April 2009 Theme - Springtime

This months topic comes courtesy of Dave Showalter (fyi - if anyone out there has ideas for topics just shoot em to Rene & me). Let's see some of the reasons we all love springtime in our collection of states.

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Here's one from last spring. This is Fall River in RMNP beginning to thaw, just above Chasm Falls.

Love the detail in that shot Erik!

Here's one from my favorite springtime spot, the Capitol Creek Road outside of Aspen. The False Hellebore there is some of the best around.

Wow!
You two are extremely hard acts to follow!!

O.k., now I'm not even going to post. Thanks guys.

Very good, Erik.
Absolutely incredible, Brent.

OK, those two images are going to be hard act to follow! But here goes...

This image has always said, "springtime!" to me. New red oak leaves in our back yard, taken back in the film days with a Canon EOS-1 and Tokina 100mm macro lens on Fuji Velvia 100.

Pretty cool shot here, Mr. Can-I-Buy-A-Vowel! And that Doerzman is a classic. Nice one by you, too, Erik.

Another monthly theme getting off to a great start! Nice work, guys!

Here's one that languished in a shoebox for 10 years or so until I scrounged it last fall. The proof 4x6 was so dull that I initially had no hope for it. Luckily, I didn't toss it. Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, in March of '98 or thereabouts. Kodak PMC 6059 neg film. Trusty old Baby Graphic with 65mm f8 Super Angulon.

Here is one from 2005...for me, this sums up "Spring" in Colorado...

Boy these are a hard act to follow, love Brent's image!. This one is really digging from the archives, taken back in 2002 using an EOS 3 and Velvia (scanning it "almost" made me want to shoot film again). This is Golden Banner with the Flatirons as a backdrop.

Very nice stuff so far.........

"Spring Leaves in Picture Canyon" is an April image from the southern "Carrizo" unit of Comanche National Grassland. It was raining when I made this image and the road turned to gumbo on the way out.

Sweet shot, Dave, love the textures!

Here's another springy shot, from the upper Escalante Gorge, Utah, May 2006. Kodak UC400 neg film.

Spring runoff on the Little Colorado River in N. Arizona.

Wow, John, that's the best image of Grand Falls I've seen. Nice work.

Here's spring around Tucson

These themes could each make for nice book - beautiful work all around. Here's a contribution from around Hanksville, UT. The strong vignetting was a result of not having my lens zeroed out properly on the 4x5 (plus it was an 80mm lens...). But, I liked it, so I kept it.

One more from my new locale. Mt. Ranier Nat'l Park.

wow! Rick, talk about raising the bar. Here are my images of what Springtime means for me in the San Juan Mountains, and Utah. The first photo was taken in Yankee Boy Basin outside of Ouray, Colorado.

The second photo was taken in The Canyonlands area.

just zoom in once when the window opens to see the image in the right size. This is a first for me, so I hope you all enjoy the photos. Thanks again.
Chad Dees

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Nice stuff here folks.
Rick, I love that Hanksville shot!
This one is from the Hall Ranch near Lyons last Spring.

Great shots everyone. Makes me feel like venturing outdoors again! Here's one of my favorite spring shots from Arches NP.

I guess it would help if I actually included an image!

To me, the spring means wet heavy snow that melts by the next day.

75mm f8 Super Angulon, 4X5 E100G, 81B filter

I agree with Mel. Springtime in Colorado means heavy, wet snow. I took this shot Friday evening in the middle of the snowstorm.

Canon 5D, 24-105mm, f8

I had the chance to get my color negative film scanned, so have the same scene as above without the falloff killing the corners. This is on some slightly outdated Fuji NPS160 I picked up (cheap) so that I could have some color negative quickloads. The other LF color neg film I've got is Portra 400NC and I like the Portra a bit better.

Scanned in Epson Scan.

Some nice shots all around! I have an image taken from Guy Schmickle's tripod holes, but it's not as good, so I better not post it here. Instead I'll post one taken not too far from Rick Dunn's tripod holes (and probably taken the same year).

After seeing all these fantastic shots, I feel like a little fish in a big pond, but I will post all I have right now that reminds me of spring, and is one of the reasons I love spring. If I see a butterfly somewhere, I will probably try to photograph it.

I suppose flowers are more typically associated with spring even though they aren't part of the local vernacular of spring. So here are some cheery lupines and arnicas.

I know it's nowhere near the Rocky Mountains, but in my opinion there's just no better place to be than the Texas Hill Country in the spring. Summer's beastly heat hasn't begun; the bugs aren't too bad yet; and the late-evening light just wraps itself around the landscape, giving everything a warm, soft glow. Oh, and the wildflowers are out of this world in a good year.

This is my mom's "front yard" near Llano, TX in a really good year. Taken with a Hassleblad 500 C/M and 50mm lens on Fuji Reala film. Scanned twice - once for the foreground; and once for the sky.

Awesome collection of photos so far, everyone!

Here's one of some cottonwoods in Courthouse Wash (Arches) viewed from above.

Finally some signs of spring have returned to Colorado Springs too. Shot yesterday at the Garden.

4X5 E100VS, Nikon 300f9M

One last spring blizzard shot.

4X5 Portra 400NC, Nikon 300/9M f45, 8 seconds