Rocky Mountains

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Rocky Mountains

Postby darklightphotography on Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:23 pm

I found myself working last week in Boulder, Colorado so on my day off I drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park. Awesome place, would have liked to stay longer.

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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby Div on Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:43 pm

Wow what secenery!

#1 for me is the pick. Nice line, hopping rocks straight to those snow capped mountains.

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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby Marvin on Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:14 pm

I love the first one too. Looks like a beautiful place.
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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby fozzie on Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:28 pm

Kevin - what a magical place, and #1 is just awesome :)
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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby Big V on Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:51 pm

Kevin, fantastic scenery and th elast is too funny. Dont you love it when work allows you to visit nice places.
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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby bigsarg7 on Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:45 am

well done! lovely place! number 1 for me too! there's just so much to capture the eye....mountains, the stream thats beginning to freeze over, just lots to keep my attention! fantastic! Would love to see more!
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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby the foto fanatic on Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:33 am

Yep, the first one is a cracker!
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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby surenj on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:23 pm

Kevin, that first one is very nice. You could bump the contrast a touch though.

The colors are so foreign... Is that ice on that lake? :shock:
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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby Alex on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:27 pm

Kevin,

The first one is trully magnificent. Would expect to see something like this on a high quality ad material.

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Re: Rocky Mountains

Postby darklightphotography on Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:39 am

Thanks guys! #1 is my fave as well. I only had 1/2 a day, so I tried more to experience the place than do more serious photography. The colours are something that struck me about the place, everything is so vivid and different from here.

It is indeed ice on the water, I remember lying on it to get the angle. Later it was more like waist deep snow. Luckily I had gloves and a hat, although leaving them at the hotel on this day wasn't so clever.

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Bear Lake was as far as the road was open. Here's where I learned that the hood on a Nikon 24-70 makes an awesome snow scoop.
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