Fielder worries that climate change threatens the landscapes and vistas he has documented over several decades
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2022 Year in Photos: From the Marshall fire to Club Q shooting, here’s what happened this year
The more we see those diverse, rich, challenging and soul-swelling worlds, the better we can understand our state and our neighbors.
Posted inElection 2022
Colorado’s 2022 election, as told through photos
Candidates in tight races bite their nails, journalists dig into their third cup of coffee, and armchair politicos rabidly refresh Twitter as we all try to figure out the same thing: What exactly happened last night?
Posted inOutdoors
PHOTOS: Aspen groves paint a technicolor masterpiece in the Roaring Fork Valley
ASPEN — The first snow of the season dusted the Elk Mountains above Aspen on Saturday, providing an early glimpse of winter as chill sneaked into glowing aspen forests. For the last two weeks, aspen trees in the Roaring Fork Valley have exploded in dazzling hues, ranging from neon yellow to pale red. Some groves […]
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Daniel Wolf, rancher and visionary art collector, dies in Ridgway
In the last few weeks, Daniel Wolf made time to help his eldest daughter with a new project. He helped India shovel through frozen dirt buried beneath the snow, unearthing peony rhizomes and planting them in her newly built greenhouse. It wasn’t unusual for him to take an interest in his daughters’ passions, to spend […]
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“Black in Denver” illustrates through photos — and words — the vast diversity of the Black diaspora
Narkita Gold did not know what it meant to be Black in Denver when she set out to create a portrait-and-interview series called “Black in Denver” in 2018. “I didn’t even know what it meant to be me,” she said on the eve of her exhibit’s Nov. 19 opening at the Arvada Center. “I was […]
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Drone. Lights. Camera. Art. “Space-time sculptures” create one-of-a-kind works of art in Colorado’s mountains
FREMONT PASS — The whirling drone zooms across the reservoir. “Watch for the flip to yellow. There it is,” says Mark Bellncula. “And action. Here we go.” It’s a little after 10 p.m. when Bellncula opens the shutter of his camera — a Nikon D810A specifically made for astrophotography — and the LED-strapped drone starts […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
On Easter morning, there was a historic opportunity. I grabbed my camera and walked the Denver streets.
I sensed a photographic opportunity of historic importance that I shouldn’t pass up. I was guessing, hoping actually in a twisted kind of way, that I would never get to see and experience the streets of Denver so empty and deserted. It was during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was Easter morning, all the churches having […]
Posted inColoradans, Culture, Environment, News, Outdoors
50,000 old photos in Golden are helping scientists answer new questions about climate change
American Alpine Club Library Director Katie Sauter spends a lot of time in the climate-controlled special collections room, flipping through hundred-year-old photographs, black and white images of climbers posing in front of the world’s mountains and glaciers in the early 1900s. While the library is primarily maintained for climbers and historians, there is another interested […]
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Tattoo artist Amanda Wachob marks people — and canvases — for the long haul
Some 150 paying customers showed up for the Museum of Contemporary Art’s conversation with tattoo artist Amanda Wachob and museum director Adam Lerner to accompany the show, “Tattoo This.” It was a cold night so few tattoos were in plain sight. But it was clear from their questions that the crowd of artists, art students […]