Pretty quiet here on the east side of the fire, but about 2:00 they had the fire make a run at the SW corner of the fire area. They hit it with 3 different aircraft, […]

Well, on the one hand, (luckily for me) the 39 degree temperature and 40+ mph gusts down here in town kept me from hiking to the top of any mountains tonight. On the other hand, […]

This afternoon at about 3 pm, the winds reached their peak for the day, and the smoke got very thick here in the Mtn. Ridge subdivision. Tate was home sick, so I was a captive […]

Wanting to get a better feel for where the fire actually was, after dark I headed up Lookout Mountain to see what I could see. As of midnight, the fire hasn’t crested the ridge to […]

After spending the weekend up in the mountains for Reade’s 12th Birthday ski party, we came home to find a wildfire burning the hillside adjacent to our subdivision. When I quit taking pics at about […]

Last week I got together with Dr. Eva Strube of Avenue Vision here in Golden to create some marketing images for use primarily on their recently revamped website. I was able to watch Dr. Strube […]

So, what color was the piece of paper in yesterday’s post? There is no way to tell from the picture posted; it could have been black, white, or any shade of grey! Although camera meters […]

Although this one has been oft-described in camera manuals and photo ‘how-to’ books galore, I wanted to cover the subject in a bit of detail, as it can be helpful to understand just a little […]

Severe high pressure over Colorado for the last few days has given way to some bluebird skies following the abundant winter storms in recent weeks. While Heidi took the boys to A-Basin to ski today, […]

In yesterday’s image, I overtly gave a frame of reference (swim meet) that led to the covert suggestion that the image was of the wet tile floor near the pool. Here is a 90-degree shift […]

So, there we were. Saturday morning, weather people called for 1-4″, we got 12″ instead. Early AM swim meet in Evergreen? OK, we’re game! So, amidst the 3 hours of waiting in between events, something […]

For those of you with DSLRs who are unsure of why anyone would want to use the raw file format, I thought I’d give a quick example of one of the primary benefits of shooting […]