Colorado

This picture is not enhanced in any way. It was underexposed because the sun off the aspens was so bright, but has not been touched - it is as it came from the camera. This was taken with a Minolta SR-T 201 film camera with a 55mm Minolta lens on Kodachrome 64 slide film and scanned with a Konica-Minolta Dual 4 slide scanner.

Taken near Lake Loveland, Loveland, Colorado. Taken with a Minolta SR-T 201 on Kodachrome 25 slide film. In Explore April 9, 2009, #112.

We will be away for a couple of weeks and posting will be sporadic or non-existent. We are driving to Michigan to see my 93 year old father and other family members and then are driving to Colorado for a long weekend and some hiking. The photo was taken taken at Diamond Lake in the Colorado Rockies over a year ago. Diamond Lake is in the Indian Peaks are of te Rockies where I was hiking with a cousin and is son. I did not have my camera, so took this with my phone.

This is Lily Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park just south of the town of Estes Park. We walked around there after heading south along highway 7.

My wife and I were in C0olorado for a few days in October and went up into the Rockies one of those days for some sightseeing and a drive. Following Highway 7 south we visited St. Catherine's Chapel on the Rock, a Roman Catholic chapel, open to visitors. We had failed to get into Rocky Mountain National Park since they now have a system of timed entries, and a drive south was the only alternative we could think of.

Lily Lake is in Rocky Mountain National Park south of the town of Estes Park, Long's Peak, the highest peak in the park at over 14,000 feet, is west of the lake. Long's Peak is the peak with the notch on the left side. Mount Meeker lies to its south.

Long's Peak is in the northern Colorado Rockies in Rocky Mountain National Park. At 14,256 feet, (4346 m) it is the highest peak in the park and is recognizable by the notch on its south side. Many years ago (1979) I climbed the peak with a friend (the second PIP is from that climb), the only Colorado fourteener I've climbed.