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Garden of the Gods 100th Year as a city park

November 23, 2010 By 2 Comments

Col­orado Springs was founded by Gen­eral William Jack­son Palmer in 1871. Charles Elliot Perkins pur­chased the Gar­den of the Gods in 1879.  He opened the Gar­den of the Gods to the pub­lic so all could enjoy.  At his death in 1907 he deeded the land to the City of  Col­orado Springs with the stip­u­la­tion that it be a city park and be free to the pub­lic.  The park offi­cially opened in 1909.  This gallery cel­e­brates the Gar­den of the Gods 100th year as a city park on Octo­ber 17, 2009. four of the black & white pho­tos in this gallery were from a book my grand­fa­ther, Arthur C. Nie­der­miller had.  The book is (Our Own Coun­try A Com­plete Pic­turesque Amer­ica) by James Cox pub­lished about 1894. I hope you enjoy these pho­tos of the Garden.

 

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Books & Maps

Pikes Peak and Gar­den of the Gods : Two Worlds, One Vision [Hardcover]

Col­orado Guide, 5th Edi­tion Updated: The Best-Selling Guide to the Cen­ten­nial State [Bar­gain Price] [Paper­back] This is my favorite Colorado Guide!!

Col­orado Road & Recre­ation Atlas

 

Map of the Gar­den of The Gods in Col­orado Springs, Colorado


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The Hoodoos of Colorado Springs

December 28, 2009 By 2 Comments

Hoodoos are a strange geo­log­i­cal rock for­ma­tion found mainly in Bryce Canyon National Park, Col­orado and the Bad­lands of South Dakota. Their for­ma­tion con­sist of  dif­fer­ent lay­ers of hard and soft sed­i­men­tary rock. Gen­er­ally the hard lay­ers being on top, ero­sion of the softer lay­ers of rock gives them their strange unusual chim­ney or mush­room  shapes. The size of the Hoodoos in the gallery range from a cou­ple feet  to about 50 feet and are located in Wood­man Val­ley Park in Col­orado Springs.  One of for­ma­tions in the area is called the Dutch Wed­ding Rock, which is not access­able due to being on pri­vate land. Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park can be more than 100 feet tall.

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Hoodoos of Colorado Springs

The pho­tos in this slide show were processed in HDR. For more infor­ma­tion on HDR or High Dynamic-Range pho­tog­ra­phy and the pro­gram I use, Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1, click on the links below!  Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1 is a stand­alone pro­gram and also has plu­g­ins for Adobe Pho­to­shop and Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 2.

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SCUBA Diving on Thanksgiving in Cozumel Mexico

December 4, 2009 By 4 Comments

If you live in Col­orado and are a SCUBA diver, then Cozumel is the place for you. No Col­orado cold water div­ing here.  It’s less than 4 hours on a direct flight from Den­ver. Our resort of choice is the Iberostar Cozumel. In my opin­ion the Iberostar Cozumel is the best resort for divers. Most dive sites are between 5 to 10 min­utes by boat. Dres­sel Divers  is the on site dive oper­a­tion. Both the resort and the dive oper­a­tion have a very smooth run­ning oper­a­tion. This is our 7th trip to Cozumel and our 5th at the Iberostar Resort. The Resort has great food and friendly staff. With up to 200 feet vis­i­bil­ity you can­not beat the div­ing in Cozumel to that of any other loca­tion in the Caribbean. This is an all-inclusive resort. All food, drinks and most activ­i­ties are included,  like 14′ Hobby Cat sail boats, sea kayaks, wind surf­ing and much more. The spa and div­ing are extra. Thanks to Mike Sánchez, our dive guide, for the great week of div­ing and thanks to all our other friends at Dres­sel Divers, Cozumel, a PADI 5 star dive oper­a­tion. The under­wa­ter cam­era I use is the 8 MP Sea&Sea DX8000G . This cam­era is easy to oper­ate and does a pretty good job even with­out an exter­nal flash. All the under­wa­ter pho­tos in this gallery were shot with this cam­era and no exter­nal flash.  For all land shots I use the Nikon D80.

