Shooting Colorado is a Joy!

Every season in Western Colorado offers challenges as well as great visionary delights.  Even in the dead of Winter you have a variety of Photo Ops that are rivaled by few locations.  


Last Sunday, my husband Ron and I traveled about 30 miles along Highway 550 from our home in Montrose, CO to the City of Ouray, called America's Little Switzerland.  Ouray is a unique and beautiful setting any time of the year and is really a tourist mecca nestled in the wonderful San Juan Mountains.  It has great restaurants, pastry and sandwich shops as well as one of a kind stores.  

It was February 12th and our target was the Ouray Ice Park, home of the Annual Ice Climbing Festival and Competition in January.   Although the competition was well over, there were still lots of climbers and many young students just learning the required skills.

It was a breathtakingly beautiful day, overcast and chilly, but well worth the trek.  Sparkling ice fields and dramatic icicles were the highlights of the day. 

See this Mapquest map to find out how to get there.  

http://mapq.st/w0EJ88

You'll be happy you visited Ouray no matter what time of the year you go!

Artist Statement:

I love photography (both film and digital) because it empowers me to share my vision of the world and to introduce new and innovative perspectives on the commonplace and sometimes unseen aspects of our world. 

I usually concentrate my efforts on macro or abstract images that give me license to exaggerate or amplify them.  I want viewers to say, ‘Wow!  I’ve never imagined or looked at it that way!”  

Photography makes me stretch the limits of nature and my own knowledge and talent to attempt to always go a step farther.