2023 Colorado Fall Colors - Part 4

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More photos taken during the four days chasing the light in the San Juan Mountains in the Ouray/Telluride area as a participant in a workshop led by Joe Garza and Nick Selway

Olympus OM-1 camera with a 12-100mm f/4 lens at 23 mm
1/25 sec at f/13, ISO 400

Photos of a small patch of bent and curved Aspen trees in the Uncompahgre National Forest. It is speculated that an avalanche early in their growth cycle caused the trees to grow in a curve in order to find the sunlight necessary for survival.

Olympus OM-1 camera with a 12-100mm f/4 lens at 25 mm
1/25 sec at f/13, ISO 400

Olympus OM-1 camera with a 12-100mm f/4 lens at 29 mm
1/25 sec at f/13, ISO 400

Olympus OM-1 camera with a 12-100mm f/4 lens at 41 mm
1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 1250

Photo taken while standing a few feet from the entrance to my room on the second floor of the motel where I was staying in Ouray, CO.

Olympus OM-1 camera with a 12-100mm f/4 lens at 25 mm
1/1600 sec at f/4.5, ISO 1250

Somewhere in the vicinity of Red Mountain Pass, south of Ouray.

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.