The Great Sand Dunes located near the Town of Alamosa in southern Colorado are the tallest in North America reaching nearly 750 feet. Year 2017 has become the year of sand dunes for me, as we first visited Mesquite Flat Sand Dune in Death […]
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Colorado Springs’ Garden of the Gods
The Garden of the Gods is owned, operated and maintained by the City of Colorado Springs and is free of charge. This 1,367 acre park is exceptionally beautiful with several dramatically shaped ridges of red sandstone emerging from a landscape filled with tall grass and […]
Trail Ridge Road – RMNP
To ascend Rocky Mountain National Park’s Trail Ridge Road is to leave this world and enter another. It carries you breathless with wonder and altitude, toward a fragile alpine realm, the tundra. Most animals hibernate or migrate during the harsh winters. No tree can live […]
Moraine Park – Rocky Mountain N.P.
Moraine Park is a popular campground inside the Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s a beautiful meadowland with a winding stream running through. We did not see any elk when we arrived there at noon but I can envision in the cool morning at the right […]
Bear Lake – Rocky Mountain National Park
Bear Lake area is a very popular for hiking and sightseeing. The parking lot often filled by early morning. Fortunately, the Park provides free shuttle bus service to various destinations and popular trailheads. There is an half of mile around the lake trail at Bear […]
Rocky Mountain National Park
I have been touring Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado in the past 5 days. This is the first time ever for me to visiting this magnificent park. I have taken many photos but will not sort them out until getting home. While in this […]
Sunflower Field at Sunset
Photographing sunflower field at sunset is quite different from photographing them in the morning when the sunlight is coming from behind the shoulder like the previous posting. It presented major challenge in handling the sunlight. I ended up taking most of the shots using HDR […]
Time for Sunflowers
Located on River Road in Poolesville, Maryland, McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a 2,000-acre tract in a mixture of woodlands, fields, wooded bottomland and managed wetland impoundments. The State of Maryland plants sunflowers in several fields with a total area of approximately 30 acres […]
Sunrise
I always enjoy taking sunrise photos, especially the brilliant sky! The feature photo above was taken at Lake Tahoe – Emerald Bay. Monument Valley: On a Country Road near Frederick: At Ellicott City Hot air balloon launch
Celebrating Fourth of July in Washington, DC
It has always been a festive event for the Fourth of July celebration in Washington, DC. I used to take our two kids when they were still in elementary school (now they have kids at that age) to the National Mall. We would first walk […]
World Heritage Sites in China
We visited China about ten years ago in 2007. We first toured Yunnan Province in southwestern China and afterwards spent 10 days in Beijing to tour all the tourist spots in the area, including Chengde Mountain Resort. Here is the picture of the Great Walls […]
World Heritage Sites in Italy
My first visit of Italy was in 1998 and that was before the digital camera become popular. I still remember taking fifteen rolls of Kodak 36 exposure film and coming back for developing and printing and sadly throwing away half of the prints (what a […]
