• Gustave Flaubert.

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This was one of our first photo opportunity on our trip to Colorado, it’s also my favorite. We had initially thought that we will miss sunset on the second day as we will only reach Telluride around dinner time and by then the Sun would have gone behind the horizon. But just as sunset colors were lighting up the sky we rounded a corner and came across this view of the beautiful Trout Lake and these massive mountains standing guard.

This shot is pure luck as I was not aware of anything like this existing before I actually saw this scene happening right in front of me. The mountains have some red tinged rocks and when the warm sunlight fell on them it was like pure magic. I am glad Colorado decided to welcome us with such a spectacular sight on our first day.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Finally after almost an year my wife and I took a well deserved break and as usual it was a fall road trip across one of the most spectacular states of the US of A, Colorado. W drove straight from LA to flagstaff and then on our first day visited the four corners national monument and drove to Ridgway after a brief stop at Telluride. As we were driving to Telluride we came through this mountain pass and saw an alpine lake surrounded by some spectacular mountain peaks. The sunset light was perfect and so we decided to stop for sunset rather than drive to the location we had originally planned.

Turns out the decision to stop was a good one as the setting sun lit up the mountains spectacularly. Since the scene was really wide I decided to shoot a Panorama of two horizontal shots at about 35mm. I balanced the light using a 2-stop ND grad and a polarizing filter. Hope you like it.