Colorado Landscape Photography Prints
I keep coming back to Colorado every October, mostly to the San Juan Mountains, which I consider the best aspen country in the lower 48. Fall color, the Sneffels Range and quieter forest scenes.
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Colorado Landscape Photography
The San Juan Mountains
Most of these prints come from the San Juans of southwestern Colorado, which I consider the best aspen country in the lower 48. I keep going back every October. At 9,000 to 10,000 feet the color can run just 10 days from first yellow to bare branches, so every trip is a bet on timing.
San Juan Glow is from the high ranch country on the edge of the range, where three lone aspens stand in an open meadow while the peaks behind them go from orange to deep rose.
Dallas Divide and the Sneffels Range
The Dallas Divide sits at 8,900 feet with the Sneffels Range on the north horizon. In a good year an early storm dusts the peaks while the aspens below are still gold. Dallas Divide Sunrise is one of those mornings.
Sneffels Gold is the same range at sunset in late September, with fresh snow on the high ridges. Fall along the Sneffels Range looks across the valley on a clear fall morning.
Owl Creek and the Aspen Groves
At Owl Creek Overlook the conifers sit at the bottom of the frame, the aspens climb the mid-slopes in waves of gold, and gray cliffs rise above them. Aspen Color and the panoramic Aspen Color Pano show the same high country at peak.
Get in close and the trees become the subject. Curved Aspen shows trunks bent by wind and snow. Colorado Fall Color catches a grove about a week before peak, with green and gold still mixed. Last Leaves drops the color altogether: pale bark against a dark forest, and a few leaves still holding on.
Planning a trip? My Colorado aspen guide covers peak color by elevation and the places I shoot in the San Juans.
Mountain Ponds and Still Water
Small ponds in the high country double everything in them. Evergreen Reflections was made on an afternoon with no wind, the evergreens and a scree slope mirrored in the water. Circle of Life pairs a dead Engelmann spruce with a sapling growing from the stump beside it, and Engelmann's Spruce Sapling finds another young tree rooted in a fallen log at the water's edge.
Mountain Cabin Sunset is the one print here with a building in it, a small cabin at the edge of the fall color with the peaks going orange behind it.
Fine Art Colorado Prints
Some of these were made on 4x5 film, and the rest on medium format digital or a Nikon D800. Sizes run from 11x14 to 40x50 inches depending on the image, and the widest panoramics go up to 34x60. Prints are available on archival paper, ChromaLuxe metal and Lumachrome acrylic, and every print includes a certificate of authenticity.
Colorado Photography Frequently Asked Questions
Where in Colorado were these photographs made?
Most are from the San Juan Mountains in the southwest part of the state, including Dallas Divide, the Sneffels Range and Owl Creek Overlook. The rest are forest and mountain pond scenes from the Colorado high country.
What time of year were these prints photographed?
All of them in fall. In the San Juans, color peaks around mid-September in the high country, late September into early October at 8,000 to 10,000 feet, and mid-October lower down.
Are Colorado fine art prints suitable for mountain homes?
Yes. Fall aspens and mountain scenes suit mountain homes, ski lodges and resort properties, and the panoramic images work well over a long wall or a fireplace.
What makes Colorado aspen photography special?
Aspens in a grove often change color together, so you get whole hillsides of gold instead of scattered trees. The white trunks hold up in color and in black and white.