An elk cooling off in a lake near Estes Park CO with a mountain as the backdrop.

#BlueSkyMonday
#EstesParkCO
#TimelineCleanse

Map showing locations of the “No Kings 2.0” protests to be held in Colorado on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.

#NoKings 2.0
Saturday, October 18th, 2025

#NoKingsColorado
(Part 2 of 5)

#CastleRockCO
#CentennialCO
#ColoradoSpringsCO
#CommerceCityCO
#CortezCO
#DenverCO
#DurangoCO
#EdwardsCO
#ErieCO
#EstesParkCO

Link:
www.nokings.org

Day 203. Moonset 🌕⛰️ Estes Park, CO

#4yearslongproject #moon
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#estespark #estesparkcolorado #nikonusa #estesparkphotographer #estesparkco

Map showing locations of the “Good Trouble Lives On” protests to be held in Colorado on Thursday, July 17th, 2025.

#GoodTroubleLivesOn
Thursday, July 17th, 2025

#GTLOColorodo
(Part 2 of 4)

#DenverCO
#ErieCO
#EstesParkCO
#FairplayCO
#FortCollinsCO
#FriscoCO
#GoldenCO
#GrandJunctionCO
#GreeleyCO
#HighlandsRanchCO

Link:
goodtroubleliveson.org

#BlueSkyArtShow #Lines
#EstesParkCo

I've been going to Estes Park for one reason or another since 1979. This is a view from Prospect Mountain, high above the town proper, safe from flooding but not from fire. If I could have figured out a way to live there early on I would have, and in 2004, I almost did. A teaching position opened up at a college back East though, so I left there in August of 2004. I love this town. Resilience stems from Estes, in my imagination. From my notebooks; a post: "Between a fire just a few years ago which took out much of the historic district of Estes Park, and the recent massive flooding, the high mountain town has experienced much devastation . My best wishes and prayers to all my friends who are there, working to rebuild and to reclaim their land, homes, businesses, and hearts." ≈ to my friends in Estes Park, 2013 Windswept pines over a hundred years old cling to the rocky outcroppings of Prospect Mountain. Two of them are framing the town of Estes Park below. Colors are all muted buffs, grays, and browns save for the tree in the foreground and the needles of the tree on the right. Those have deeper, richer greens and the bark is a strong deep reddish brown. MacGregor Ridge is in the far distance, about two miles away as the crow flies.

“Nest over Estes” from #America:Lost&Found #HybridWorks
#TomOgburn #MultimediaArtist #DigitalArt #Photography #BlueskyArt #Skyart #BlueskyPhotography #Landscape #BlueSky #Nature
To see my multimedia work: @bardicarts.bsky.social
#EastCoastKin🦋#scapes #RockyMountainNP #EstesParkCO #naturephotography

"Estes Pinnacle Pine," from a perch above town I always walk to within a day or so on first arriving back. Digital photo from August 2000 on a Canon A5. One of the first digital cameras to actually take a great image for 1995. Can anyone picture that little camera still? The image is of a very large stunted pine perched on a windswept cliff, the golden gray-greenish rock formations so prevalent all around the area, jutting up in what is now weathered clusters. I've never worked this image up into any of the digital builds I've made for the 'South by Southwest,' 'America: Lost & Found,' or 'Roadscape' series. The Canon A5 made great images for its day, but within a few years, the small scale of the images, the low resolution of 180ppi & quirky slow motion processing time between shots made it a labor of love to work with by 1999. By then I'd learned to work with its strengths & overlook its faults. I became really attached to it, in time, over he next eight years, buying them up off of eBay when ever I saw one. By 1999, they were selling for $25-35; by 2005? $5 for one bought in original shrink-wrapped box, mint condition! I'll add this & end my praise for it: I bought it by default while I was down in New Orleans, February 1996, helping an artist friend move there. He paid $1680.00 for it, hated it within an hour, cursed up a blue streak (not something never done in the Crescent City) & swore it was a piece of...well... it wasn't. I offered him $1500 for it & he tossed it across the room to me. I bought it mainly to make images of my paintings for the internet, my sales & collectors' records. Within a year, I found it could take some interesting shots. To me, it's the Diana of the digital cameras. I'll be unpacking the mint condition ones soon, to add a tier to 'The Parkways Projects," in which I'm photographing the Blue Ridge & Skyline Drive parkways currently & telling the story of seven family vacations through the turbulent 1960's to 1972, and more...

"Estes Pinnacle Pine," 2025 #HybridWorks #Art #DigitalCompositeImage #RockyMountainNationalPark
#treetuesday #rockytuesday #woodland #Colorado
#EstesParkCO is deeply missedI'm in SC, working on this: @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social 🦉🍁 #FineArt
#EastCoastKin #Landscape #DigitalArt #Nature #Bluesky

"Estes Pinnacle Pine," from a perch above town I always walk to within a day or so on first arriving back. Digital photo from August 2000 on a Canon A5. One of the first digital cameras to actually take a great image for 1995. Can anyone picture that little camera still? The image is of a very large stunted pine perched on a windswept cliff, the golden gray-greenish rock formations so prevalent all around the area, jutting up in what is now weathered clusters. I've never worked this image up into any of the digital builds I've made for the 'South by Southwest,' 'America: Lost & Found,' or 'Roadscape' series. The Canon A5 made great images for its day, but within a few years, the small scale of the images, the low resolution of 180ppi & quirky slow motion processing time between shots made it a labor of love to work with by 1999. By then I'd learned to work with its strengths & overlook its faults. I became really attached to it, in time, over he next eight years, buying them up off of eBay when ever I saw one. By 1999, they were selling for $25-35; by 2005? $5 for one bought in original shrink-wrapped box, mint condition! I'll add this & end my praise for it: I bought it by default while I was down in New Orleans, February 1996, helping an artist friend move there. He paid $1680.00 for it, hated it within an hour, cursed up a blue streak (not something never done in the Crescent City) & swore it was a piece of...well... it wasn't. I offered him $1500 for it & he tossed it across the room to me. I bought it mainly to make images of my paintings for the internet, my sales & collectors' records. Within a year, I found it could take some interesting shots. To me, it's the Diana of the digital cameras. I'll be unpacking the mint condition ones soon, to add a tier to 'The Parkways Projects," in which I'm photographing the Blue Ridge & Skyline Drive parkways currently & telling the story of seven family vacations through the turbulent 1960's to 1972, and more

1️⃣ "Estes Pinnacle Pine," Hybrid series photo Aug 2000 #DigitalCompositeImage built this week for #BlueSkyArtShow
#RockyMountainNationalPark #Colorado

#EstesParkCO is deeply missed as I'm in SC, working on this: @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social 🦉🍁

#Scape #EastCoastKin #Landscape #DigitalArt #FineArt ⬇️

Wonderful haul yesterday at the Whiskey Warm-up 2024 in Estes Park CO. Lot's of vendors with lots of wonderful product! #Whiskey #EstesParkCO