Sunset

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Walking into the new year be like...

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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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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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Impactful Cloud Wall This Evening

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

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

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Nothing to See Here

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An Evening Interrupted A bird visited Ellie and I twice

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A bunny rabbit detour leads to a wet dog and this

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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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Fall Heron Stalking

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Waving Goodbye

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Still Water Dynamics

Late to the Party

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The Art of Play

Gentle Radiance

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Sentinel of the Ember Tide

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Evening Passage

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

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

Honk of the Season

Serenity, Joyfully Shattered

Embers at the Edge of Daylight

Silent Presence, Crowned Frank the Tank

Flocking to the Fire

Burning Divide

Holiday Drama

Fracture

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

Parallel Light Two phenomena, same sky, same moment. A storm pushing east while the light fought back. Look closely along the rainbow, a second line, white and faint, rising parallel. A sun pillar, light reflected off suspended ice crystals, caught alongside the rainbow almost by chance.

Overcast Lies Overcast all day. One hole in the sky disagreed.

Distracted Even the wild ones lose focus sometimes.

Burning Layers A hot, ordinary day dissolved into this. Compressed layers of storm and light colliding above the mountains. One of those moments where you just point and shoot and feel grateful.

The Paddle Home A brutal, sweltering day was finally breaking. The light went gold, and everyone pointed for home, a slow paddle at a time.

Fetch Me a Sunset Everyone else was winding down. Ellie was just getting started. 🌅 Carter Lake didn't stand a chance.

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.

Things Are Looking Up Saturday's loop over Trail Ridge Road and Old Fall River Road had plenty of highlights, but this grove on the west side of RMNP stole the show. The sun was dropping low, backlighting every leaf, and the trunks lined up like columns in a cathedral. A fellow photographer and I happened on it at the same moment and shared a quick "are you seeing this?!" Right place, right time. Hope it brightens your day as much as it did mine. 🍂