I'd planned to head up to Sky Pond for dawn with my nephew and his girlfriend, but the overnight weather forecast made us reconsider. Instead, we drove up Trail Ridge Road. For a long while, it seemed like we'd end up in the cloud, but around treeline, we found ourselves above it (well, some of it at least).
The sun broke through around 20 minutes after sunrise, making for some nice conditions - I've not encountered cloud as nice as this hanging around RMNP before. It's normally all so blue, it seems!
And finally, a tighter composition on the jagged rocks seen in #3 - this time converted using Silver Efex Pro 2 (high structure, blue filter, a little grain added).
Wow, #4 rocks! Literally rocks! Such gorgeous rock structure exposed by those wonderful caressing clouds. This would look at home on the cover of Nat Geo or any other nature oriented magazine!
I think you got a beautiful early morning image there with #1. Like everyone else, I'm simply enamored with #4, though.
The clouds revealing what look like the teeth of a crosscut saw is just superb, and b&w was the perfect (and perhaps only) treatment this dramatic image deserved.
Wow, as much as I liked #1 when I scrolled down, I'm with everyone else on #4 -- simply awesome! When I saw the rocks in #3 I thought to myself, "Man, I hope he got a tight crop of that bit over there" and there they were in #4.
Dave - you're right about timing (or perhaps luck): the clouds blew off that ridge just a couple of minutes after I took the shot. It's funny - I'd looked at that same view any number of times and had never noticed the jagged rocks before yesterday. It was only the cloud that called it to attention.
Also - beware when photographing in RMNP. You may be under surveillance by one E. Stensland. Elsewhere on the internets, he said he wanted to see a very particular photograph I'd taken yesterday morning that I hadn't yet posted or mentioned anywhere. Sinister.
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16 repliesThe sun broke through around 20 minutes after sunrise, making for some nice conditions - I've not encountered cloud as nice as this hanging around RMNP before. It's normally all so blue, it seems!
Joe Rogers
The clouds revealing what look like the teeth of a crosscut saw is just superb, and b&w was the perfect (and perhaps only) treatment this dramatic image deserved.
Dave - you're right about timing (or perhaps luck): the clouds blew off that ridge just a couple of minutes after I took the shot. It's funny - I'd looked at that same view any number of times and had never noticed the jagged rocks before yesterday. It was only the cloud that called it to attention.
Also - beware when photographing in RMNP. You may be under surveillance by one E. Stensland. Elsewhere on the internets, he said he wanted to see a very particular photograph I'd taken yesterday morning that I hadn't yet posted or mentioned anywhere. Sinister.