IN ANTICIPATION

Tipi between aspens, Ashcroft, Colorado, 2014

In anticipation of our soon starting vacation I’m looking through older photos with fall colors. As mentioned yesterday already, we don’t have any here yet, but we will head north and October is probably the best time to be there for the colors of autumn. 

This aspen covered slope in the Rocky Mountains was gorgeous by itself but the tipi between the trees added another point of interest to the image. This photo was made in the ghost town of Ashcroft, an old silver mining town founded in 1880.

GOING OUT WEST

Rocky Mountains, Colorado -----------

Today I have nothing but a picture made with the camera in my phone through the window of a Boeing 737-800 on my way from Chicago to Las Vegas, Nevada. This was not my final destination and I’m writing these lines from a hotel in Reno, NV, where I will stay during a business trip over the next few days. I’m always excited to fly over the Rocky Mountains, especially since Joan and I have been at several locations in the mountains of Colorado during recent vacation trips. It seems always difficult to identify part of a landscape from high up in the air, even if you think you know the area. Shooting through the window of tinted plastic in an airplane may always lead to goofy looking colors, and processing the image on my 2008 notebook may not be the best recipe to produce a quality image. But some guy smarter than me said before, the best camera is always the one you have with you… My photo gear was safely stored up in the overhead compartment and it would have been a long story to explain why I didn’t even try to get it out of the bag…