Colorado Shapshots, a photo archive

Click on any thumbnail picture, below, to see the full sized picture. As technology marches on, so too do file sizes increase. Most recent, at the bottom, are images taken with the new camera...6 megapixels instead of (near the top) 2.1. What a difference!

If you would like a copy of the original, uncompressed image, free, email me. In the case of the Nikon images at the bottom, the images presented are compressed versions of the originals. Help yourself, but if you're going to use them in a commercial application, I'd at least like to know about it! HCA's photo policy is here.

See also the wildlife page.

A very windy and cold day atop Loveland Pass, and a long telephoto shot.
Mayflower Gulch in early spring. How can any photographer miss??
"The Thorn", from the Hamilton Creek subdivision. The lucky folks who are wealthy enough to build in this area are rewarded by some of the best views in the county.
Picture taken from Mesa Cortina, looking east along Interstate 70 towards the Eisenhower Tunnel. Steam, at right, is from a yet-to-freeze-over Lake Dillon.
Wet summers are especially great for wildflowers!
A "snow mushroom", atop an old, mostly buried fencepost in Mayflower Gulch.
Autumn on Boreas Pass Road.
Peak One, winter.
Buffalo Mountain and Red Peak. Golf course, below
The Gore Range from Ute Pass Road.
The north flank of Peak One from high in Wildernest. Approaching storm.
Peak One from Dillon.
The Gore Range from Shrine Pass Road.
Late-season fireweed in Mayflower Gulch
Lupine along Ute Pass Rd. Gore Range in background.
Hallett Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
Lake Dillon, Buffalo Mountain in peak autumn color.
Great Sand Dunes National Monument
The town of Frisco during a very cold day in 2002. It is difficult, usually, to capture the immensity of the mountains, but I think this one comes close. "Peak One" in the clouds.
  In June of 2004 I finally acquired my first Nikon camera, a D70. Pictures below were taken with it.
This image shows a lot. Below, most of the town of Silverthorne. On the hill, above the town, you can see parts of Wildernest. The mountain is Peak One, and you can look up Ten Mile Canyon, upper right, and see some ski runs at Copper Mountain. Picture was taken from Hamilton Creek. This is a large, six megapixel image, nearly a megabyte. Fun to zoom into if you have the software to do it!
In August, 2004 we rode the Cumbres & Toltec narrow guage railroad. This was our source of power during the ride. What amazing things those old steam engines are!
Autumn color and new snow atop the Gore Range on September 25, 2004.
Mayflower Gulch, February 5, 2005.
Fresh avalanche on Peak One, May 9, 2005.