Welcome to Wide Eyed Images!

Welcome to my landscape photography posts and forum for their display!  As a Colorado Photographer specializing in nature and landscape photography I am happy to present these images for your enjoyment.   Please browse at your leisure.

 My photographs are displayed as realistically as possible, as a friend by my side would see these places through their own eyes. In post processing I make only minimal adjustments to the images, slight exposure corrections or color balancing.  When shooting I only use neutral density and graduated neutral filters, nothing to modify the landscape before me but rather most adequately capture what I see at that moment.  I don’t feel the need to alter the significant visual experience of our wilderness from it’s presented natural form.  Spending time in our national forest and park areas is a privelege.  I’m thankful we have these places to experience and pleased to share them in this capacity. 

I welcome any and all comments, discussion, questions, and of course…compliments! Images are available for purchase as fine art gallery prints or as greeting cards.  I’ll work hard to make sure any order you make is delivered to your satisfaction.  I must state the obvious at this point so bear with me; all images are the property of David Korn and Wide Eyed Images and are not allowed to be used or reproduced without my consent in writing.

Check out the links in the section at the right of the page if you are interested in photography or in simply getting outside; they are fantastic resource sites.  As a note, I do have a personal association with Families First, a local non-profit organization that does difficult work with abused kids in our community.  It is important people know there are resources available for things other than hobby or recreation…Thanks for visiting Wide Eyed Images.

“The object of art is to give life a shape.”  Shakespeare

Unique. Otherworldly. Desolate. Dramatic. Death Valley!

Above – Zabriskie Point. A must hike, best done from a few miles below in the valley from the Golden Canyon Trailhead (uphill at the start, downhill to the car!). Hikers wind their way through the maze of ridges and sediment to this view. Return can be a loop through other canyons back to the parking area. Bring water!

The preceding three images are from Badwater Basin, the famous salt flats of Death Valley. It is truly unique, miles of “table salt” flats. It is like nothing I have walked across before. This is the lowest point in North America at 282 feet below seal level. We visited in mid-November, I cannot begin to imagine any time here in the summer.

Sunrise in the Mesquite Dunes.

So many interesting images in the dunes, I had a difficult time picking a few to display. It was so quiet and peaceful here and never an end to compositions. Textures worked for both black and white pictures as well as for color renditions

Above, canyon rocks near the Natural Bridge hike. Below, parting shot from Zabriskie Point on our way back toward Las Vegas. What a privilege to visit this stage and beautiful place.

Denver Metro Wildlife

Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Doesn’t sound like a wildlife refuge, but there it is anyway, right near the heart of urban Colorado. The refuge lies literally 15 minutes from Denver’s downtown, an oasis of reclaimed land (once designated as a munitions dump) that houses deer, a wild bison herd, bald eagles, and countless other wildlife amid nearly 4 million front range residents. Fall is a great time to view the residents…

More Color! (Enough Said…)

Autumn Views From a Favorite Place

It is probably deja vu posting yet another set of images from one of our favorite places to take an easy hike and take in amazing views – spring, summer, fall, or winter are the best times to visit here. The trail starts low and winds its way subtly through fir and aspen on a pleasant uphill; good enough to know you’re hiking but not too much to tire you out!

Once on the ridge the views open up, as though there may not be an end to the vista in any direction looking west. We are a big fan of the tree, lone and noble in stature, standing guard over the valley and the distant Gore Mountain Range.

We stop here to have water and snacks. The sun is warm, but quickly approaching is the reminder that while autumn is now in full glory winter is just ahead of us on the calendar. Within the half-hour a cold front has blown in with strong winds and snow flurries. They always say that if you don’t like the weather in Colorado just wait 15 minutes!

Before heading down toward the car (and just beating some snow) I duck into another awesome grove of aspens with the Gores viewed through there trees…you can see the darkening skies over the peaks in the upper right corner of this image.

Above, a last glance as we head down the trail. Below are leaves at our feet, the current victims of the changing season.

Lake Hiyaha RMNP

A late summer hike in Rocky Mountain National Park, a beautiful day, glacial blue water and clear skies! What a great way to spend the morning here in Colorful Colorado.

Mt. Antero, Yet Another Colorado Fourteener.

From the summit of Mt. Antero (Colorado’s 10th highest peak at 14,276′) looking north. The nearest prominent peak is Mt. Princeton. Antero is known not only as a Fourteener, but also it’s abundance of gemstone mines…

Black and white image of the layered ridges as seen from our Antero summit climb. Notice far right/middle the jeep roads that serve prospectors even to this day. The valley that opens up below (left) is the Arkansas River Valley with the flat area that of Salida, CO. You see beyond Salida the beginning rise of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains as they progress toward New Mexico.

Again from the summit, Cronin Peak is a beautifully colored mountain and the state’s 75th tallest at 13,877 feet. The red is a giveaway to the rich mineral content in the area, criss crossed with old jeep and mining roads that sometimes reached 13,000 feet in elevation, including activity on Antero itself the day we hiked.

Sunflowers!

Sunflowers! Everywhere…we put it on our list every August – go find the sunflower fields east of Denver International Airport. We never know exactly where they will be planted from year to year, but do our best to search them out. This year was again successful and the hundreds of acres did not disappoint.

As I said, we were east of the airport. I guess it was appropriate to catch a few local pilots coming in for a landing!

Loaded with pollen, it’s a wonder they can fly! Close up of a worker going about his or her business…

Alpine Wildflowers

Shrine Ridge from Vail Pass, looking to Mt. of the Holy Cross

Summer brings color above treeline. From my favorite the Columbine to the deep red of paintbrushes, flowers add beauty throughout Colorado’s high country.

Colorado Columbine

Columbine and Alpine Sunflowers on a bright rocky hillside.

Asters and Forget-me-Nots

Paintbrush on Loveland Pass

Trailside Garden

Buttercups high on the slopes of Mt. Princeton

Sky Pilot and rocky terrain, looking south from 13,000′ toward Mt. Antero, another Colorado Fourteener

Tahoe!

The rocky shore of the incomparable Lake Tahoe on a blustery evening

Normally the deep blue water of Lake Tahoe gets all the attention, but the texture of the rocks on the shoreline, the line leading to the small squall coming over the mountains, the dramatic lighting, all make for an image that works well for a black and white format.

Secret Cove…not so secret after all! We beat the crowd in the morning and had the opportunity to capture the calm. Eventually it got busy, including some nude sunbathers (who avoided the cold water for the most part!)

Waves and Waterfalls

Waipo’o Falls, located in Waimea Canyon, is an 800 foot tall cascade. We were able to take a 3 mile out and back trail that got us to the top of the falls, but unfortunately didn’t provide a better view than this one from a pullout en route to the trailhead.

High surf from Anini Beach, looking back toward Kileau Lighthouse. The following images are from various points on Kauai’s north shore.

Finally a few waterfalls, including a small coastal falls near Queens Bath (Princeville), and Ho’opi’i Falls, a short drive from our condo and the town of Kapaa.