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The convenience of shooting in the Big Cimarron Valley is that most of the scenes are right next to the road for easy capture like this one....not all though. Some require some back country hiking which will take one to some unbelievable sites. Some times I put the camera down and just take it all in while the memory takes over in my mind and heart. Falling in love with such beauty is a natural experience.

When I was growing up in San Diego in the late 50's and early 60's our family enjoyed many camping trips to the Eastern High Sierra Mountains to a site in the foothills just west of Lone Pine, California, which is now called the Mt. Whitney Portal. It was there that my appreciation for the beauty of mountains and an emotional bond with the surrounding landscape began. After moving to Los Angles for a couple of years in the late 60's we relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico where I graduated from high school. After some time working in the construction industry, living in Oregon and a couple of years in college I moved to Denver in 1976 to enroll in the music program at Metro State College. To support myself through school I worked part...