Trip to St. Mary's Glacier

The aspens are changing, the weather is full-on Indian summer, so of course I grabbed my camera and Sawyer went exploring. This is about an hour and some outside of Denver outside of Idaho Springs. I couldn't get super close to the actual glacier that day as I was just wearing tennis shoes and the wind had nearly knocked me over on level ground anyway, so I wasn't all that keen on doing stuff that required good balance.

Aspens by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

aspen red by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

Colorado gold by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

pines by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

Lake and pines by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

Glacier by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

glacier fall by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

facing Mt Evans by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

The stream coming off the glacier...

stream by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

That went tumbling down the mountainside.

sepia waterfall by Stephanie Owen/CrazyDog Photography, on Flickr

great picturs!

I love the lake ones!

I'm going to have to make my way up to CO one of these days to do some hiking. Are these places dog friendly?

Yes they are! Colorado is overwhelmingly a dog friendly state, Denver County (which basically encompasses downtown) not withstanding.

Beautiful

Wow! Beautiful pictures!! What lens do you use for landscape shots?

Those were all taken with my 18-55mm f/3.5 lens. I had a few shots that I thought were interesting that I got with my 50mm f/1.8 but not neat enough to share.