Welcome to my first ever blog post! This post is from my first ever photography trip in the summer of 2017. With this trip I went to Mount Evans, which is a fourteener outside of Idaho Springs, Mayflower Gulch (pictured above and below) and Rocky Mountain National Park. My first camera was a Nikon D200. It was a hand me down but it worked for what I needed it for!
My dad and I went to the top of Mount Evans twice, once for sunset and once for sunrise. Both times we were stormed out. We got snowed and rained on, with lightning strikes all around us. So it was safe to say that we did not get any quality photos from either of those trips. However, we did get good stories from it, this is what inspired me to start this blog.
Mayflower Gulch was a hidden gem for us. We arrived in Breckenridge Colorado and went to a photography shop in town to see if the guy knew any places we could go to for sunset. Turns out we walked into the right shop and he had a list of summer photography locations for free. So we took the list and found this Gulch that is closer to Copper Mountain. It is about a mile dirt road that was easy to go on in our Toyota 4Runner. So we drove back and it was such a peaceful place. With abandon cabins and a whole ton of wildflowers it was safe to say that my Dad and I spent 3+ hours there just playing around with the lighting and different angles the gulch provided.
Now the picture of the Elk above and all the photos below are from Rocky Mountain National Park. My Dad and I went to Rocky Mountain National park about mid day and as we drove in the guy above was just chilling next to the road! He graciously let us take pictures and even posed for this picture. The sky was extremely bright and without clouds it made it difficult for me a beginning photographer to keep the sky exposed and also get the river blur I wanted. However, you can use a filter on your camera or you can maybe pull it back in editing if you are lucky. The sunset photo at the bottom was a difficult one because I was wondering at the top of the highest paved road in the United States looking for something fun to take a picture of and I saw these rocks. I ran to the rocks and set up my tripod and took this picture. As I went to look for other angles or opportunities my camera died (rookie mistake). I had no back up battery and by the time I was able to finagle settings on my phone the sun had set and it was cold and dark. Thus ending the trip.
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