I can't believe another summer is upon us, although my furnace is still coming on at night. It was a bleak spring for photography, with uncooperative weather and $5 a gallon gas putting a damper on my photo adventures. However, we are seeing more and more warm days, the migratory birds are returning, and parks that were closed for the winter are opening for the season. I'm looking forward to good times ahead!
I’m always looking for the grand vista and the majestic beast to photograph, but sometimes that just doesn’t work out. When that happens though, one just needs to adjust the view a little bit to see all kinds of beauty to photograph. I was out hiking a couple days ago, early in the morning hoping for deer or elk in the meadow in the high meadow.
Just thought I'd drop a quick note about my new Youtube video with a few seconds of peace and joy in the mountains with our returning songbirds!
It was an exciting day at the eagles nest! Both adults were on the nest when I arrived at the canyon, so I stopped to snap as many pictures as I could before one of them flew off for their next meal.
The plan was to arrive at the lake for a morning of red-winged blackbird photography. I was awake way early, but decided to start up the coffee pot… and my day. I checked my weather app, wondering what yesterday’s snowstorm had wrought. When I saw it was only 9 degrees outside, the thought crossed my mind to back out! However, there were still a couple of hours of darkness remaining, and I hoped the morning sunshine would warm the air a bit, by the time we arrived.
There have been a rash of fake AI osprey pictures on social media lately. They are quite fantastic and almost impossible to identify as fake. However for a real osprey photographer, there is one telltale difference. All the osprey pictures showing up on the web lately show the great raptor with a perfect fish, perfect face with perfect eyes looking around at the scenery on his unexpected flight through the wilderness.
This post has been a long time coming. Last winter I loaded my old Canon A-1 film camera with a roll of Ilford Delta 400 to see if I like it better than the venerable HP5 emulsion. In addition, I will be testing out my new yellow and orange filters to see what effect they have on this film stock.
Thought I'd put together this quick Easter message YouTube video from the top of Grouse Mountain at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Range of Colorado!
It's difficult to keep up with all the new developments in my world in 2026! In addition to all the excitement in the mountains from returning bird species and new four legged babies being born in the wild, I have managed to complete my historical fiction and romantic adventure trilogy with the publishing of my latest, The War On Wildlife. I have also recently launched a new online sports and leisure magazine, which I will be talking about in this post!
Another awesome visit to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National WIldlife Reserve to test my newest acquisition, the Lumix DMC ZS50 camera with 24-720mm Leica glass! (I also took along my new Pentax IQ Zoom 105 WR film camera, but I haven't had those negatives processed yet, so that's a story for another time.
Colorado Photographer / Author | Steven W. Krull 