Como is an old railroad town settled in the valley at South Park. The past two Fridays Jason Small, Drew Jaynes and I have been making the trek up there to make images of the sunrises and the surrounding area. Getting up to Como for sunrise means leaving Denver at o' dark thirty which in my world is around 4 am. Man, has it been cold up there. Last Friday we sat up on the ridge to the north of Como and it wasn't too too cold out, but yesterday it was freezing with a knife-like breeze. True to form, we retreated down to the road just past the cemetery and waited.
A lot of factors go into shooting sunrises. What a great classroom, standing in the cold wind with poor light, good friends and good equipment. My images weren't spectacular, but I opened up to using different apertures and seeing results right then and there. The biggest lesson was what you can do at f22. The second biggest was that my eyes don't work well that early in the morning. The third was don't give breakfast burritos with green chili to Jason and Drew.
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