Colorado Landscape Photography
Colorado has been an enduring subject of my photography, from broad mountain vistas and changing skies to intimate scenes of water, rock, forest and wildflowers. I am particularly drawn to the way light, weather and season continually transform the landscape.
My landscape photography in Colorado is centered in the San Juan mountains of Southern Colorado, with much of my work coming from the area surrounding Pagosa Springs. These landscapes offer an extraordinary variety of subjects—from expansive mountain views to quiet streams, autumn aspen groves or winter scenes shaped by snow and changing light.
I look for the moments when the landscape reveals something unexpected: a particular quality of light, a striking combination of color and form, or a quiet relationship between the elements of the natural world.
The San Juan Mountains and Pagosa Springs
The mountains surrounding Pagosa Springs provide an especially rich setting for landscape photography. The San Juan Mountains combine rugged peaks, high mountain forests, streams, changing weather and dramatic seasonal transitions within a relatively compact region.
For me, photographing this landscape is an ongoing process rather than a search for a single iconic view. Returning to familiar places reveals how different they can become with the changing seasons, weather and light. A mountain slope photographed in autumn can become an entirely different subject after a winter storm or beneath the changing light of early morning.
Many of these photographs are the result of repeated exploration of the Southern Colorado landscape and a continuing search for those brief conditions in which light, weather and landscape come together.
Nipple Mountain and Blackhead Peak
Pagosa Peak from Four Mile Road
Pagosa Peak in winter
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Gunnison National Forest, Colorado
Columbine and Lupine, near Snodgrass Mountain, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado
Raincloud drama over the continental divide, Eastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado
Pagosa Peak, San Juan National Forest, Colorado
Moose, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Colorado
Twin Sisters Peaks, Western San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Pair of House Wrens near Pagosa Springs, San Juan National Forest, Colorado
Dallas Peak, Mount Sneffels Wilderness, Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado - May 2018
Mount Emma and Greenback Mountain, Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
Colorful clouds over Squaretop Mountain, near Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado,
Mount Emma and Greenback Mountain, Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
Another bend in the road, Plumtaw Road, San Juan National Forest, Colorado
Uncompahgre National Forest, near Million Dollar Highway, Colorado
San Juan National Forest, Colorado
Saddle Mountain, San Juan National Forest, Colorado
Found in the Western San Juan Mountains, Colorado,
Mill Creek, near Million Dollar Highway in western San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Colorado Landscape Fine-Art Prints
Selected Colorado landscape photographs are available as fine-art prints for collectors and for those who would like to bring the character of the Rocky Mountains into their homes or offices.
Prints are produced in a range of sizes and presentation options. Visit the Print Shop to explore available photographs, sizes and materials.