The little copse of dead trees are the final residents of Swallows, Colorado which still stand after the town was flooded to make Lake Pueblo in 1975. This scene was dreamt of and attempted for several years. The calm air and still water, the high clouds and unobstructed path from dawn to light them, and the water of the lake at this perfect level to reflect it so symmetrically are not elements that frequently align so perfect. Not to mention the most important and maybe rarest element of them all, a lazy photographer gets out of bed and out to the lake in time to see it.

An abandoned wreck of a home on a pitch-black night in the Black Canyon near Cokedale, Colorado. It once housed pioneering ranchers or miners, it now serves as the centerpiece for dough-soft artistic types.

HDR Panorama of Sunset at Lake Pueblo State Park

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One of the most beautiful strikes I’ve ever captured, striking west of Lake Pueblo State Park with the South Shore Marina in the foreground. Several shadows of a great horned owl in flight were imprinted in the shot at the upper left corner, lightning flashes multiple times per strike and can cause this effect with moving objects in the frame.

HDR Panorama of Red Canyon Overlook at Flaming Gorge near the Utah/Wyoming border.

This young fox and it's slightly smaller sibling had been cautiously checking me out while I was attempting to shoot some storms last week. I noticed they kept to a pretty regular pattern and set up for this shot every evening until the fifth night when a little orange someone's curiosity finally got the better of him. Admittedly, the sunset had already dimmed much more than that and I masked in a slightly earlier version of the same background.

Shortly after this exposure, things got a little too intense for the likes of me and I decided to ride out the worst of it out in the car.