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Walking into the new year be like...

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Right place wrong shutter So many great things happening here.

An active ecosystem today, 20F and sunny at times.

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Color & Cold

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Thankful for this distraction tonight that turned into a gift

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Birds in formation moving toward the glow this evening. I wonder what they see from their inconsequential perspective?

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Dawn & Dusk. A rare evening with fog, cold and subtle color

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A Shimmer, Crystal & Shine Day

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Strong wind and clouds rolling in, a delight for birds to soar Pretty sure I heard "Witch Hunt" by Rush playing as this unfolded. https://open.spotify.com/track/6cbBAD1AAYVaQR1cx89AZX?si=d58384abd5424961

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Clouds, color, ice & interference before the snow rolled in a few hours later

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Phase Change

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Caption This Photo!

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Impactful Cloud Wall This Evening

Orange I'm glad it was a quiet, still evening

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Sometimes, love turns fowl. In this case it worked out

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Did you heron what I heron? It sounds like blue.

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Wow. Northern Lights. The very late night and cold breeze was so worth it

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Road Trip!

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An Evening Interrupted A bird visited Ellie and I twice

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Light Show Passing Through

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Standing tall and bright Green with growth & iMagine Magenta

A bunny rabbit detour leads to a wet dog and this

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It's a bit fuzzy out there and one card short of a full deck

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Do you want to be pretty or do you want to be angry?

Amber Happened

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9531 Feet is a Treasure

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High Altitude Colors Attitude

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Embers Not Noise Alexander Mountain Fire

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Embers not Noise Alexander Mountain Fire

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Sun Kissed

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Determined

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Fall Heron Stalking

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Waving Goodbye

Trapping Dinner

Jammin

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Still Water Dynamics

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Late to the Party

Ice & Fire

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Sunset on Ice with Frosting

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Cheeky

Proud Mama

Sunrise Stalkers

Predator's Patience Red Tail Hawk

Undecided

Bad Hair Day Alternative titles: "Rough Night", "Me, After Fighting With My Wife"

The Art of Play

Edgy & Horned

A Gaze Beyond

Fading Watch

Curious Standoff

Echoes of the Herd

Emerging Strength

A Glance Before the Glide

Gentle Radiance

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Sentinel of the Ember Tide

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Evening Passage

At the Threshold of Ascent

Glacier Waters, Rusted Words

Where Beauty Waited at Earned Altitude

A Still Lake, and One Quick Splash

An Invitation in Green

Where the Wildflowers Found Two Explorers This wasn’t just a field of wildflowers — it was a moment. A burst of color, life, and joy that Ellie and I wandered into together. In the moment, you don’t always realize how sacred something is. But looking back, it’s clear: we didn’t just find this meadow — the wildflowers found us. A gift from God, waiting in full bloom. Ellie, my adventure partner and photography companion, so often leads us straight into magic.

Before Goodbye, a Gaze

You Again?

Stillness Struck

Liquid Light A quiet high alpine evening, where the only movement was deer passing through.

Grin in the Green

Your Adventure Awaits

Teamwork Aspiring to the Sky

Glacier Garden

Wildflower Sea Beneath Wyoming Peaks

Colorado Stillness A quiet high alpine evening, where the only movement was deer passing through.

Rooted Fate

Wings of Bounty

Honk of the Season

Serenity, Joyfully Shattered

Embers at the Edge of Daylight

Going Up

Stacked

Autumn at Altitude

Silent Presence, Crowned Frank the Tank

Fall and Freedom — Never Gets Old

“Look… it’s been a day.”

Last Gasp

Who Needs Stars? Sand Hill Cranes

Silent Passage

Signs of Life American Kestrel

Flocking to the Fire

Autumn Light on Teasels

Burning Divide

Luminous Convergence

Guided by the Glow

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Celestial Veins

Gravity? Never Heard of Her.

Glow: Caught

Duckless… Again?

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Surface Tension

Yielding

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Defiant Green

Onward

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Twice Chosen Morning two. Whatever they know about this spot, they're certain.

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White Noise Windy Weathers visited today.

Simply There

Exhale The day, the week, the season, the sky exhales.

Lost in Still

Never Alone Cracked clay, Mars-like silence, and footsteps pressed into the earth long before I arrived stopped me in my tracks — a quiet reminder that no matter how remote the path, we never truly walk alone.

Look Up A whole lot of reasons to look anywhere but down.

Secondhand Sky A cold front rolled in, trading scorching heat for something cooler, but it came at a price. The wind carried smoke from the PNW fires down to us, hazing out the mountains and bending the sunset into colors that aren't quite normal. No filter on the camera, just the whole sky turned into one, the light strained through a few hundred miles of someone else's fire. Beautiful and a little uneasy at the same time. We had a guest for it too: a dog we're sitting, watching the lake and mountains like he'd never seen anything like it.

Gems in the Wilderness Deep into the Snowy Range, Ellie and I found gems in the wilderness: a big boulder glowing blue-green against all that grey talus, with a few more of the same scattered up the slope. Ellie was ready to keep moving; I needed the shot. I didn't know what caused it at the time. Turns out it's fuchsite, a chromium-rich version of mica that gives the quartzite its teal cast. It's rare enough that in the entire Snowy Range it only surfaces in two known spots, remnants of rock that got metamorphosed and tilted when two ancient landmasses collided almost two billion years ago. So the "why is this rock teal" question I asked mid-trail had a genuinely wild answer: just under 11,000 feet, I was standing on the seam of an ancient continental collision. Not bad for a Saturday.

Medicine Bow Heals 1:30 AM, 10,000 feet, and the only reason I was awake was too much water before bed. Worth it. The stars we'd been waiting on all trip finally showed, and the Snowy Range opened up over the tent. Even bundled in winter down, I stood out there longer than I'd planned, just letting it work on me. Days of mostly overcast skies and some rain, tired legs and a tired dog Ellie, and all of it quieted under that sky. Medicine Bow heals. A meteor streaked past a heartbeat before this frame. Missed it. The rest of the night more than made up for it.

Deeply Rooted Relationship 🍂 A gathering of aspens, one shared root system, more entangled than they look. Deep roots make everything simpler. RMNP at peak fall.

Perspective, Straight Up Stand at the base of an aspen and look up - the whole world reorganizes itself into gold and blue. RMNP at peak color. 🍂

Brushstrokes No paint. No canvas. Just autumn reeds, still water, and a sunken sky. Taken between sessions on a fall shoot at RMNP. I looked down at the water, saw an oil painting, and forgot about everything else for ten minutes. My beautiful lady companions were patient with me for this amazing distraction.