Textures: Heaven and Earth
Resembling a mini Badlands National Park, the recent torrential rains in Southern Colorado produced deep erosional cuts in a land development near my home. Intrigued by the textures in the late afternoon sunlight, I photographed this scene with my trusty Voigtländer Ultron 40mm f/2.0 aspherical lens cranked down to f/22 for optimal depth of field […]
Tropical butterflies
I participated in a unique experience recently in the tropical conservatory at the Butterfly Pavilion, Westminster, CO. With tripods and cameras in hand, we photographers were allowed access to the tropical rainforest one hour before the doors opened to the public. The 7,200 square-foot tropical rainforest conservatory was filled with over a thousand free-flying tropical […]
Shove Memorial Chapel — a personal favorite
I’ve had the privilege of photographing some exceptionally beautiful churches during the past year while traveling to Europe and Canada. The exquisite Norte Dame Basilica in Old Montreal, the impressive Old St. Peter cathedral in Munich, and the opulent St. Mang Basilica in Füssen, Bavaria provided wonderful photo ops and venues for spiritual reflection. Yet […]
Faded valentine: Michelle’s Cafe
Once gracing the cover of Life magazine, the successful candy and ice cream cafe Michelle Chocolatiers & Ice Cream, went belly up in 2007. Unpaid federal tax debt brought the popular eatery for over 50 years to a sour end. On this Valentines Day, here’s a toast to sweeter memories of this Colorado Springs landmark. […]
Motel Americana: puzzler answers
Here are the answers to yesterday’s photo puzzler “anachronisms.” First the assumption: The postmark stamp was essential, because it established the year as 1967. Therefore, the following elements cannot be chronologically accurate: 1. The Minivan (and other model vehicles in the background) American minivans weren’t introduced in 1984 with the Dodge Caravan. Source: wikipedia.org 2. […]
Motel Americana
Before the interstate highway system and the dominance of corporate-owned hotel chains, small privately-owned motels peppered the American rural landscape. With the birth U.S. Route 66, mobile Americans increased traffic on the highway, giving rise to mom-and-pop businesses, such as service stations, restaurants, and of course the motor lodge. In the 50s and 60s, motor […]
HDR iPhonography: Pauline Chapel and Garden of the Gods Park
Armed with digital cameras, my good friend Lee Brown (blog author of A Day Not Wasted) and I set out early Saturday morning in search of natural beauty. Our mission: to capture eye-catching water photos at Helen Hunt Falls in North Cheyenne Cañon Park. Unfortunately, the splendor of the falls lay hidden beneath ice and […]
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Frosty February
“Our snow was not only shaken from white wash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees…” —Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales Saturday night’s heavy fog and snow, combined with low temperatures resulted in a […]
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