opening a bottle photography

Gallery of stock images for Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

One of my earliest childhood memories was descending into the narrow kiva at Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park. I was merely a toddler, and perhaps it stuck with me because I was freaked out. In the dim light of that subterranean chamber built by the Ancestral Puebloan Indians, I must have sensed something haunted. Shortly after my daughter was born, I was fortunate enough to go back to Mesa Verde and photograph its cliff dwellings, crumbling towers and surreal cities. As one of 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States, it is absolutely worth the long drive from … well, anywhere. It’s truly close to nothing. ©Kevin Day/All rights reserved

Stock images of Ouray, Ridgway, Red Mountain Pass and area, Colorado.

They appear gradually as you approach. First, an amorphous khaki blob hugging the base of the Sangre de Cristos. Then, a tan curtain that has fallen off the rod and rumpled onto the floor. And then, about four miles south of them, they come into focus: massive, improbable, creamy peaks of sand slapped against 14,000-foot peaks. These are the Great Sand Dunes, and photographing their ever-changing forms at sundown is an intoxicating experience. ©Kevin Day/All rights reserved

Ashcroft, Colorado is located in the Castle Creek Valley south of Aspen. It’s a ghost town that has been impeccably preserved, and it happens to be surrounded by one of the most spectacular fall color displays in all of Colorado. On a crisp morning last fall, I headed out of Aspen at the end of a business trip and found myself revitalized by looking through the lens. The display usually occurs in late September, give or take a week or two. ©Kevin Day/All rights reserved