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Fall in Colorado

Dec 19, 2023 Portfolio

Any longtime reader of this newsletter, or follower of my photography in general, will know autumn anywhere, and especially in Colorado, is a favorite subject of mine. Ok, and the bison. Always bison. 

The weather is pleasant, but the cool nights signal the pending winter. The mountains are still accessible, but snow is often falling up high on the tallest peaks. The crowds are (mostly) gone. And the season’s colors stretch out over weeks here. The color can start in mid-September at higher elevations and last into November at the lower ones. No other season spreads itself out so nicely.

It’s been unseasonably warm this December in Denver, reminiscent more of early fall than almost winter. So, with fall officially ending this week, I am sharing a collection of fall photos taken around Colorado this season.

Plus, I figured your inbox could use an email that doesn’t highlight shipping deadlines and last-minute gift card options. Conveniently for you, I come to your inbox selling nothing.

Happy holidays.

All photos from fall 2023.

The Denver skyline at sunrise.
Cottonwood Pass. Fewer crowds means you can somewhat safely stand in the middle of the highway to take photos.
Walkers at Sloan’s Lake on the western edge of Denver. Fun fact: We don’t know where Sloan’s Lake came from. It apparently wasn’t here when Denver was being settled, but later it was and there is no accurate account of how it came to be. The first amusement park west of the Mississippi also graced its shores until 1914.
Looking through a hole in a rock at Mt Princeton, a 14,000-foot peak.
A lone rower on Sloan’s Lake.
Along the Arkansas River.
An early morning runner at City Park and Ferril Lake. Located on the eastern edge of Denver, it is the largest park in Denver.
Mt Massive, another 14,000-foot peak, and the second highest peak in the state.
Mt Hope and Rinker Peak at Mt Elbert Forebay.
A goose.
A total random story: A few days prior I had dropped (more like flung) my largest and most expensive lens on accident. I was a *little* upset, the type of minor upset-ness that causes a lot of curse words and regrets. Anyway, miraculously, it didn’t break. I tested it at home and it seemed to work in a controlled environment, but I needed to get some real-world photographs to put my mind at ease before a big trip I had coming up. So, while I didn’t go out this morning to photograph wildlife, I brought the lens along just in case and was quite happy to have a steady wildlife subject to confirm the lens still worked.

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