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Cozumel Mexico Underwater

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Autumn in Cape Ann Massachusetts

November 19, 2009 By 3 Comments

Cape Ann is located on the coast some 43 miles north­east of  Boston,  Mass­a­chu­setts. It includes the towns of Rock­port and Glouces­ter and is home of  The Sec­ond Annual Lob­sta Fest and Seafood Extrav­a­ganza! The pho­tos in this gallery were also shot in Essex, Mag­no­lia and Man­ches­ter by the Sea. Autumn in Mass­a­chu­setts may be the best in the coun­try. Some of my favorite loca­tions on Cape Ann are Plum Cove, Lanes Cove, Rock­port Har­bor, Glouces­ter Har­bor, Rocky Neck, Atlantic Road, Hal­ibut Point, Buswell Pond, Annisquam, Lob­ster Cove and Hoop Pole Cove. All of these loca­tions afford excel­lent photo oppor­tu­ni­ties. I would love to pho­to­graph Cape Ann in the win­ter but,  the weather is too unpre­dictable. So I will have to leave the win­ter pho­tos for my brother-in-law, Todd Har­ring­ton, of  Plum Cove Pho­tog­ra­phy, who lives in Gloucester.

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Autumn in Cape AnnMany of the pho­tos in this Slideshoe were processed in HDR. For more infor­ma­tion on HDR or High Dynamic-Range pho­tog­ra­phy and the pro­gram I use, Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1, click on the links below!. Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1 is a stand­alone pro­gram and also has Plu­g­ins for Adobe Pho­to­shop and Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 2.

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Map of Cape Ann Mas­sachachusetts. Click on the mark­ers below to view more information.

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The Old Burying Grounds of Massachusetts in Autumn

November 17, 2009 By 3 Comments

Mass­a­chu­setts is rich in his­tory and old ceme­ter­ies. To visit and pho­to­graph the Old Bury­ing Grounds of Mass­a­chu­setts in Autumn is incred­i­ble. The old maple trees are huge and beau­ti­ful, with bright fall col­ors of yel­lows, oranges and reds. The last trip to Mass­a­chu­setts we went out look­ing for dead rel­a­tives for our geneal­ogy project. You see both my wife and  I have ances­tors in the area that date back to the first set­tlers of this great coun­try.  Find­ing grave stones of many of our ances­tors is a thrill and try­ing to imag­ine what life was like back then. I would like to sit down to din­ner with our ances­tors to visit with them to find out what they were like. The pho­tos in this gallery were shot in the town ceme­ter­ies of Ipswich, Har­vard, Shirley, Essex, Gro­ton, New­bury­port and Lex­ing­ton.  It’s a step back in time.  It’s a chance to under­stand what our Found­ing Father’s sac­ri­ficed for us.

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The Old Burying Grounds of Massachusetts in Autumn

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After the October 2009 Cape Ann Nor’easter

November 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Cape Ann is located 43 miles north­east of  Boston,  Mass­a­chu­setts. It includes the  towns of Rock­port and Glouces­ter. Glouces­ter is America’s first sea­port estab­lished in 1623, some 7 years before Boston. A nor’easter is a cir­cu­lar storm were the winds come from the north­east with the worst hav­ing hur­ri­cane force winds. The pho­tos in this gallery were shot after a small nor’easter storm with gale force winds. I can only imag­ine how bad a really big storm would be, like the  storm of Sep­tem­ber 1991, which was made into a movie about the Andrea Gail in The Per­fect Storm. The  sea­port of Glouces­ter has lost more than 5000 fish­er­men in the last 386 years.

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Cape Ann Nor'Easter

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Map of the Cape Ann Massachusetts

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Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show Part 2 of 2

September 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Part 2 of the photo gallery

(Car show update)

The car show will be held this year on Sept 11,12 2010 !!

The Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show on Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 12 brought to Wood­land Park Col­orado by the Teller County Clas­sic, Cus­tom and Spe­cial Inter­est Car Club. The show fea­tured over 200 Clas­sic Cars, Hot Rods and Mus­cle Cars. This was an incred­i­ble car show. In the after­noon they went on the Poker Run to Crip­ple Creek Col­orado. The car show con­tin­ued on Sun­day in Crip­ple Creek Col­orado. Each photo in this Gallery starts off as 3 sep­a­rate pho­tographs at 3 dif­fer­ent expo­sures and com­bined with a process called HDR or High Dynamic-Range pho­tog­ra­phy. This allows one to see the detail in the shad­ows and high­lights. It also has the abil­ity to cre­ate some pretty cool spe­cial effects. Part 2 of the Car Show with more pho­tos com­ing soon!

