West Horseshoe Park and Fall River Wood Print

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A 500-foot thick glacier once covered Horseshoe Park in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. As the valley glacier inched along over hundreds of years, it scoured out the distinctive U-shaped valley that you are looking at. Like giant slow-motion conveyor belts, the glacial ice eventually carried it rock debris down the valley. At the farthest point of the glacier's advance it deposited a load of rock fragments, called a terminal moraine. About 15,000 years ago, the glacier began to recede.

As it dissipated, the glacier dropped rubble along its flanks, forming lateral moraines, and the melt water also left behind sediments that became these meadows in Horseshoe Park. Huge ice chunks split from the glacier and were buried in gravel as the glacier melted. These massive blocks created depressions which became the kettle ponds known as Sheep Lakes.

Fall River is a tributary of the Big Thompson River in Rocky Mountain National Park. The river's source is near the Alpine Vi...

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...