Colorado: Frisco Marina

Yes, this place your standing and taking this photo is where I want the front porch to be...I'll take!!! Can I send the down payment now?

:-) V.Bice

Verna: I could get you in about 500 feet below this view. Then you wouldn't see so much of the bare banks of the lake. This view is from public land so if you can get your senator to work on it for you...

 

The lake at present is about twice as far from the high-water mark as it was when this image was made. Much more dirt showing and no snow on the peaks. These are Peaks One, Two and Victoria in the Ten-Mile Range. Our place is just behind the right-hand tree on the far side of the lake.

I can't imagine living without the digital camera now. It makes my

simple life even simpler. This is just a pleasant little diversion

image for making pleasant thoughts. Sort of like a lemon drop for the

eyes.

Fred, I think all you need to do is find a couple of trees, put yourself in the middle of them, and shoot. I am telling my wife that we need to run out to Colorado for a weekend and get some of these shots. I like how you bring attention to the middle of the photo. Thank you for another great shot!!!

Wayne: There are so many trees that I don't even see them anymore. I hadn't even noticed the trees until you mentioned it.

 

They don't seem to intrude too much so I probably won't clone them out.

 

Actually, I did see the trees. I just haven't figured out how to make something like all the wonderful frames and mattes that everyone else does for their images so I have to shoot everything between two or more trees. I am working on the frames in Photoshop so I may be able to show something without trees soon. Actually I tried framing everything with large rocks but I couldn't get my wife to hold them while I composed and did multiple exposures. After she threw one at me, I ceased attempting that particular artifice.

 

There are also a lot of things we have to hide up here as we don't want to give the impression of too much development. I can clone out the smokestacks as they are relatively simple but the powerlines, warehouses and feedlots everywhere are such a pain.

 

If you want to come out, call and we'll arrange a couple of trees for you to shoot between. We have lots to choose from even though most of them burned down this summer.

Well Fed then you need to sell me your place!

I guess it's global warming??? Do you think

the end is near??? ;^)))) GREAT photo....hope

the weather changes back soon, I would hate

to see such beauty lost.

Well, since I am Mr. Anti-Using-Half-Trees-as-Frame, I think you know what I am going to say.

 

But seriously, the light is great. I'd never thought that backlighting can be so effective in a situation like this. The colours are wonderful and the sharpness is good. The snow is nice. It'd be nicer if there is more to cover the shadowed area of the mountain to give it some detail. I like the boats in the lake and the way they are arranged. The composition is good. Well, except for the trees, of course.

Jim: My wife DID consent to hold those two branches. I thought the sky was just a bit too stark. Sorry, It's okay for future images because she says she won't help me anymore.

 

Also, there aren't any sailboats out at dawn or I would try it sometime. It will have to be next spring, though, because there's no snow left and all the trees are brown and the sky is gray.

Fred, it is your famous framing with trees again . I am not a big fan of using complicated shape like trees to form a frame. But it seems like it is your liking and style. So be it. I always like strong side and back lighting for landscpae shots. You did very well here and capture the mood nicely. The only sugggestion/nitpick is the cloud looks a tiny bit over-exposed with my monitor. May be the exposure latitude is beyond the D60 CMOS can handle. May be it is time to do double exposure and use the 'electronic' graduate filter in PS in order to retain details in both extremes.

Oh boy! Look at what I'm faced with. The rockless ones, and the treeless ones versus the clueless one (that's me). Let's talk this out, shall we? This divisiveness has to end.

 

It's just a pleasant little landscape, remember! I've got nothing to work with here except rocks, trees and sky! If I had the Pacific Ocean or sand dunes or tomatoes or something worthwhile I might make a decent image!

Jim: This website you sent me to... is this related to the stump lizards in any way? I somehow feel a connection there.

YES FRED, I agree with John...about moving the mountain....after all you are Fred "LORD" ;-))

NO excuse's please....

I admit I am often mistaken for someone of that family. However, I am no more related to that family than any of you are. The family name in their case isn't really Lord. That was just an honorary title.

 

Besides, if it was that easy, I wouldn't be making silly little images. I'd be making the real thing.

 

Damnit, Jim. Keep that Borelian stump lizard away from me! It already ate my phaser!

Well, from one Frisco denizen to another, I have to say I love your scene. Looking closely, I think I see detail in that black blob of a mountain. I know you don't care for bringing your work home, but just a little "dodging" of that dark area might bring it out.

Michael: Only thing there is Masontown (abandoned), a lot of hiking trails and a perennial snowslide zone. I'll try it in winter so the snowslide zone will show more clearly. All the important detail is there. Even in full sun, it's not too exciting in the way of details.

 

Frisco, Colorado is actually named after San Francisco and was established in 1880 so the slang term was in existence even then. I was in the tasting room at Arrowood, Sonoma County once. The server was from NYC. I told him we had a place in Frisco. He said, "I thought the San Franciscans didn't like that name." I told him we didn't mind as that was its name. It was in Colorado. "Oh!" he said.

Very nice warm feel. I particularly like the foliage framing, but would lose the trunk of the right tree just to keep the branches.

Fred, it is so nice to know you live in Frisco, one of many beautiful places in Colorado. I have bypass this place for at least 30 times. However I didn't take many photos around this area.

 

"This spring should be somewhat different as the reservoir is only down about ten feet right now." you mean the reservoir get more water or less water this winter? I'd like to see more water. Last Sep I want to many places in Colorado, the lakes were pretty dry comparing that of two years ago.

 

Your birds series are the best in your folder. They impress me long time ago....

This photo shows how low the lake was in June, 2002. Now the lake is nearly full again and we hope it remains so. The snowfall so far this winter is not too bad though far from enough.

 

Thank you for your kind comments. I do enjoy photographing birds very much.