Famous Among the Black and White Barns…

Ohio Creek Rd., Gunnison CO

Famous Among the Barns…

Ohio Creek Rd, Gunnison CO

Castleton Ranch: Ohio Creek Road, Gunnison

I took this shot three years ago and whiffed. This is a little better.

Blue Water, Big Sky

Mesa Azul

Matinee

Aflame

YD-2325

Reporting for Duty

Fairview Schoolyard, September 2012 (Ohio Creek, Gunnison, CO)

“A herd of pronghorn loiters near Gunnison.”

Teepee: Cooper’s Ranch, Gunnison River

Autumn on Blue Mesa – Gunnison, Colorado

Thanks to tour guide extraordinaire Frank Venturo.

Castleton Ranch

Ohio Creek – color vs. black and white

I’ve been looking hard at the shots I got from my Gunnison outing last month. In doing so I find I’m learning a lot about not only the technical differences in black and white vs. color, but also the differences in the stories the two approaches tell. All part of trying to learn not only about photography, but who I am as a novice shooter, as well. So, that said, here are two takes on a landscape I shot. They’re very different pictures to be the same picture, aren’t they?

Color first: