Terraspectrum

This is a full terrestrial rainbow!  Every colour is present and it's still an hour before sunset.  This is the time of year you can smack a sagebrush and the incredible dust carries forever on the wind.  I wonder if there's a way to print this as a scratch-n-sniff?

Wandering Watershed

Sand Creek trickles through the Boxelder Watershed in Bent Rock Canyon, Red Mountain Open Space, Larimer County, CO.  An old quad identifies this as Sand Creek, but a sign on the property identifies this as Boxelder Creek.  I'm going with Sand Creek because the old quad matches the actual geography and there's is another creek to the south.

Paladin's Grope

Strikes me as something sinister spreading out.  I can feel fingers twitch toward the grasses.  Far, far from home.

Devil's Canyon

A mix of great spirits are whispering truths, their messages lay as the alpine snow.  Slaps from the wind call your attention to what's riding on waves and repeatedly carved into stone.

After Dawn

In the beginning of the year, I made a photograph of this relic gate and horizon line.  In that image I was moved by an internal voice recanting the passage of time that all things face.  Now, several months later, while hiking along the ridge above this object I noticed it's lintel was broken.
          Just an old gate, studpidly
          stuck in the mud,
          you wasted your time
          on the sunrise you loved.
          Neglected and sold
          to wither and fall,
          but stand there you do
          making fools of us all.

Two Buttes

The Pawnee Buttes glow before the coming night.

The obscenity of turbines in the background is sprawl from the Cedar Creek Wind Farm, LLC.  A joint venture between Babcock & Brown (Austrailia) and BP Alternative Energy (GB).  Contrary to local myth,

McF Studios Gallery

If any of you are traveling outside this blog's bounding box you may have found the McF Studios front page, and from there perhaps you dove into the Image Galleries link.  About a month ago that would have landed you on the doorstep of my reseller.  Then, as if planned, a week ago, you may have seen a 404 style error page.  Hmm...  I won't get into the particulars, but that situation didn't make me very happy.  Whose fault it was isn't important, but since this is my business and my name it's ultimately my fault that the link suddenly didn't work.

The New Gallery Page at mcfstudios.com

It works now, but you will no longer be taken to a reseller.  Instead you are presented with a gallery of my photographs.  These are all taken very near my home of Fort Collins, CO.  I think they are some of my best work.  Please take a minute to enjoy.  Web based print sales will return, until then if you'd like to purchase a print, please drop us a line at contact@mcfstudios.com.

Thank you, have a pleasant weekend.

-r.
P.S.  It's a flash based gallery, so it won't work on your iPad.  I'm working to rectify this, but it may take a few weeks.

Pinion's Perch

One little pinion perched on a hill / Comes a storm to break your will / Not my problem, I don't care / I can move from here to there / You're all alone up on your perch / Tell me now what is it worth / We'll face this rain but seperately / Hope you last this calamity.
(it's that mockingbird song, and it sounds much better if you sing it)

Fuzzes

Ok, enough with the pseudo painting.  It's fun and there's probably an application out there for the technique, but sooner or later you gotta get back to work... right?  Work?  That doesn't sound like fun at all.  Maybe just another few minutes in the grass... it's sunny and warm right now, the winter is coming, too, so let's enjoy the little bit of fall we have left. 
I have a few projects that are commanding a lot more of my time than I want them to, but they must be finished, and soon.  So in the coming weeks the blog may get a little lighter, I'm thinking, three times a week.  We'll see how it goes.