I rode shotgun (in the front passenger seat) to and from Steamboat. Rather than gaze out the windows at lost images streaming past, I practiced firing my canons at the landscapes through dirty glass and snow showers. I focused out and beyond the the spotted windows, adjusted settings quickly, made each image and then looked ahead to find the next view.

This sort of practice can be good for me. Don’t think, just do it fast.

In some captures I allowed a fence post or tree to blur in the foreground as we raced by. In others I went for the more distant view without the telltale blur of foreground objects.

Favorites are in the gallery below.  Some will be kept to remind me of places I’d like to return to when I’m driving and the purpose of the trip is to hunt images and make frequent stops.

Click the first photo to start, then click next.

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December moon,
Birds, Beeves, and Trees,
The Dodge again . . .

Last week on a trip to visit my husband’s parents I was able to photograph the old Dodge again. I also captured birds, beeves, trees and the moon in between our visits and family celebrations.

A cow blocked my way at the gate. She was so close I was afraid to turn my back on her horns to latch the gate. But she quickly lost interest in me.

I loved photographing the trees, so different from our trees at home.

I captured several images of the Dodge, like this one at sunset.

A few autumn leaves still clung to the trees at the river.

At the nearest point to earth in its orbit, the full moon appeared larger than any this year.

I liked the sky’s color at sunset the night before the full moon.

That’s all!

Black swans, a peacock, and my friend in the primate house were some of the images captured at the hotel lake and the nearby mountain zoo on my recent stay in Colorado Springs.

The arrival day, I was there just after sunrise for the lift-offs of several groups of geese from the lake.  I practiced panning.

I tried to vary the shooting locations and subjects to get as much out of the short trip as possible. I visited three area parks, a canyon park, a creek park, and the big rock garden of my previous posts. I also spent part of an afternoon at the zoo photographing animals and a little time around the lake at the hotel with the beautiful black swans.

The last day there I spent an afternoon hiking along a creek on a birding loop trail but the afternoon yielded little other than exercise and some random shots of ice in the creek. An unfamiliar bird song was heard faintly as I was getting in the car, She’s leaving, twee-hee.