by John Crane | Dec 17, 2020 | 4042n, Color Photography, Colorado Piedmont, Inspiration
Old stuff is just better. Going through images recently I came across this one, made several years ago while prowling around Colorado’s eastern plains. I’d been focused on an old fire truck parked in the shade of the volunteer fire station for an hour or...
by John Crane | Mar 4, 2019 | 4042n, Black and White, Inspiration
How honest do I want to be? How much of myself am I willing to reveal? I’m not a minimalist. At least not in the photographic sense of the word. While I occasionally admire the photo of a mostly empty hillside with subtle tones and a single, isolated tree positioned...
by John Crane | May 6, 2017 | 4042n, 6 Things I Love About Shooting the F6, aerial photography, Custom Settings Menu (CSM), Slide Film, Technical, Technical Features
Above: From left to right: Mount Meeker, Longs Peak, Keyboard of the Winds, Pagoda Mountain and Chief’s Head Peak. At center-right you can see the very tip top of the Spear Head, a triangular slab of granite jutting up through the clouds from the valley...
by John Crane | Jul 15, 2015 | 4042n, Destinations, Film Emulsions, Inspiration, Road Trippin'
A few weeks ago I needed to get out – as in far away from the computer – in a big way. The weather wasn’t good along the Front Range and checking the iPhone confirmed pretty much any place within easy driving distance was experiencing the same. It...
by John Crane | Jun 3, 2015 | 4042n, Destinations, Inspiration, Places, Vintage Nikon
From a recent 4042n jaunt to one of my favorite stomping grounds: North Park, Colorado. North Park is still old Colorado and I like that very much. Recent rains and early spring conditions (March 26) made for muddy travel but no catastrophies were had. You’ll...
by John Crane | Aug 22, 2014 | 4042n, Film Emulsions, From the Past, Uncategorized
For the past 10 years now the city of Fort Collins, Colorado has sponsored, in conjunction with Bohemian Nights Music, the New West Fest; essentially a birthday party for the city and fall jamboree for Northern Colorado, focusing heavily on live music. The scale of...