Silver Aspen- McClure Pass, Near Marble, CO
"Keep an obedient heart before nature. She is the master above all other masters. Nature is the concrete manifestation of all that remains true and sublime."
~ Charles Philip Brooksaspenmarblecomcclurepassnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Flying Bald Eagle Over Rocky Mountain Wildlife Refuge, CO
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
~ William Jennings BryanBald EagleRocky Mountain Wildlife RefugeCOnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Japanese Maple Tree - Portland Japanese Garden, OR
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
~ Henry David Thoreau, Waldennaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Arrowhead Golf Course - Roxborough State Park, Littleton, CO
“Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep as I look can I see
Only as much as I dream can I be”
~ Karen Ravnnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
American Bison ~ Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Commerce City, CO
What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
~ Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Baby Mountain Goat ~ Mount Evans Wilderness, CO
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
~ Martin Bubernaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Pronghorns - Bennett, CO
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
~AristotlePronghornsBennettCOnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Fierceness ~Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh,India
"Time is the substance from which I am made.
Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;
it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger;
it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
~ Jorge Luis Borgesnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Elk - Trail Ridge Road, RMNP, CO
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you
realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
~Lao Tzunaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Rocky Mountain Sheep Family - Mount Evans Wilderness, CO
"If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place." ~ Terri Irwin
naturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Mount St. Helens Volcano's Crater, ~ Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, WA
"All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart."
~ John Muirnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Grand Teton - Grand Teton National Park, WY
"Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep as I look can I see
Only as much as I dream can I be"
~ Karen Ravnnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Veil of Mystery - White Pocket, Vermillion Cliff National Monument, AZ
"The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?"
~ Edward Abbey
White Egret ~ Sanibel Island, FL
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
~ Leonardo Da Vincinaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Great Blue Heron - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO
“Stillness is the most powerful virtue against all odds in life.”
~ Aditya AjmeraGreat Blue Heroncoloradonaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenver
Golden Eagle Taking Off
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
~ Louisa May Alcottgoldeneaglenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Bald Eagle - Rocky Mountain Wildlife Refuge, CO
"Be fearless in the pursuit of your dreams; do not hesitate to chase after the things that set your soul on fire."
~ Unknownbaldeaglenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Golden Eagle
"Discarded lay all the dreams
In the bin of unwanted things
Till you came and set them free
And, to soar, gave them wings…”
~ Neelam Saxena Chandragoldeneaglenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
American White Pelican
"Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?"
~ Rumipelicanbouldercoloradonaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenver
Bald Eagle Ice Fishing
"I am a free spirit…either admire me from the ground or fly with me…but don't ever try to cage me.”
~ Unknown.baldeaglenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Mount Sopris's Twin Summits -Carbondale, CO
"It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder
………"
~ Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)naturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Mesa Arch Sunrise - Canyonlands National Park, UT
“Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!”
~ Mehmet Murat ildanMesa ArchSunriseCanyonlands National ParkUTnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Reflection of Mount Wilson (14,246') and Wilson Peak (14,017'') - Lizard Head Pass, CO
“I breathe in...
…..
I gaze...
Across the turquoise ocean
Where the waves
Liberate my spirit...
From its shell
…….
breathe in...the silence
Of my own heart
Aching with tenderness...
With memories..
Of home
~ Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempestCO1766naturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Mount Sneffels (14,157') Reflection, San Juan Mountains Range, CO
"In a mirror is where we find a reflection of our appearances, but in our heart is where we find the reflection of our soul."
~ Unknownouraytelluridecoloradonaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenver
Mount Wilson (14,246') and Wilson Peak (14,017'') Lizard Head Pass, CO
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder
……….
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder
~ Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)
Songwriters: Jimmy Page / Robert Plantnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Snowy Lone Tree
"The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible."
~ Frederick Soddytreesnownaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Japanese Maple Tree - Portland Japanese Garden, OR
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."
~Albert Schweitzernaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Frost of Memories .....Yellowstone National Park, WY
“I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think
of the fire
and frost of memories
of the everlastingness
of love
the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.”
~ Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
Wahclella Falls, Columbia River Gorge, OR
“Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.”
~ Victoria Kahler, Capturing the Sunsetnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Aspen Blaze - Castle Creek Road, Aspen, CO
"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."
~ Faith Baldwinaspencoloradonaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenver
Bristlecone Pine
"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."
~ Dalai LamaBristleconePineMt EvansWildernessCOnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Sunflower Field, CO
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
~ Helen KellerCO1524naturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Simplicity
"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellowgrassesnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Dreamy Tea Rose
"I keep my simplicity in my soul
Spread over me like a clear sky
Reflecting all that I am
And all that’s ever passed me by"
~Sanober Khannaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Yucca Flowers
"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Angel's Wing - Antelope Canyon (Lower), AZ
"We are, each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
~ Luciano De CrescenzoAntelope CanyonAZPhotographermohammed hussainmohammedhussainnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Glimmering Hope - Antelope Canyon (Upper), AZ
"A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see.
~Terry Tempest WilliamsAntelope CanyonAZnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
American White Pelican
“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”
~ Dixon Lanier Merrittnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Ferruginous Hawks
“The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle.”
~Janet S. Dickensnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
"A broken song beneath the now,
the echo of a soaring joy,
a shape in the mist,
a touch in the rain,
in the wilderness you come again...
you tell us what we used to know...
you speak for all the free wild things
whose ways were ours
when the wind had wings."
- Bev Doolittlehawkswainsonshawkcoloradowildliferefugenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenver
Soul of the desert.... - White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, AZ
"Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world."
~ Paulo Coelho
Milky Way Over Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
"If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together."
~ Michio Kakunaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Zabriskie Point - Amargosa Range Death Valley National Park, CA
"The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger."
~ Dan B. AllenderdeathvalleymojavedesertDeathValleyNationalParkDEVAcalifornianationalparkZabriskiePointbadlandsnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Oceanside Sunset, OR
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.”
~Christy Ann Martine
Hoarfrost - Yellowstone National Park, WY
"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."
~John Burroughs
