Travel Day — September 7, 2009
We had intended to travel a relatively short distance on Labor Day and camp in the mountains south of Glenwood Springs. A few days before, though, we changed our minds and decided that we wanted to travel a little further and camp near Ouray, Colorado.
Ouray is one of our favorites. A small mountain town, it has escaped most of the commercialization that many Colorado towns have experienced, yet tourism has helped keep it from withering away as has happened to many other old Colorado mining towns. Ouray is situated in a small valley and is surrounded closely by high mountains.
Our trip for the day took us along the foothills through Boulder, but west of Denver, to I70, then across the state to US 50 South out of Grand Junction and then US 550 to Ouray.
I took a few photos at stops along the way, but, unfortunately, I wasn’t paying attention to the camera settings and they didn’t turn out. Karen took a few pictures as we were moving down the road and I’ve included three of them below.
Photos:
(click on any of the following photos to view a larger image.)
Along I70 east of Grand Junction
Approaching the San Juan Mountains
Rocky Mountain National Park
House and yard atop a barren hill
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Ouray, Colorado
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I love the photo of Rocky Mountain National Park. The trees look so peaceful.
Ouray looks like a lovely place. You have some really small towns in America Mike – over here, they would probably be called villages.
Hi Rose – Thanks. The leaves are probably gone off the hardwoods by now. We were at around 9,000 to 10,000 feet when I took that picture.
Cath – It is a nice little town. We’ve stayed there for about a week two different times in small motels. There are a lot of people who go there for the jeep trails — old roads through the high country that are so rough that only high-clearance four wheel drive vehicles should attempt them.
The photos are gorgeous.
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Vered – Thanks! (and Karen says “thank you,” too.)
Those all look really great to me, not sure how different settings would have made them better.
You have a good eye for composition using the 1/3 “rule,” how the eye naturally falls upon a line. Is that something you are conscious of from photography training or more of an innate thing?
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lovely pics mike. love this one: Ouray, Colorado
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Hi Mike,
From looking at the photos, it looks like you’ve seen some beautiful country. I love how Ouray sits in the valley. It looks so peaceful.
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Jannie – Thanks. It’s actually a little of both. I’ve been taking pictures since the late 60s. I don’t generally think about composition when I’m taking a photo or cropping the image. When I first got into 35mm photography in the early 80s, I did a lot of studying on the subject and, since it was before the internet, I bought a number of books on photography. I also took 2 semesters of photography in the late 80s as electives at the local university while working on my degree.
natural and Barbara – Thanks!