Aspen of Many Colors Canvas Print

This photo was taken at the peak of the Fall Aspen colors at Iowa Hill in Breckenridge, Colorado, Each September, there is a new gold rush to the Colorado mountains. Breckenridge, Colorado was one of the hot spots for Gold mining in the late 1800's in Colorado. Iowa Hill was a particularly hot spot for panning for gold. Today there is a loop around Iowa Hill with interpretive signs telling about the different mining techniques used to extract the precious metal. Long sluice boxes helped separate the gold. Later on they began tearing up the mountain side with Hydraulic mining. Though most of the scars are covered up with vegetation, there is still a lot of areas still visible showing its historic past.

For more organized viewing please CLICK the GALLERIES LINK Above. I am a Colorado Native as were my parents and grandparents. My first camera was a Kodak Brownie. I still have albums filled with memories of my youth taken with my Kodak. In the mid 1970's, I got my first SLR 35mm Camera. I had an Olympus OM-1 and later on an OM-2. At one time I had a color lab in my basement. It was a fun hobby but very expensive and the results were questionable. In about 2000, I got a call from Kodak wanting to know if I liked photography and if I had a computer. I was chosen to be part of a digital camera focus group. This was my first foray into digital photography. Since then I have graduated from point and shoot cameras to DSLR's. My first DSLR...