Wildflowers
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Sunset on 14,265' Quandary Peak's North face paired with a meadow of yellow paintbrushes. August 2020.
Spectacular wildflowers under a rainbow. Taken on a backpacking trip into the Gore Range.
Sunset in the Mosquito Range after a long day of summiting several centennial 13ers.
After backpacking in several miles to photograph this spectacular wildflower meadow, it rained for a few hours. Convinced the rain would break at the last minute, I stood here getting soaked while finding a composition and protecting my camera. The rain gave way to this explosive sunset only for a few minutes.
Woolly Mule's Ears carpet a meadow overlooking the iconic Marcellina Mountain in Crested Butte, Colorado. This sunset took place on July 14, 2019, my 30th birthday. Great gift from Mother Nature if you ask me.
Queen's Crowns at an Unnamed Alpine Lake
This unnamed lake has been on my list for a while now. I first spotted it years ago from the summit of the mountain pictured and my eye has always been drawn to it on maps. Not exactly sure why it took me so long to get up there. Perhaps I was saving it for the right time. I made a backpacking trip out of it last week and was not disappointed. There is something special about unnamed areas...a different kind of seclusion. I’ve been drawn to similar places lately in an attempt to not only try something different, but in search of less human activity.
Early Summer Lupines coming into bloom along the shore of an alpine lake in the Gore Range, Colorado.
The skies have been extremely hazy lately due to the wildfires in California and locally near Kremmling. The air has a strong scent of camp fire. It may be somewhat difficult to tell from this photo, but this entire basin had a low hanging haze similar to fog. Typically the field next to the cabin holds a nice collection of assorted wildflowers that peak in late July / early August, but this year they were all gone aside from these last patches of Fireweed.
A fiery sky over a field of Lupines in the Gore Range, Colorado
The sun setting behind Fletcher Mountain's near 14,000' jagged ridge in the Tenmile Range south of Breckenridge, Colorado. I backpacked in and set up camp here at around 13,000'shortly before sunset. It was a beautifully calm evening as you can see by the stillness of the lake.