Another Red Peak Sunrise

Here's another from the same area looking at Red Peak...

New Mobile Website

Just for fun...
A friend has developed a mobile version of BaconPhoto.com. Check it out!

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We've played with, er... um..., tested it on iPhone, mobile IE, Opera Mini, and Blackberry browsers. All seem to work quite well.

Let me know what you think.

First Light on Red Peak

Earlier this month I'd planned on spending a weekend backpacking at Willow Lakes, in the Eagles Nest Wilderness - a place that has been on my "must photograph" list for a long time. Unfortunately, I had to cancel/postpone that trip, yet again. I couldn't get that location out of my mind and I just couldn't bear to let it slip away, yet again, this summer. So yesterday I woke at 1:15am and drove to the trailhead and hit the trail. Roughly 5.5 miles of hiking in the dark landed me at the location shown below at just the right time.

First Light on Red Peak ~ Eagles Nest Wilderness

I'll post more images from this area later this week...

Paradise B&W

Watanga Mountain and an Unnamed Spire - Paradise Park, Rocky Mountain National Park

Ten Lake Park

Another location from the Paradise Park trip a couple weeks ago. This is sunset at Ten Lake Park...

And a vertical, if you prefer...

Frost in July

We spent our last night at Ten Lake Park (yes, there are 10 lakes - at least) and we woke to a crisp, fresh and slightly frosty morning. And yes, this is July in the Rockies - at 11,250 feet elevation! We had mostly cloudless skies and our location shadowed us from the early morning sun. So my attention turned to the minute details of the frost edging the wildflowers leaves and lacing the tundra.

Bistort and Globefower...

The leaves of the Globeflower remind me of Strawberry plants and looked beautiful trimmed in frost...

I shot the above image at the extent of my Canon EF 24-105 L f/4's macro capabilities. But we can take advantage of the Canon 5D MarkII's megapixels and zoom in with a severe crop. Of course, the image below will not hold its detail for large prints, but it is wonderful to look at on the web...

And here's one more where you can see the frozen crystals on the tundra...

I could have stayed here admiring these frosty details for hours. But we had a long day of hiking in front of us, and of course the frost disappeared the instant the sun touched us.

As beautiful as the morning was, packing up a wet and frosty camp is not a lot of fun - cold, wet hands and sloppy, soaked equipment...

Watanga Mountain Sunrise

A spectacular sunrise to start off our 3rd day in Paradise Park...