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Welcome. Every day something happens in the state I'm blessed to call home: Colorado.

Without a camera to record, they fade anonymously with the certainty of each day's dusk. This gallery is my attempt to freeze, to remember some of these moment-and share a slice of this magnificent state with those unable to visit in person.

Persistently updated to keep it fresh, It's an exercise in the mechanical aspects of photography: learning the cameras, characteristics of a film, particular sensor, sweet spot of a lens, etc. And of course the aesthetic aspects-composition, exposure, and the all-important light. It also attempts to explore the intangibles-emotion, the moment, feeling- things I cumulatively refer to as, "The X-Factor."

Please enjoy.
-John B. Crane


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First Light at Rock Cut No 1, Rocky Mountain National Park, ColoradoFall River Road No  1, Rocky Mountain National Park, ColoradoCaterpillar, Rocky Mountain National Park, ColoradoElk Sparring, Rocky Mountain National Park, ColoradoCoyote, Rocky Mountain National Park, ColoradoFirst Light at Rock Cut No 3, Rocky Mountain National Park, ColoradoBrothers No.1, Wray, ColoradoMountain King, Mount Evans, ColoradoThe Preacher, Mount Goliath Recreation Area, Mount Evans, ColoradoFall River No 2, RMNP