Hiking is perilous

Hiking is perilous
Originally uploaded by gamp

Went hiking yesterday at the top of Mt Evans. Hiking might be a stretch because I drove up the mountain, but there is that last 100 feet of elevation or so, which I promptly jumped off of. Got some silly pictures. My brother Donald came with me, which is good, because he rarely gets out of the house.

Boulder Second Fridays

I'm heading to Boulder Seconds Fridays - a showing of Boulder artists and work studios, but don't seem to see anything on the web about it, so I'll just paste some info about it here.

from Colorado-BM listserv:
Our regularly scheduled Second Fridays event will be happening this Friday, the 10th, in Boulder at the Phoenix Asylum (2510 47th St., Unit D/DD--Same building as Alpine Sports and around to the right) BurnWorks. (you know where it is--right next to The Asylum).

7-10pm

Monthly Art Showing in the spirit of First Fridays.

Come check out art from the Phoenix Asylum Inmates, BurnWorks crew and other local artists! Connect with community and friends. Bring your checkbook in case you LOVE something and just must have it.

This is a FREE event (donations to BurnWorks and Phoenix Asylum are always appreciated.) Donation beer/wine bar for those over 21.

If you are an artist and wish to DISPLAY or PERFORM art, please contact the following. Regular hours for artist set-up are April 9 from 6-10 at the Asylum:

Wheels of decay

Wheels of decay
Originally uploaded by gamp

I haven't made up my mind about the use of photoshop and other techniques to alter photos. Usually I just like the original photography. But, I've been messing around with HDR a bit and now I've gone and let one of my photos be processed with a texture layer. Oh my goodness. Am I officially a flickr whore? Probably.

what do you think? Is it much better this way?

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Tractor

Tractor
Originally uploaded by gamp

I've been messing around with HDR photography. I don't like things to be too surreal, but some of it is cool.

Erik and I went exploring in the plains of Northern Colorado and came across a retired man name Leo that had 45 tractors in his yard. This is one of them.

We also explored the nearby town of Dearfield, which used to be an African American "colony". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearfield,_Colorado


Incidentally we made an interesting discovery that a number of county roads are now private roads and you can be charged with trespassing for driving on them. This is disturbing to me. In this area the roads are apparently owned my Anschutz.