Tag Archives: Colorado
This year was the inaugural running of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which is essentially the Tour of Colorado. This event is a big deal for cycling-rabid Colorado, and I made sure to head up into the mountains and catch some of the action. I decided that the Stage 3 Vail Time Trial would be...
Full gallery of Valmont Bike Park Photos on Facebook. There is a new biking game in the town of Boulder, and it’s called Valmont Bike Park. This is a public park where riders of all ages and abilities can come out and play and work on their skills. I’m an old school BMX kid from...
Jayme and I headed to Breckenridge over the Fourth of July weekend to escape the heat, ride our bikes, and enjoy some fireworks. I was impressed with the all of the potential photo shoot locations in the historic downtown area, and spent some time playing with lighting and composition. Fortunately for me, Jayme is a...
You know life is good when your daily job assignment is to hit the Boulder trails with a cute dog and an even cuter girl for a photo shoot. Even after pinching myself, I still found that I’d been contracted to shoot the cover for Colorado outdoor sports and lifestyle magazine Elevation Outdoors. EO is...
I went to Salida to shoot a wedding. At the end of town is a large cone like hill with a big S on it. There is a road called Spiral Drive where you can drive to the top. Once at the top, there is a white, empty building with a view.
Here we are with my final Telluride post. I’m going to have to find some local fun to keep this blog going over the next month! River and I took a little drive out of town to the micro-town of Ophir. I was quite excited to find some trashed out buildings to play in. The...
Telluride is full of all sorts of marvlicious randomness. And you know how I love to take photos of randomness! About a block from the gondola in town is a house, with a fence made of skis, and a pile of random junk lying in the yard. And amongst the random junk is a mid...
After my wedding on Wednesday I got out for a quick hike from the town of Telluride. The weather was unbelievably schizophrenic, and it would change from sun to rain about every 3 minutes. I walked with only my 45mm Tilt Shift Lens, always looking to tie together compositional elements. Steve-Z.com = perspective misalignment!
On the drive to Telluride, we passed through the town of Delta, Colorado. Just another ambiguous small town on the Western Slope, there are only three reasons for a passer-though to stop: Food, gas, or possibly some crystal meth. When I saw this lot full of rusted out vintage cars, I realized that there is...
If you drive to Ouray, there is an overlook over town, where you can take the same photo that 8 million other people have already taken. 7,999,999 of them do not have the focal plane aligned with Main Street, however.
Aw. A sunset. Isn’t that special? Well, it was pretty schweet. I took these photos from the deck of a shirtless tattooed dude. He offered us snow peas that were growing on the deck along with a lot of tomatoes. He showed us the shelves where he started them in March. He says that he...
Here we are at the grand finale of Steve and Mel’s Great Sand Dunes adventure! In case you haven’t been following along, so far we’ve seen: Chapter 1 – Sunrise Landscapes Chapter 2 – Afternoon Planning Chapter 3 – Dune Camping & Night Shots Having checked out the appetizers, let’s dive into the main course;...
After shooting the sunrise photos, Melissa and I headed up to the dunes for some hiking and sandboarding. What is sand boarding you ask?!? Well, the dunes are steep enough to actually ride down on skis or a snowboard. I chose an old snowboard, since there doesn’t seem to be anything fun about hiking up...
We drove into the Great Sand Dunes National Park after nightfall. I didn’t really know what to expect, exactly. I did know that the dunes were only going to photograph well at sunrise and sunset. On the first morning my internal clock woke me up at first light. I found out that it was going...
June 5th was National Trails Day, and I lent some photographing skills to help promote the creation and maintenance of our local trail network. Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance hosted a big trail building day at Betasso Preserve. In case you didn’t know, Betasso is getting a brand new loop, called the Benjamin Trail, that will...
I set out on a good old fashioned road trip last week. It was part of a staycation that was the result of a visit from an out of the country friend. We headed down to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. The dunes are one of those places that I’ve been meaning to...
Well there hasn’t been too much blogging around here lately! I’ve been busy shooting a lot of fall and holiday portraits, and generally wrapping up 2009. I’m looking forward to a big trip down to Mexico in two weeks. So while the main goal will be rest and relaxation, you know I’ll have some pictures...
