Tough Little Guy Metal Print

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I found this little tree growing out of a crack in a rock near Bent Rock Canyon in northern Colorado’s Red Mountain Open Space. Tough little sucker!

In the first quarter of the 1800s, French-Canadian trappers traveled through Red Mountain Open Space, heading south to Bent’s Old Fort. They traded items such as blue beads with small bands of Arapaho Indians who over-wintered in the sheltered valley along the “bahah haiahah,” or Red Rock Road. Located along the border of Wyoming and Colorado, Red Mountain Open Space is an area of deep crimson and tan rocks, rolling grasslands and sandy washes. People have lived in the area for more than 12,000 years, taking advantage of the abundant natural resources found there.

Red Mountain Open Space, encompassing about 15,000 acres, is located about 25 miles north of Fort Collins and is part of the Laramie Foothills Mountains to Plains Project which protects more than 55,000 total acres of ecologically and culturally divers...

Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...