The View From 525

Colorado Winter Activities 2014 Part I

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever, Winter Activities] [Photos are grouped in galleries which will provide 'Exif' info for those interested. Click on any photo to enlarge and view group in a slide show.  Photo info is in lower right corner, as is 'View full size'.  View full and zoom again for extra detail. …

Summit County FAREWELL TO AUTUMN, parting shotz

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Travel Photography.] Photography 101 Forever, of course. If you have hung in there for my Summit County Autumn series, THANK YOU!  I will give you a break after this post.  In the future I'll try to post better photos, should I take any, and less of my poorer photos (I have plenty of …

Dog, Dove, and Depth of Field (Caw! Caw!) (Tesla)

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Travel Photography.] [Click on pictures to enlarge.  Click on enlargement to get realllllly big.  Find your way back to this page somehow.  🙂 ] PHOTOGRAPHY 101 FOREVER, of course. Following is a bit of miscellany taken between the autumn color shots during the last month. DOG: Exposure experiment: Just dog: DOVE and DOF …

Summit County Mid-Late Autumn – Photography 101 forever

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Travel Photography.] [Click on pictures to enlarge.  Click on enlargement to get realllllly big.  Find your way back to this page somehow.  🙂 ]Yes it is barely a week since I posted about early autumn in Colorado but things change fast here.  My guess is a decent Colorado autumn averages about 2 weeks, though …

Sunset calling

[CATEGORY: Photography] Sunset is calling. Calling from my iPhone that is. All photos and videos shown here taken with my iPhone5. (P.S. Posting with Blogsy from an iPad2 is a pain.) "This world is on fi-yer" (Thank you Alicia.) (Kudos to the first person that gets the reference.) The sky wasn't blazing quite as much …

FRESH POW, Powder Skiing, Copper Mountain Colorado, 05Mar2013, Part DEUX

[POW: Ski culture vernacular for powder snow.  This isn't about gun control.] It SHOULD have been a powder day. There was a brief but fierce  blizzard in Summit County Monday 4Mar2013 with 2 major pile-ups on I-70 near Silverthorne. Views from the condo Monday afternoon post-blizzard and Tuesday morning were beautiful: (On my Macbook I …

Travel Theme: Foliage

It's the end of autumn in Summit County, Colorado.  Here is a belated entry to the Where's My Backpack non-sweepstakes.  Winter is coming and soon there will be snow in them thar' hills. (Click on photos to enlarge and use your browser back button to return to this page.) I have sent the SX200 off …

Views from Angler Mt. Trail, Summit County Colorado

Hiked mid-day today, 2 Oct. 2012.  The fun never stops.  Enjoying that autumn weather while it lasts.  It won't be long.  This trail is above Silverthorne in the north part of the county, east of Highway 9 affording incredible views to the west. [Click to enlarge each picture individually.  (Zooming while enlarged can be interesting.) …

Autumn 2012 in Summit County, Colorado

It has been a drop-dead gorgeous, bee-yoo-ti-ful, autumn this year. Summit County includes the towns or resorts of Silverthorne, Dillon, Keystone, Frisco, Breckenridge, and Copper Mountain. There's a lot of hiking, biking, boating, et al in the summer. Winter there is skiing at Breck, Keystone, Copper, A-Basin, Loveland to the east, and Vail/Beaver Creek to …