While on the subject of the Rockies, I thought I would add a photograph from my 2001 visit. This is aview of Mt. Stratus (left) and Mt. Nimbus (center-right), in the Never Summer Range, as seen from Trail Ridge Road on the western side of the Rockies. The horizontal line along the bottom of the photograph is the Grand Ditch, which diverts water from west of the Continental Divide to the east.
One habit I have is wanting to return to the place where I took some of my favorite photographs. It isn't that I hope to take another "great" photograph, just that I enjoy seeing how the view "actually" looks. I remember the view by the photograph and the mood it inspired. Obviously, I thought the mood at the time quite dramatic. I knew I had been lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
I didn't make it to the point where this photograph was taken when I returned last month. I just ran out of time. Given why this happened, I can't say I was too disappointed. By the time I could have driven to this location, the setting sun would have made a quality photograph difficult. It is one (of many) reasons I have to return.
Unlike the 2008 photographs, this was not taken with a digital camera. At the time, I didn't own a digital camera (short of a 320x240 one that relied on my laptop) and this is a scan of the 4x5 black and white negative. I have several black and white negatives from this trip - not as many as I now take with a digital camera, of course. As is true of any digital photograph (or non-digital one, for that matter), the contrast has been adjusted and I have erased some of the minor blemishes that appeal on the negative (or the scan).
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