Union Station - Denver

Santa Fe Street Art

Box car graffiti...















Detail of the mural on the former New Mexico State Records Center and Archives building, facing Guadalupe Street...

Santa Fe

These were taken in the Rainbow Man Courtyard on Palace Avenue in Santa Fe.

Tree on Mount Lindo

Today I drove up to Mt. Lindo, which is a cremation garden and cemetery near Morrison overlooking Turkey Creek Canyon. The east side of the mountain has the famous lighted cross that can be seen from Denver. It was a gray day with occasional rain. This tree seemed to reflect the changing mood of the seasons.



















For a photograph of the famous cross see Mount Lindo Cross at the Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols website.

The Flower Lady

Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado

Visiting Fairmount

I recently started working on a cemetery project (see link in the sidebar at right) so I visited Fairmount Cemetery yesterday in the almost rain.

The Other Side of South Park

These were taken yesterday overlooking a South Park valley. The cartoon South Park looks a little different—it's just over the hill.

Rocky Mountain Summer Rainstorm

I drove up to South Park on Monday and took these two pictures from the back porch of a friend's cabin just as a storm was approaching across the valley.

Motheater

Motheater live in world underneath Denver's normal music scene. They don't play in the known clubs or get written about in Westword. They don't know what a record label is for. Their shows almost seem like spontaneous happenings, spread by word of mouth and obscure Internet postings. I saw them last night at a tiny dark warehouse space on Brighton Boulevard, just beyond the railroad tracks and all those new overpriced lofts. Their music is a dark mass that moves with slow intensity. Look carefully beneath Denver's nightlife and you just might get to see them sometime.

Kinda Cool Accidental Blurry Mess

Here's a picture I took at the Denver zoo for a friend who likes tigers. It looks like he's bounding off into the forest, but he's really just pacing around in his cage. This blurry picture came out accidentally kinda cool...

Industrial Angles - Gates Rubber Company

This post was updated on February 11, 2008.

October 5, 2007: They have begun tearing down the old Gates Rubber Factory buildings. The top photo shows the large north building, still there. The middle one shows the south building on its way down. The third photo shows a workman dismantling the bridge that joins the south and north buildings over Mississippi Avenue. Beneath that you can see some photographs I took in 2006.








June 3, 2006: Today I went out to the old Gates Rubber Company buildings between Broadway and Santa Fe. They're going to be torn down soon so I thought I'd take some pictures before they turn this splendid eyesore into more urban sprawl.

Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

On the trip back home I decided to take Highway 84 north and a little west to Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch. You can see why Georgia O'Keeffe loved the place so much - it's isolated and filled with all sorts of unusual colors.

New Mexico Churches and Pueblos

Today I visited two Pueblos and the Chimayo Church. Here is the belltower of the Catholic church in Santa Clara Pueblo...



















A bulto (carved saint) of San Raphael in El Santuario de Chimayo...



















The window at the back of El Santuario de Chimayo looking outside...















Nambe Falls, Nambe Pueblo...

San Francisco de Asis Church near Taos, New Mexico

I drove down to New Mexico yesterday and took these pictures outside the San Francisco de Asis Church in Ranchos de Taos. The first four were taken last night and the fifth one was taken this morning on my way out of town.

Lions at the Denver Zoo

Today I visited Denver's zoo and took a few pictures of the Lions. The first two were taken inside the lion house looking out through the window. If you look close you can see a bit of glare from the window, which is why the photographs have a slightly soft look.















Having a drink.















Outside the window.

Olinger Angels

This afternoon I went to Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery in Wheat Ridge and took these photographs.

More Fairmount Angels

I wanted to see how close in I could get so I tried this close-up shot. The camera has an equivalent 28mm-102mm lens so you can get pretty decent close-ups. The camera has a macro, but I didn't use it to get this shot. Here's one where I was trying to get a gray against gray look...

Under April Skies

This is the first photograph I took at Fairmount and one of the first I took with the new camera. It drizzled on the way over to the cemetery, but the rain stopped by the time I got there. The sky was just the right gray for the kind of light I like when taking pictures in cemeteries. Here are two more pictures...