Featured Image – “Rocky Mountain Wilderness”

This photograph was made during a back country hike near Deckers, Colorado. The late afternoon light emphasizes the stark shapes of the rocks and rugged beauty of the area.

This area was the scene of a large fire a few years before the image was made and the results of the fire, the bare mountain sides and the bare tree trunks show the damage of the fire, but new growth also shows how the destruction of fire produces new life.