Nothing new to see on this morning’s hike… the peak looked the same as always and I didn’t get a chance to photograph the deer herd before they headed up the mountainside on terrain too difficult for my two legs! So I just finished my hike and made my usual rounds to the gym, the Donut Mill for coffee and the library to get on the computer and see if a house I can buy may have come up for sale. No luck there as per usual. Then I wracked my brain for a while trying to think of a new place to go photograph within a reasonable distance… Felt kind of like Curly for a little bit, “I’m trying to think but nothing is happening!”. No luck there either.
Eventually I decided to just come home and work on uploading some new images from photo shoots done earlier this year. Looking back I decided that my trip to Victor in March is a good place to start. Have a bunch of nice images from that day that I need to get processed and keyworded. It is with a bit of sadness that I work on these though, twice this year I came close to getting a house there only to have the loans fall through for various reasons beyond my control. Still hoping, though I know now it’s a long shot.
Anyway, I managed to get three more of the Independence Gold Mine processed and they are now available on my website on Pixels.com as print and RF stock. The history of this area is rich with imagery and stories of the old west. I can only imagine the harshness of life in these mines on the rugged mountains surrounding Cripple Creek and Victor at elevations well above 9,000 feet. It’s a rough go even now just to photograph them, and in pleasant weather to boot! I hope you visit my site and enjoy these images and more.
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