Release the shutter

This evening I headed out to the Prospect Valley, Colorado area. I had worked in this area in the past and hadn’t been back in a long while. The eastern side of Colorado is still mostly either large farms or ranches and I find myself being drawn to the more rural style of photography. Cities definitely are fun to shoot but I feel more comfortable in the more agricultural areas.

This was one of my favorite spots of the night. I started with a 75mm fast prime and it didn’t catch what I was trying to capture so I switched to a 50mm prime. It still was too tight so I put on the 35mm voigtlander f1.2. I really love this lens. It’s so clean. Nighttime shooting is such a challenge when trying to find places that have sources of light but it is almost like a treasure hunt. I sometimes have to deal with the grainy nature of photos but thats okay I think.

This was a really cool old building in the main street of Keenesburg, CO. I believe there is either an old dairy parlor or a sale barn attached that I tried to get a shot of but it was just too dark. I will try to come back during the daytime to get some more shots of this area.

This cool old antique store was in a building that I imagine was from the turn of the 19th and 20th century. It was one of my most liked photos on Lightroom community. I even had a request to go in and get some shots during the daytime. I’ll bet they are really nice folks that run it. A bonus would be some vintage lenses or cameras possibly.

One can only imagine the times that were had in this establishment. The whole town reeked of small town America that didn’t want to change. There are newer parts of town of course but the main street seemed to be a snapshot out of the past 40 years. Maybe I’ll come back to this spot and get the dogs on the bench for some photos. I need to get photos more often of the doggos. They ride along with me but the streets are sometimes busy so I can’t get them out as often as I would like. It’s also brutally hot here so I keep them in the air conditioned suv.

I didn’t add this one anywhere but I liked the building a lot. The contrast in the grout in between the bricks was really cool. Imagine if this was once the town jail at some point. It was directly across from the Coors sign bar so that would be a short walk for the heathens.

I didn’t add this one anywhere either but I have driven by this place at least a thousand times during the day throughout the years for work. The light seems to shine on top of the original church buildings steeple.

This car wash reminded me of back home with every small town seeming to have one of these one bay washes for the whole area. I probably took 20 photos of this spot from different angles and in post processing tried out a lot of different stuff to make the blue pop. The lenses I use are german and do a fine job but they sometimes don’t have the glow of the really high dollar ones. I’ll try some more stuff out tomorrow up north of here towards the Greeley area.

Until next time.

Release the Shutter.

Kyle