Canon R5 ??“ Canon 100 ??“ 500 @176mm ISO 1600 ??“ f22 ??“ 1/320 second
If you look about 2/3rds of the way into the frame dead center, you’ll see a bright aspen grove on the right and another grove just to the left and below where the leaves have mostly fallen ??“ that’s the valley we lived in before moving to Tucson. Actually, we lived in a valley within a valley. Summers and fall were unreal, 80* days and 50* nights, great climate. Having said that, when I stopped teaching skiing 400 inches of snow each winter got to be a bit much ??“ and actually where we live now in Tucson, is the desert version of where we lived when we lived in the Vail Valley. I understand it’s changed quite a bit with new housing, apartments, retail outlets, etc., so we’re glad we moved. Nonetheless, I call this, Timeless Colorado
6 comments posted
Raymond Tice
Butch - A lovely scene and and even more wonderful place to have lived. The number of great images you must have of the surrounding area must be huge so thanks for sharing this one. I like the way the grass in the foreground leads up to the horses, to the hills, to the snow capped mts - should be in a calendar or on your wall. One questions - the dark mt to the far left looks like it has a bluish tint and no detail; in the original was this just too dark to pull out detail? Ray Posted: 07/09/2025 23:08:30
Sherry Icardi
What a beautiful area to live and experience the fall weather. It must have been a beautiful place to live...the image is well composed with the multiple layers drawing your eye into the landscape. It is hard to find a more appealing subject to most Americans ....Fall leaves! I miss the color changes living in South Florida, which I'm sure you experience now living in AZ. Posted: 07/15/2025 15:37:35
Butch Mazzuca
When I was in Grade school and living on the West side of Chicago the only mountains I ever saw were in the movies and one day I asked Sister Helen Marie, "Why does the song have Purple Mountains Majesty in it, mountains aren't purple" She said, when you look at them from a distance they are purple. Well, at 10 years old I didn't get it and never gave it much thought. But after moving to Colorado in 1975 we lived in Denver before moving to Vail and sure enough just about every day when I looked at the front range the mountains had a purple tint. This image is VERY close to what I saw save for for fences and a car I removed from the scene. Most/many of my Colorado images have the same bluish/purple tint - good eye! Posted: 07/15/2025 16:13:32
Ian Cambourne
You say your mountains are purple, while down here, just an hour's drive west from Sydney, we have our famous "Blue Mountains", well there you go. A very fine image Butch, of a timeless scene in a rural area. Good composition and depth through use of foreground and background elements, together with good colour rendition. Posted: 07/24/2025 00:58:42
Butch Mazzuca
Thanks for your kind words, I would love to see your Blue Mountains :-) Posted: 07/24/2025 03:38:28
Gary Jones
A great image Butch and the colors are striking. The horses grazing provides a very calm, idyllic setting that draws the viewer into the scene. Many years ago, a judge of one of my photo's saw a fence and told me it can create a barrier between the viewer and the scene. I don't know if you've heard that or tried a photo without the photo. While I followed the advice for a while, I now use a fence when it fits the scene. The fence in this image keeps the image of horses in a pasture rather than on the prairie. There's just so much to like throughout the image, including your old homestead. Posted: 07/28/2025 19:33:55
