesting shoot.

Making the resulting images black and white seemed to fit for me. It added an element of starkness to the photos.

Have a great day and try to enjoy your life a bit.

Kiddie Roller Coaster

We were in City Park in Pueblo today. One of the things there is a kiddie carnival. I think they originally were installed in the 1930's. Among the rides is a mini steam train, a mini roller coaster, and several others. 

I think I rode all of the rides in 1976. 

It is a memorable experience anyway. Memorable enough I've remembered it for 40 years at any rate. OMG, that makes me...

Let's stop thinking about that right now. I think I'd better focus on the good memories from when I was much younger.

Here are the images of the roller coaster I captured. The images are straight from the camera, and in GIMP I desaturated each using the luminosity channel. Otherwise they are untouched.

Now on to my creating black and whites out of the other images. I also got some of the CFI ruins that are left from down in Bessemer. Might be posting some of those soon too.

Until next time have a great day and try to enjoy your life some.

24 August

After I got Susan to her billiards match I walked over to this field behind the bar. I've been noticing it for many weeks but hadn't done any images there. Either the weather wasn't cooperating, or I didn't have a camera with me. Still, I kept noticing it. Last night I was able to actually capture a few images of what I was seeing. These, I think, are some of the best out of the 20+ photos.
Until you're out in the middle of the field you never notice those dirt pathways that I managed to capture in the first two pictures. I love how they led my eye into the rest of the scene.
I would have liked to stay out there a bit longer so I could capture more of the deeper sunset colors but I had to go inside and start keeping score.

Happily I noticed this bee feeding as I'm wandering about. I'm not sure what the wildflowers are. They sure are pretty though.

There are a lot of Brown Eyed Susan's out in the field. And they grow tall. Here's one of the many.

I hope you enjoyed the images. Have a great day, and enjoy your life to the fullest.

Old cars

This morning I captured a few frames. I wanted to see how the Canon would do on the moon. So, I did a test just after I got to work. Here are the results and I'm pretty pleased. I'm looking forward to doing some night shots.

These cars are across the parking lot from where I work. They're sitting outside of a shop, the guy who owns them is very slowly restoring them. I've been looking at them for a long time and finally decided to capture a few images.
My favorites are the bottom three.

And doing this shoot has given me some ideas for future shoots.

Have a great day and try to enjoy your life a bit.