White Sands, New Mexico seems to call me out every October, thus another road trip. This year I finally got to camp-out in the dunes. Despite wind, blowing sand, a little rain and a couple of lightning bolts, the experience was phenomenal and worth the trouble. This was also the first time to do some serious star photography and I think the results are stellar (sorry, sometimes I just can’t help myself). My old Canon 5D was not up to the task so I rented a new 5D Mark II that has much better high ISO performance and along with a f2.8 24-70mm lens was able to finally get some results I am happy with. Please check out all of the images in the”Special Places”Whites Sands 2011 Gallery. Enjoy!
The other night I saw a blurb on the local news about a mountain lion sighting in the middle of an upscale neighborhood in Golden, over near the foothills. It started me thinking about the City “Open Space” just down the street from where I live and how much wildlife I see there on a regular basis. This open space is like many in suburban Denver, former ranch land that has been swallowed up by development, saved just in the nick of time by our City fathers. It is not very big, probably 100 acres in all and it is surrounded by residential neighborhoods, a golf course, a busy four lane street and a Mexican restaurant. It is primarily open fields with a 2 acre farm pond, some wooded brushy areas and a few remaining cottonwoods, most dead from lack of water since the old ranch irrigation ditches are long gone. I run my two dogs there almost daily and sometimes take my camera along. (I need to take it more often)
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