Avalanche training camp tommorow!!!

I will be shooting the Colorado Avalanche training camp tommorow at 9:00 am. I dont know If I will be allowed to shoot next to the glass. If I do manage to get next to the glass, expect some great shots of your 07-08 Colorado Avalanche.

Random Waterfall Gellery (HDR)

I figured since I havent posted in awhile, I would add some shots. This is also to take my mind off the fact that I cant chase tommorow while there are tornadoes going down in Nebraska. I will be keeping my eyes on a possible storm chase early next week.


This is on Old Fall River road in Rocky Mountain National Park. RMNP

RMNP

Mt. Evans, below Echo Lake

Somewhere east of Breckenridge

8/14 Kinda crappy lightning

Storm just north of Castle Rock. I was soo happy just shooting away getting all kinds of crazy lightning shots. I checked the lcd screen to see if the shots were in focus and they appeared to be. I got home and cursed the gods when I saw that only 2 out of 85 shots were in focus. Even these shots are kinda soft and have been only slightly cropped so they dont look bad. I need to get that 40D with the 3 inch lcd display.

8/23 Chase pix

We intercepted a supercell near the Pawnee Butte Grasslands on the Wyoming border. The storm was at its strongest as we were approaching from the east. It displayed several wall clouds before it began to die as we closed in. A fantastic sunset spoiled us and I attempted to make use of assorted objects to render the shots slightly more interesting. These are all HDR and assembled using the Photomatix software. The first shot is over done, I know, but the others are pretty close to what I experianced.


Some old farming equipment made for an interesting shot.
Farming equipment and a dying meso.

Wallcloud in the distance.

Sunset at Two Butte Pasture.

7/19 Lightning

Just got back from shooting some local lightning. Got a few good shots. No decent chasing for awhile, will update as needed.

I went to the Avalanche rookie camp today to check out some of our up and coming hockey players. It was my first time shooting hockey and I quickly realized the need to use ISO 800 to freeze the action. The pix came out a tad grainy but not too bad. Tommorow and the next day look good for supercells south and east of Denver. This is a pretty nice setup for July and I look forward to chasing it. Here are the hockey pix and will update for the chase tommorow. By the way, #26 is Paul Stastny.