Panoramas

Alone

I absolutely love this Lone Tree! I think it's my favorite of all my Lone Trees. I first made this photo on 4x10 film. But when I started doing stitched pans with my digital cameras, I wanted to photograph it again. Never got the sky quite right. Then, one day it was. This image is essentially the same as the one I made with the 4x10. But it is much larger...its native size is nearly 12 feet wide. I made a 5-foot wide print and it hangs in my home. You can see this tree by driving south on Rte. 285 out of Fairplay on the way to Buena Vista.

Pink House - Mormons Row, Grand Teton National Park

I have made many trips to northwest Wyoming. To Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Into Grand Teton Park is an area known as Mormons Row. So often you see photos of a barn with the Tetons in the background. That barn is to the extreme right of where I made this photo. I've never been able to understand the allure of the barn. I've seen hundreds of photos of the barn, but never one of the pink house with the Tetons in the back. I love this photo. Every time I'm in the park, I go to this place to see what it's got for me. If something good, I make another panoramic image.

Gray House, Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park

Like the Pink House, this photo was made on Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park. Most people stop and make photos of the barn by the Pink House. Some venture down the dirt road, see this scene, turn around and walk back. I've never seen a photo of it before. So I made one myself. No clouds this time. But there will be...sometime!

Survivor

I call this lone tree "Survivor" because it managed to escape a wild fire that scorched a big patch of Daniels Park and surrounds more than 10 years ago. We were living in what is now Castle Pines and were told to evacuate. We spent the night in a Red Cross shelter in the Castle Rock High School. I went back after the fire and made a photo of the tree using a large format 8x10 view camera loaded with 4x10 film. I go back often. This photo is a stitched panorama. It's native size...the size of the final image after stitching...is around 5-feet wide and 2-feet high. But it can be printed at sizes that are both smaller and larger.

Big Hill, Small Tree

I've been making photos of lone trees since moving to Colorado a long time ago...more than 15 years, less than 20. I grew up in Northern New York and the northeastern states where it's so overgrown with trees it's rare to see a lone tree, much less one with such beautiful backdrops as in Colorado. This tree is south of Fairplay. I was happy that I was able to position it as I did. Too often when I try to compose a near/far image, it doesn't work.

Phoenix Tree

I call this Phoenix Tree because it is growing from the ruins of the tree that might have been hit by lightning and died. I drive by it often as I do my drive-abouts. It's south of Fairplay but north of Buena Vista on Rte. 285. There are a couple of 14-ers in the stormy background.

Windblown

This is another of my favorite Lone Trees. Nice rolling pasture. Mountains back and often a wonderful sky. I learned, long after my love affair started with this scene, that the snow-capped mountain in the background is Pikes Peak. From what I call the back side. It's between Woodland Park and Florissant.

Mount Sopris

At 12,966 feet in elevation, Mount Sopris is quite a bit short of a 14-er. But it sure looks like one. I was on my way to Aspen to see the Maroon Bells...two iconic 14-ers. I was wandering and saw this scene...cattle grazing and lounging with this beautiful mounting in the background. I made the images for this panorama. Then, luckily, a woman drove by and let me know what I was looking at. Then she made her own photo using her phone.

Phoenix Tree

This is another Photo of my Phoenix Tree. No storm over the mountains, but a very dramatic sky.

Sawtooths, North Sangre De Cristo Range

The Sangre De Cristo mountain range in southwest Colorado is home to eight 14-ers. It's also about 17 miles long...that's the part of the range in Colorado; it continues south into New Mexico. I've made panoramic photos of the entire range...they're huge! But I also have made several of this section...the very north end of the range. They are so dramatic.

Union Pass, Wyoming

I made this photo in October, on my most recent trip to the Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. I wasn't far from Jackson, but still wasn't able to see the Tetons. This scene stopped me in my tracks. I just had to make a panoramic photo of it. Cows grazing with huge snow-covered rock mountains in the background.

Lone Tree at Flatirons

I have kind of a love affair with the Flatirons just south of Boulder. More specifically the Flatirons with the little pine tree you see in the far right side of this image. There are often beautiful clouds there and when they are, I try to be there too.

Val's View

My wife's long time friend and her husband live in a magnificent house they built in Florissant. This is one of the views they have out what I call the front of the house. I made this from their roof. 90-degrees to the left is another magnificent mountain range. I like this one better.

Mirror Reservior

This is the only non-western states panorama in this portfolio. I was driving my Mother-in-Law's belongings from Topsail Island, North Carolina, to our place in Colorado. If I hadn't had to stop for a potty break at a large rest area on my way, I'd never have seen this photo. After "using the facilities," I did a walk about. Wow! this man-made lake was mirror smooth. Absolutely no wind. So...what did I do? You see it here. It's amazing. The water was a muddy brown, but it worked to enhance the mirror effect.