Author Archives: Flying Cloud Photographer

2025 Edition I enjoy going every January – it’s cold, there’s a ton of people and parking is difficult- unless you know the secrets: Go on a weekday, early. Park at the Coors Field lot and take the shuttle and wear all the winter western wear that you keep buying. Go to the basement toContinue reading “National Western Stock Show”

But I’ll try to do better in the future. Here are some recent photos from the plains. The “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” is from the National Western Stock Show.

Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver is hosting a wonderful exhibit of alternative thoughts about the cowboy. Just a few shots of the exhibit

There is a short period of time each year where the weather on the plains is calm, subdued. Even in October you can run into some storms – I do think that this is part of the climate change that we all are experiencing ( and some acknowledging).

So when I venture out East of Denver you have to be aware of the weather. Fall and Spring are maybe the exception but not always given the change in weather patterns recently. Here’s a picture on I70 headed west to get back home to Denver – I check the weather radar for situations likeContinue reading “Whether on the Road or at Home Watch the Weather”

Prairie Futures is a public artwork and agriculture landscape installation which aims to cultivate cross-disciplinary approaches to climate compassion thru art practices and social connections in the Colorado High Plains

I’ve thought about doing a companion book to the cemetery book – Gates Ajar dealing with roadside memorials. They are all arounds us but you have to keep your eyes open and be willing to do a U-turn to go back and photograph them.

This last week was filled with lots of unsettled weather. Lots of rain, some hail, tornado warnings with at least one or two touching ground. These are snapshots taken from my Garmin Dash cam. A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal, wedge-shaped arcus cloud. A shelf cloud is attached to the base of the parent cloud, which isContinue reading “Wild Weather in Kansas”

Cope, Colorado is a very small town on Highway 36 in Northeastern Colorado. It is about 30 miles from the Kansas border. For such a small town it has a number of photogenic sites. For my part time job I frequently go thru Cope.