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Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show Woodland Park Colorado Part 2

Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show Part 2

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For more infor­ma­tion on HDR or High Dynamic-Range pho­tog­ra­phy and the pro­gram I use, Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1, click on the links below!.  Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1 is a stand­alone pro­gram and also has Plu­g­ins for Adobe Pho­to­shop and Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 2.

Books Videos & Software

Mas­ter Photo Work­shops DVD: HDR (High Dynamic Range) Pho­tog­ra­phy Made Easy by Tony Sweet

Photo-Shop-Cafe CD-Rom: HDR &Pho­to­shop CS3 by Colin Smith

Photo-Shop-Cafe DVD-ROM: Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 2 for Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phers by Colin Smith

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Map of Wood­land Park Colorado

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Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show Part 1 of 2

September 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

(Car show update)

The car show will be held this year on Sept 11,12 2010 !!

The pho­tos in this gallery were shot at the Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show on Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 12 brought to Wood­land Park Col­orado by the Teller County Clas­sic, Cus­tom and Spe­cial Inter­est Car Club.  The show fea­tured over 200 Clas­sic Cars, Hot Rods and Mus­cle Cars. This was an incred­i­ble car show. In the after­noon they went on the Poker Run to Crip­ple Creek Col­orado. The car show con­tin­ued on Sun­day in Crip­ple Creek Col­orado.  Each photo in this Gallery starts off as 3 sep­a­rate pho­tographs at 3 dif­fer­ent expo­sures and com­bined with a process called HDR or High Dynamic-Range pho­tog­ra­phy. This allows one to see the detail in the shad­ows and high­lights. It also has the abil­ity to cre­ate some pretty cool spe­cial effects. Part 2 of the Car Show with more pho­tos com­ing soon!

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Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show

Cruise Above the Clouds Car Show Part 1

Now Up Part 2

For more infor­ma­tion on HDR or High Dynamic-Range pho­tog­ra­phy and the pro­gram I use, Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1, click on the links below!. Pho­tomatix Pro 3.1 is a stand­alone pro­gram and also has Plu­g­ins for Adobe Pho­to­shop  and Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 2.

Mas­ter Photo Work­shops DVD: HDR (High Dynamic Range) Pho­tog­ra­phy Made Easy by Tony Sweet

Photo-Shop-Cafe CD-Rom: HDR &Pho­to­shop CS3 by Colin Smith

Photo-Shop-Cafe DVD-ROM: Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 2 for Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phers by Colin Smith

Adobe Lightroom 2

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Map of Wood­land Park Colorado

 

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Critters

September 7, 2009 By 1 Comment

This gallery has pho­tos from Alaska, Col­orado, Florida, Illi­nois, Michi­gan, Cozumel, St. Lucia and Canada. There are Crit­ters such as fox, coy­otes, elk, deer, seals, birds, frogs, bugs, bears, lla­mas, alpacas and much more.

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Critters

All of the slideshows in this web­site were edited and cre­ated with Adobe Light­room 2.

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Independence Pass Colorado

September 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Inde­pen­dence Pass is located between Twin Lakes on the east and Aspen Col­orado on the west, on Col­orado Hwy. 82.  The pass is a steep, wind­ing, paved road with some parts with­out guard rails. One short sec­tion on the Aspen side  nar­rows down to one lane. It rises to a height of about 12095 feet above sea level.  At that point you reach the Con­ti­nen­tal Divide which is above the tree line with spec­tac­u­lar vis­tas of both sides of the divide .  This makes for an incred­i­ble drive espe­cially in the fall with the golden aspen trees. Just remem­ber, this pass is closed in the Win­ter and may close ear­lier in the Fall because of weather.  The sights along this road start­ing from the east side include the town of  Twin Lakes, Inde­pen­dence Pass, the ghost town ruins of Inde­pen­dence, the Grotto and the Devil’s Punch­bowl. This road is one not to miss. The pho­tos in this gallery were shot at the Devil’s Punch­bowl, the Grotto and Twin Lakes.

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Independence Pass Colorado, Twin Lakes, The Grotto and The Devil's Punchbowl

Map of Inde­pen­dence Pass Colorado

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