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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

~Rabindranath Tagore

TGIF! And a very happy upcoming Mother's Day to all of the moms!

Image Notes: a bit of a hybrid image betwen a normal HDR (sky) and single exposure (foreground). If you get a chance please view large on black, click "L" to see.

Spring is definitely getting underway here on the Front Range of Colorado!

Image Notes; manually blended two frames via luminosity masks.

I regularly hear that besides the Maroon Belles, Colorado simply doesn't have impressive mountains like those found at Glacier and the Tetons. To which I always think, bull pucky! We just have so dang many mountains that they all end up competing with each other for prominence, but take any one in isolation in a state lacking as many tall mountains and instant impressive alpine beauty.

Thankfully, subject isolation is something we can do with photography. ;-)))

I used to telephoto lens on this one to help compress the vertical to show off the Laramie Foothills north of Fort Collins, CO. This was shot at 240mm on a D300 for a 360mm equivalent.

I think this Cedar Waxwing was the berry-toss grand champion this year! ;-)))

Have a great weekend ahead all!

Sorry, I couldn't resist the play on words, heh. ;-)))

We had a huge flock of migrating Mountain Bluebirds visit our neighbor's mountain ash tree during our recent big spring snowstorm. We regularly see robins and waxwings use this tree as a winter food source but this is the first migrating flock of bluebirds to visit and I wonder if it was due to the heavy snow catching them at the right time. After getting 22" last week, more is forecast for today!

Edit: I replaced the originally uploaded version with a slightly less sharpened one as the flickr re-sizing algorithm seemed to make it appear over-sharpened. Hopefully this version is better!