Colorado Fall Colors - October 2023

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I was a participant in a Fall Colors Photography Workshop led by Joe Garza and Nick Selway last week. We spent four days chasing the light in the San Juan Mountains in the Ouray/Telluride area. My next few blog posts will illustrate some of the scenes we encountered.
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Mount Wilson (14,252 feet) is the highest summit of the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains. This image is a panoramic composite of four exposures obtained with an Olympus OM-1 camera and the 12-100mm f/4 lens at 21 mm. Settings: 1/100 sec at f/14, ISO 400

Another view of Mount Wilson from a different location and in different light conditions. Olympus OM-1 camera, 12-100mm f/4 lens at 29 mm. A single exposure - 1/250 sec at f/11, ISO 640.

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.