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We had a big snow in Louisville, Colorado and it accumulated on the patio chairs. The sun melted the snow on the back of the chairs and it drooped forward. When I went outside to take some photos, I noticed the chairs and how the snow looked like aliens. I added the glasses in Photoshop to make a humorous image of snow aliens getting a tan in the sun.
When entering Chautauqua Park from Baseline Road in Boulder, there are flowers that bloom in the spring. Here the Flatirons rise up in such a dramatic way. It is a dream photo site for landscape photographers. These rock formations are made of sandstone and have been formed over millions of years. The Flatirons have become a symbol of Boulder and are probably the most photographed portion of the Front Range. Photo Tips - Depth Of Field Often we find great compositions with flowers or interesting plants in the foreground and mountains in the background. The difficulty here is the depth-of-field. There is a tendency to just set the aperture at f/22 or whatever is the smallest aperture available for the lens. It is true that this will give you the greatest depth-of-field; however, it will usually not give you the sharpest image. When doing landscape photography, it is best to find the sweet-spot that has the sharpest aperture for each lens. It is usually somewhere between f/8 and f/11. I recommend that you test each of your lenses to find the sweet-spot and then write them down for future reference - unless, unlike me, you have a really good memory and don't need to take notes. Once you know the sweet-spot, use that aperture and focus one-third to one-half the distance to the background. Take a number of shots with different focal points, then review them to find the sharpest one. Take a few at f/22 as well just so that you can see the difference.
This lake is just southwest of the IBM building at the Diagonal 63rd Street. It is a man-made lake created when dirt was needed to build the dam at the Boulder Reservoir in the 1950s. It has an infamous history of being a place to swim without any bathing suits in the 1970s. It didn't take the city long to pass an ordinance that prohibited that activity. You might say that the best views are no longer of the people, rather now it is of the lake, the trees and the mountains.
