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Depending on your position on the street it can be as dark as evening when the buildings are covering the sun in just the right way.
Life continues in my Taylor series. My cousin mentioned he liked the pasque flower shot... like this, Jim! I remember a comic in the Sunday paper named "Mark Trails." Well... this trail was markedly marked and this pasque flower group found it a good, well fertilized place to grow and flourish. That suggests the chicken and the egg dilemma. These Rockies are usually protective of showy life. One needs to investigate closely. Perhaps not too closely? I am dedicating this to eDDie and his pasque flower trek. Was he here earlier? If so, he really needs to work on his digestion problems!
Further up, atop Taylor, everything turns into a view but there are finds all of the way up. Smith Lake, pond, is off to the west of the road although there is a trace road up near there. I need to return there sometime too. See my Taylor album. Taylor Road habitat appears to be transitioning to a new year of growth. The aspen leaves are just beginning to sprout up here. The ponderosa showed a new crop of pine cones. I am sure it was deep in snow not long ago. I thought I'd throw in a shot of the road up to Taylor Mountain.
eDDie and I finally headed up toward Taylor Road and parked at the closed gate. Looks like it is foot work for us from here. It is hoped the gate can keep 4 wheeling idiots from destroying the fragile road and ecosystem. The world needs protection from those idiots. Here we are above the Peak to Peak Highway on the way up the forest road. We already paused to snap the dwarf, stunted pine in the rock and are onto new territory. We found the target pasque flowers around the hill side below the road. It's clear that I had to get in tight on the miniature displays. I found several subjects to add to others I have shot before.
eDDie and I headed up the South St.Vrain up toward Taylor Mtn. in May. eDDie was after a fabled field of flowers, Colorado Rockies pasque flowers. The day was still crisp but would soon warm nicely. The Koch Bros always seem to bring the toast to the day, and rain to the Texicans. We can still hope for good skies before moving on. We found no wildlife up here but then I never have on my several days and nights up there. I have walked up to the top in snow but being in the wind, the top was clear.
eDDie was hot on the trail of a fabled field of flowers up on the Taylor Mountain Road. Unfortunately, the road was to remain gated until Memorial Day weekend. We tightened our hiking boots and eDDie grabbed a table cloth to lay upon. I'll lay down anywhere, any time, myself. eDDie didn't look like he used the cloth much either!
This photo is an 'exercise' in natural selective color. The majority of the zinnias had turned to a near-consistent looking brown color, but there was one bud that was still clinging to its original color. Can you guess what color?
I have been going through an old hard drive of photos. I am sure this was taken someplace in Michigan
Flickr Lounge: colours of fall
In expectation of seeing monarchs and other orange butterflies on butterfly weed, I had pre-set one of the settings on my camera to orange--though I forgot I had done so when I had a good chance to try it out last week. This week I remembered, and got some sweet shots of a great spangled fritillary on cosmos. (Most of the colors my camera has as an option are, unfortunately, unusable for nature photography. I'd looked forward to trying cardinals or sunflowers, and both of those are colors my camera cannot select. So far I have found only a yellowish green and orange that are colors found in nature. Oh well.)
© Jeff R. Clow
I processed this shot on an iPad with an app called Colorblast....it does a nice job on selective color.
This Volvo Amazon from 1970 IS painted in this matte, grey color.
The surrounding grass and stuff just sort of disturbed the picture of the car itself, so...
Captured at Wheels Nationals 2016.
A castle of hoodoos in front, Church Rock in the background. All I had to do was wait for the clouds to highlight just the right places...
(tech note: no post processing or adjustment, straight out of the camera. preprocessing by Mother Nature :^)