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This is a view of a large cirque near the highest part, 12,183 feet, of Trail Ridge Road in northern Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Park. These small snowfields represent all that is left of the glacier that carved the bowl of this cirque during the last ice age about 10,000 years ago…

Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed.

Image copyright 2024 Jon Burch Photography

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...