The Trip:
Denver/ Colorado Springs/ Utah 2012
The Story:
My brother was attending a wedding in Colorado Springs during July of 2012. Since I lived within driving, I picked him up in Denver. We explored the area, driving over to Red Rocks Park to explore before taking the back roads south to stay with some family friends. While my brother attended the wedding I met my good friend René Tate Deniston, who I had not seen in some time, for some great conversation at the Broadmoor. After dropping my brother back off in Denver at the end of the weekend, I explored the East Colfax neighborhood with two of my favorite spots: Twist & Shout Records and the Tattered Cover Book Store. It was an enjoyable time fitting all of these things in, but my time in Colorado was coming to a close.
The next morning, I started my drive back; again electing a scenic route, I took US 6 through Golden, up some wonderful mountain roads up to Loveland Pass. The scenes around Loveland Pass and Dillon were fantastic, but those are stories for another time. I continued my trip back home, heading down the Colorado River through Grand Junction.
By late afternoon was making my way through the desert of Utah, and the combination of scattered clouds and warm light was forming an eye-catching combination. This mountain peak, particularly, shared a symbiotic relationship with the cloud formations. I captured several frames of fleeting light from different perspectives before capturing some sunset shots at a canyon overlook. When I was running through them later, I was drawn to these two. They shared the same properties of having an almost-painted feeling to their skies and terrain features in the far-field. Each had its own unique near-field, though, so I have traditionally paired the complementary images as a diptych.
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