• Audre Lorde.

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County road 8 near Ridgway, CO twists and turns its way through a ridge that provides superlative views on both sides of the stunning. There is a small inlet from the main road that leads to an elevated ledge from which spectacular views can be observed anywhere you look. One of the vistas you can view from this point is the valley between the mountains, basically looking over the township of Ridgway.

This sky came about after sunset when we almost packed up and was about to leave. There was very little light in the foreground and I was using a 2 stop ND grad, the image still came out a little underexposed in the foreground. But the colors in the sky was just spectacular.

• Claude Monet.

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Courthouse and Chimney rock are two of the most prominent rock formations that you can observe from the stunning CO-08 near Ridgway, CO. We timed to get to this location just before sunset and had enough time to find the trail to get to the photo spot from which all the landmark rock formations and the valley which contain the town of Ridgway is visible.

Adding to the stunning rock formations where the carpet of brilliant yellow provided by huge groves of aspens everywhere. This was one of the most memorable places from our trip and I can’t wait to get back.

• Douglas MacArthur.

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In this modern age of cellphones and advanced GPS handhelds that can fit into the form factor of a watch, it's extremely rare to go genuinely explore. Our real chance to explore happened during a trip to Colorado, some years ago. After extensive research, we identified a small town called Ridgway as our home base for exploring the San Juan Mountains. We planned to explore the various county roads that lead into the mountains. One of the roads that we marked for exploration was the County Road 8, while it didn’t go into the San Juan Mountains, this road has some amazing view of Cimarron Ridge South, Turret Ridge, Courthouse Mountain & Chimney Rock.

While following the google map direction, we soon realized that the map was plain wrong, the road identified by the map turned out to be a long driveway. A check on the field guides didn’t help much, but when I switched to the satellite view on the map, I saw something that looked like a road. So reversed all the way and started trying out the other options at the intersections. After a couple of false starts finally, we got on the actual county Road 8 and managed to get to the point where we were going. The subject of this image is the stunning Cimarron Ridge South; we spend a fantastic evening photographing it in the best possible light, the fall foliage didn’t hurt either.

• John Donne

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Here is another shot of the magnificent courthouse mountains and the chimney rock along with Turret ridge perfectly bathed in autumnal sunset light. We had to go through some pretty rough roads and some serious bushwhacking to get to this vantage point and boy was it worth it to get this view.

The town of Ridgway was the surprise of this trip, we met a lot of wonderful people, had amazing food and got to see some amazing scenery all around the little town nestled in the San Juan Mountains. We didn’t had enough time to explore some of the stunning hikes around the area and would love to comeback and explore some of the stunning vantage points I'd marked up while we were there.

• Francis Bacon.

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Another shot from county road 8near Ridgway, Colorado. This was one of the most spectacular vistas I have ever seen with almost a 270 degree views of mountain and ridges and valleys. Plus we were there just past the fall peak on chilly autumn sunset lighting up Chimney rock formation.

This is a panorama stitch made of about 8 images just before sunset with Colorado’s spectacular yellow fall foliage in the foreground.