Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Creepy RV.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
You Are Beautiful.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Undercover.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
The Downward Spiral.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Glass, Metal, Concrete and Light.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Denver At Dusk.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Road Closed.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Abbey Road (Air Force Style)
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Candid.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
World Trade Centers Remembered.
August 2001. I was still learning to use a manual film camera and I had some metering issues going on. The intent of this shot was to have everything in the foreground to be well lit but I metered for the setting sun by accident. The picture that resulted probably ended up being a much more dramatic and meaningful image. Film was all about those happy accidents.
August 2001. The view from the Empire State Building.
August 2001.
August 2001. In my good friend's dad's office only a few blocks away. This was when the scale and size of the buildings actually hit me. Up until this point, this was as close as I had been. Literally took my breath away.
August 2001. This is how I will always remember the towers. I felt like a little kid awash in total awe. Up until this point in my life I had never been made to feel so miniscule. September 2004. Tribute in light.
September 2006. Tribute in light. Fifth year anniversary. I was visting the towers for the first time that day with some friends who had lived and visited New York many time, so they had already seen the towere many times. They didn't want to go that day because it was just anther day in the city to them. It was boring and they had been there done that. But I was not going to let my first trip to New York go down without a trip to the towers. I had watched too many hours of movies, tv shows and history documentaries referencing these buildings to not visit. To this day I am very thankful that I was persistant and enough of a pest to get them to take me down to see the World Trade Centers.
If this trip taught me anything, it was to not take anything for granted both as a person and as a photographer. Just a month later these gleaming steal and glass structures would be piles of ash and rubble. I am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be able to see them in person. This is how each and every one of us should feel about every day. If something as massive and amazing as two one hundred-plus story buildings can be wiped off the map, than anything can be taken away from us. As the United States and the rest of the world stop to remember the senseless loss of Two Thousand Nine Seventy-Five people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. that day ten years ago, let it be a reminder to never again take for granted those people and the things in your life that are important to you.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 09, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
The Barn.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Zapata Falls.
Zapata Falls. Not a giant waterfall by any means, but what it lacks in scale it more than makes up for in beauty and sound. The acoustics in the surrounding gorge make the falls sound like they are ten times bigger than they really are.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Sand In Unexpected Places.
Early Morning.
Early Morning. Lone hiker on his way to summit the dunes with the moon still out overhead. Curvy.
Gorgeous.
Everywhere you look the wind and sand have created all sorts of unique patterns. Big sand, little sand. Tracks. These went on as far as the eye could see. Been here for a while. Dune into dune. Striations in the sand. Shredding the dunes. Righteous. Three unlikely ecosystems converge. The plains, the desert and the mountains. The view from the neighboring Sangre de Cristo Mountains. This is what hiking in sand dunes does to a pair of shoes.
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Mosca, CO.