2010 was a Very Good Year for Photography - Part 2

 More details on the saga of 2010 as Kathleen and I move through the year and show the results of some of our photo efforts.  Spring is a good time to find good photo ops.  This year we got a lot of bird shots during the spring and early summer.  Denver city park has a great nesting area for snowy egrets, night herons and cormorants.  There must be between 50 and 100 nest at the site.  Kathleen said it did not right to be sitting on a park bench shooting photos of these birds, that we should be up to our waist in water and mud at a minimum. I said OK you are right, but I will take these condition when I can get them.

This snowy egret really posed nicely for us.  Also this spring we had a lot of American white pelicans in our local lakes and were able go get some nice shots.

We had a very good year for birds, shooting several different species of ducks, a lot of Canadian geese, Great blue heron, cormorants, and night heron.  We found a blue heron rookery with about 12 nests and made a few visits to see the young herons develop.  That is quite a sight.  Here is a photo of 3 heron chicks calling mom for food.

The amazing thing is how many different birds could be found in our local lakes and ponds.  Here is a juvenile cormorant sitting in a tree at a local lake.

As you can see we had a great spring and as summer rolled around our photo luck continued.  We found a huge field of sunflowers on the way to Fort Collins and stopped to grab a few shots.  The field of sunflowers was set against a backdrop of the mountains and was an awesome sea of yellow.

The summer months were great.  We visited our son, Bob, in Meeker, CO.  He took us for a ride to a spot near Rangely, CO and showed us some wild horses.  It is real exciting to see these majestic animals in the wild.

During the summer and early fall we took trips to Rocky Mountain National Park where we saw a lot of elk and marmots.  The large bull elk were in velvet and truly a majestic sight.

We took a ride into South Park in early fall to look at aspen and see if the color was good.  The color was fair, but more interesting was this horse in a field just outside of Jefferson, CO.  He just stood in one place and posed for me for several minutes until he got tired of me and trotted off.

This is the end of this session.  The thread will be continued in part 3, Coming Soon.