Friday, October 3, 2008

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Apache Peak, 2008


The Indian Peaks Wilderness and Arapaho National Forest border, to the south, the Rocky Mountains National Park on the Grand Lake area of the Park. The late afternoon sunlight on the clouds and far-off peaks gave the glow impossible to resist. When I took this image, I had still not reach the National Park and was eager to arrive there. My impatience might have cost me other, equally or more impressive, photographs of these peaks. Having only a day and a half, however, I had decided to stay with the known and leave exploring unknown areas for a later time. These views confirmed the worth of returning to explore the wilderness area south of the National Park at some point in the future.
About all I did to this photograph was increase the contrast to illuminate the clouds as they appeared at the time. Of course, I converted the original color to black and white.

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