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I was running an errand earlier this year when the sky suddenly started doing this. The sun only projected through the clouds like this for moments and then was gone.
Image Notes: exposure blending via luminosity masking. I also confess to photoshopping out a small power-line on right.
Time to reflect on the highpoints of the year, to savor them. Time to consider what went wrong and how to prevent them. Time to pile up hopes for the future and act on them.
The weather report asserted that snow would be falling on December 31, so I went early and took this on December 30.
As I took this, the Indian Peaks Wilderness and Rocky Mountain National Park were swathed in clouds that picked up some of the warmth of the higher clouds bathed in the last sunlight. The Flatirons are visible on the first leap of the Front Range, which rises more than a mile above the Great Plains.
The days are getting longer.
The late afternoon sun silhouettes a wildland fire fighter walking the line of a prescribed burn on City of Boulder natural land property near the Boulder Reservoir.
BNSF 8999 slowly leads a southbound coal train down the grade out of Palmer Lake, CO the morning after a snow storm hit the area with about 6" of the white stuff.
Boy, it doesn't get much better along the Joint Line than sunny skies with fresh snow, the Rampart Range, and a new ACe leading the way! I've never had much luck getting winter shots in Colorado, but this one makes up for it!
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The Eastern sky was filled with storm clouds this morning. Snow is on the way!
While some parts of the world are experiencing record high temperatures (which sadly is all to common), winter has still not completely given way to spring in the high country of the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies.
I had the opportunity to visit one of my regular sunset/ sunrise locations from my pre-retirement days this week- Red Rock Lake, which has one of the best views of a prime selection of summits in the Indian Peaks (l to r): Kiowa, Arikaree, Navajo, Apache, and Shoshoni Peaks.
The moose who galloped past us. Shyla warned me with a very wide-eyed look as the moose barreled behind me, due to a group of dogs who appeared with their human right after the moose went by.
366: The 2016 Edition (57/365)
I love seeing the stars but I rarely go out into the cold to see them when we're home. This evening was warm so I set up my tripod to capture our chimney, trees, and the North Star! I was pleasantly surprised by how it turned out.
ISO 100, focal length 24mm, f/1.4, and 22 exposures of 320 seconds each (118 minutes total). Exposures were stacked using StarStax.
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DDC "Waiting" - Waiting to see what color will emerge next from the sky!
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DDC "Water"
We arrived home to discover that we'd had a huge snowstorm (and that is the Front Range's source of WATER). Thank goodness for good friends who plowed our driveway for us. Shyla smiled as she galloped through the snow!
DDC "Tall Tales" - This photo tricks you into thinking that my dog is standing at a big drop-off. In fact, she's about 4' off the ground. That's kind of a "tall tale"!
This "big boned" least chipmunk, I affectionately nicknamed Eric Cartman, was still out in the snow begging for a handout while all his relatives were snuggled in for the winter.
From what I've read, the least chipmunk does not hibernate, or put on excess fat in the fall. Instead, they survive the winter by entering torpor for long stretches of time, waking to eat food cached in the burrow.
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DDC "There's no place like..." our mountains. You can see our world reflected in Shyla's Eye (and you can see me!).