Photography
All these photos were taken on hikes either yesterday, Jan 15, or today January 16. The snowy photos are hiking up to Stone Mountain, a 6 mile out and back hike with my sister and Luna the dog. The non-snowy ones are at Devil's Backbone just outside of Loveland, Colorado.
Assignment 1 |
Assignment 3 - Camera Control
Assignment 5 - Composition
Assignment 6 - Abstraction
Assignment 8 - Documentary
For this assignment I set out to do street photography within the city of Fort Collins, Colorado. I went out around noon on a Thursday in hopes of catching lunch time for all the people who are working. When I got downtown I found absolutely nobody at all. At first I was like "oh, is there a stay at home order I don't know about?" (there wasn't). As I was wandering around in search of any humans I started to notice the negative space that the lack of other humans created. I started photographing that and found that the empty city at a time where it should have been bustling was hauntingly beautiful. In the end I think my project turned into a documentary series on "COVID in the city..."
Assignment 10 - Panoramic and HDR
Both of these were shot at Horsetooth Reservoir. In the summer we can dive, swim, paddle board, wakeboard, and jet ski here... You can see the rock that looks like a horsetooth in the panoramic that the reservoir gets its name from...In the 1950s they flooded the valley and 200' under the water is the town of Stout, Colorado...
FINAL PROJECT
For my final project I decided to document the burn scar from the Cameron Peak Fire. This was the largest fire in Colorado history burning from August 2020 through early December 2020. It burned a total of 310 square miles. This was my first trip into the burn scar and I was amazed at how much love there is for our firefighters still gracing the area. You can see trees that survived where others burned and where the firefighters were able to hold their line on the highway stopping its progress. The burn devastation was overwhelming to see. These photos were taken over the course of the past few days.
The first photo was taken in August at Horsetooth Reservior at noon. The Cameron Peak fire was still just a few days old. It was that dark. The second photo was taken just outside my apartment in late September, early October. Loveland was still 25 miles away and a few days from having mandatory evacuations.
Ash was so thick in town that we had COVID masks as well as fire masks.
The first photo was taken in August at Horsetooth Reservior at noon. The Cameron Peak fire was still just a few days old. It was that dark. The second photo was taken just outside my apartment in late September, early October. Loveland was still 25 miles away and a few days from having mandatory evacuations.
Ash was so thick in town that we had COVID masks as well as fire masks.
Just for fun...
This is "The Stanley" Hotel in Estes Park. This is the hotel that was the inspiration for "The Shining". We didn't know it was here, just kind of stumbled across it while exploring Estes Park today.
Sometimes you are outside and the Northern Rockies just take your breath away.