Ice-climbing a frozen waterfall

Ice-climbing

Hayes Creek falls, south of Redstone, Colorado is a popular ice-climbing location in winter. There are a few more places in the Crystal River valley, and I'm eager to find and photograph them.

A new resource for Colorado trail information

As an avid landscape photographer, I create tens of thousands of photos every year.  Over a thousand of these are posted to my Flickr pages.  Dozens more, plus advice and other useful information are on my website, Best-Landscape-Photography.com.  It's from these locations that many people doing web searches find my work.  Some merely admire it, some take it, and a few offer to buy it. 

A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from a guy creating a new website for people who love to explore Colorado as much as I do.  His site, RokSlide.com, needed photos for many of the trails he was describing.  I offered him as many of mine as he wanted in exchange for links.  He agreed, and now he's using my images to enhance his description of at least ten hikes.  I like the format of his site, and am eager to see how it evolves.  I'll probably use it myself for areas with which I'm unfamiliar.

The Black Canyon of the Gunnison

About an hour and a half south of my house is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.  Because it's so close, I try to get down there at least once a year.  A few weeks ago, I realized I had yet to visit this year, so I made the journey on a gorgeous autumn afternoon.

It's a challenge to capture the canyon's impressive majesty with photographs.  Because it's so narrow and deep, little light makes its way to the bottom.  In October, the low angle of the sun allows even less light to penetrate the depths of the canyon.  That does nothing to diminish the experience of viewing it from any of the overlooks on the north or south rims, and thus I don't hesitate to visit regardless of the time of year.

The scrub oak was still ablaze in color so late in the season, and the rim of the canyon has a lot of it, along with pinon pine, cacti,  and other high desert flora.