Eleven Mile Part 3

Here are the final ten images I'm posting on the blog from my last Eleven Mile State Park shoot. There are a lot of what I feel are good shots. It's really hard to pick out what I think is the best of the best. One of those I think is that bench image seven pics down.
I hope you enjoy the images, and here they are.

On Thursday we'll be heading up to Cripple for over night. I'll make sure I get some images that I can share here on the blog, and on Viewbug. I'm hoping the Aspens will be quite into the color change. If you capture the light right the leaves seem to glow. I managed to capture some of that in this last shot which made me quite happy.
One of the things I decided to do this year was try to images out that would maybe offset some of the political negativity. There's a lot of it out there. That I think I've succeeded at. I've also managed to start hiking a bit again. As far as I can tell I hiked a little over three miles of the trails at Eleven Mile State Park. According to the map there's about six miles of trails altogether and they're all in one small portion of the park. I hiking about half of the trail system.
One nice thing that's come about is I have a tendency to decompress a bit when I'm on one of these shoots I've been going on. It allows me to clear my mind completely as I focus on the compositions that I'm making. By now, I could care less if I were to make a living at doing nature photography.

So I can get the distances a bit more accurately I think I'll have to add a walkmeter to my Droid phone.

I hope you will have a wonderful day, and that you'll enjoy your life a bit.

Eleven Mile part two

I did get a lot of photographs on this shoot. There will be one more post tomorrow with some more images. It really was a very good day for photography and I got a lot of good images. A few, I think, are exceptional.
On the second one down you'll notice a bunch of spider silk spread over the rocks. Apparently it's spider nursery central. You can't really see them well in the image but there was lots spider nests in amongst the silk spread over the rocks. It was amazing to me to see that.
The sixth one down the lighting was amazing. The sun was at the right angle to light up those clouds which seemed to line up to that island. It would be a hard shot to mess up. Timing is everything sometimes in photography. You wait a few minutes and the lighting has changed.

Without further ado here are some more of the images.

The day is coming I probably won't be able to do all of the hiking like I'm doing now. At the least I'll have gobs of images to help me reminisce about the times I'm experiencing now. For too long I was in a hurry and honestly I can say I didn't enjoy life all that much. Now I do.
Have a great day and try to enjoy your life a bit.

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.