#COLORADO SCENERY PHOTOGRAPHY HOW TO#

You have to stay in your car while in this area.

The bison enclosure is the square area to the left of this map. This is a great place to get good pictures of Bison. It was once a chemical weapons manufacturing site, but is now one of the largest urban wildlife refuges in the country. Rocky Mountain Arsenal is on the north side of Denver, just a 15-20 minute drive from downtown. You can buy a range of prints of any of the images in this post at batty.photos – just click on any picture to go there. Of course there is no “sure thing” when photographing wildlife, that’s part of what makes it exciting, but it’s very rare that I have been to any of these places and not seen something interesting. In the rest of this post, I share some of my favorite spots for wildlife photography in Colorado, and what you are most likely to see at each. A little while ago someone posted a picture of a baby buffalo at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which prompted me to go out there the next day, and I got some nice pictures of the baby – and there have been other examples like this. It’s also a great place to get an idea of good places to go, and good times. The Facebook page is both a source of inspiration with many great pictures posted every day, and a supportive community. An excellent resource is the Front Range Wildlife Photographers (FRWP) group, who have both a meetup group and a very active Facebook page. I am fortunate to live in Colorado which is a great place for wildlife photography. Look on Facebook for wildlife photography groups in your area (or an area you are planning to visit), try local meetups, or just search on Google. These days there is so much information available online that it is easy to research. No matter how fancy your equipment or how great your technique, you won’t get good pictures unless you go to places with the right subject matter!īy the way, when I say you can get good pictures with your iPhone, please don’t be this person! But for example, here’s a recent picture from Rocky Mountain National Park taken by my partner Paula from the passenger window of our moving car, with a compact camera without a big zoom (Lumix LX7), in auto mode. You can go to several of the places listed here and have a great chance of getting some excellent pictures just pointing and shooting with your iPhone. It may sound obvious but it really is the most important thing. Top of the list is figuring out where to go (and when).

#COLORADO SCENERY PHOTOGRAPHY HOW TO#

This is the first in a series of posts on how to take better wildlife photos.

Colorado scenery photography