The Variety Collection

My images in this gallery are used in other galleries or for elements of the website, but please do feel free to browse/shop it if you are curious. You will find a large potpourri of my photography in this collection with image subjects ranging from urban to wilderness.

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Wildfire Season in the Colorado Rockies

Colorado has had a number of forest fires start in the past couple of weeks. This image shows the Cow Creek Fire ( http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2003/ ) on last Friday as viewed from Stove Prairie Road while it was undergoing rapid expansion.

The Cow Creek fire is burning in the West Creek drainage, my own "special place" since I've been a boy. I'm quite anxious to see the aftermath once the trails are open again.

As of June 30th, the fire has burned 911 acres and there are 228 people supporting the fire. Based on mapping it seems the fire didn't get below the falls on either Cow or West Creeks and no structures are threatened at this time.

Image Notes: a blend between a non-HDR single exposure (foreground is nearly all this frame) and a 7-exposure HDR (mostly sky).

Fire Forest Wildfire Rockies Rocky Mountains CO Colorado Larimer Cow Creek Fire Cow Creek Nature Landscape HDR Sky Smoke Forest Fire RMNP Stove Prairie Road Stove Prairie Rocky Mountain National Park Not taken in the park Nikon D300 Nikon 1755 2010 Michael Menefee National Park