2011 cutting room floor

The photos that didn’t make it to the main 2011 page, but worth sharing for the curious and the bored.

sandhill crane take off during spring migration (Monte Vista, Colorado)

hillside daisies in April (Carrizo Plain National Monument, California)

Pahoa-Pohoiki Road (Big Island of Hawai’i)

celebrating the closing of my parents’ new Boulder condo

sunset at home

the town of Mount Crested Butte

delphinium, golden eye, and mule’s ear (Crested Butte, Colorado)

august thunderhead approaching while Kaweah happily sleeps on

hiking ahead of sunrise in the last days of summer (Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)

aspen gold (Gothic, Colorado)

reflected rainbow (Crested Butte, Colorado)

fall colors on the flanks of Mount Elbert (Mount Elbert, Colorado)

rows of aspen (Crested Butte, Colorado)

autumn foothills and snowy peaks (Sneffels Range, Colorado)

scrub oak and young aspen (Ridgway, Colorado)

first light on Mount Sneffels (Colorado)

wavecloud at dusk (Nederland, Colorado)

moody textures at sunset (Nederland, Colorado)

skiing the sugar-dusted pine forests (Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)

5 comments at “2011 cutting room floor”

  1. beth says:

    Wow. Beautiful, awesome, amazing, and inspirational, as always. Wow.

  2. Fiona says:

    wow, i love the wave cloud at dusk photo.

  3. Joan says:

    Exhilarating photos! Your cut photos are terrific too, and it’s so nice to get a sense of what you are up to. Miss you guys. Happy holidays and happy hiking for the new year. Love, Joan et al.

  4. Margie says:

    The doggie wins my heart, and my vote, every single time!

  5. Mrs Ergül says:

    I call this the Sequel to the Best Photos of 2011!