Blast from the past! Wolfcreek Colorado and the Spanish Peaks

[major digression]  The other night it snowed in Central Texas!  I guess it's been a while since the last time that happened.  The girls and I built some snowpeople (men, baby, etc...) my oldest made big snowballs (please don't take this the wrong way~) and said they were Dinosaur eggs.  That night I felt motivated to go shoot some photo's up in Georgetown proper (downtown) and I did.  Not really snow photos but still pretty cool none the less. I haven't done a post production on those yet.  I had some old tasks to complete mainly emailing some photos of the kids from my daughters preschool Christmas presentation.  While I was doing that I noticed an older photo that I took on the way home from one of our annual ski (Boarding) trips to Wolf Creek.  On the way home we had caught up to a storm that was hitting the Spanish Peaks just West of
La Veta, Colorado.  This photo was shot with a camera that my dad had loaned me.  It was a Canon Rebel with a 70-300mm lens and probably iso 400 film.  I decided it looked better black and white.  I also framed it up.

Look for the Georgetown photos in the next few days.  Thanks for stopping by and viewing.
This print is for sale on my site: www.aspenroadimages.com

In The Beginning...

So how did I come up with the name Aspen Road Images?  Previously I had an account with shutterpoint.com
and one of those photos had become the highest ranked photos thanks to some viewers.  My wife and I went back and forth with names and finally came up with Aspen Road Images.  Fortunately the domain was also available.  I liked the name because it has somewhat of a lux feeling to it (think Aspen CO.)  The following year I was able to register the name in Colorado.  I was mainly interested in selling fine art prints but that never really happened although lots of people commented on them.  Below is the image that was one of the "highest ranked" on shutterpoints site.  This version is the business card idea that I had.  The picture was taken in the early evening just outside of Cripple Creek, CO.

Going back in time Italy revisited

Here's a three photos that I merged using photoshop that I took while visiting the tomb of the unknown soldier in Rome. Tweaked this somewhat in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (trial)

This last week I've been going through the Italy trip pictures and post processing them (trip dates: 8/23/09 - 9/6/09(ish).  I went through the best of the best when we got home but quickly became frustrated with the lack of PC memory and the time it took to work with the raw files. Since then I have purchased some more memory from Discount Electronics here in the Austin, Tx. area - they are awesome for Dell stuff. Also really enjoyed the free trial of Lightroom 2 from the Adobe site. I know I've said this before but it really is a great application. It even makes quick masking of photos a breeze. Seriously! I'm hoping to make the plunge with this application ASAP. It's like Picasa only a thousand times better.

Before:

slight adjustments in Adobe photoshop CS

Same photo modified using Adobe's Lightroom 2.
Desaturated and masked the clouds a bit