Colorado

Photos of the "Maroon Bells" in Aspen, CO are popular in calendars and publications that promote Colorado tourism. Photographers flock to this particular location to photograph the mountain's reflection in a small lake. The reflection appears at sunrise and lasts only about an hour. I arrived at Maroon Bells at 6:00 am, set my camera and tripod, and while waiting for the sun to rise, the clouds moved in and obscured the reflection. Disappointed, I packed my gear and started to hike out of the area, when I notice that the clouds would occasionally part and allow a brief ray of sunlight to fall on the mountains. I managed to capture one of these brief moments in this photo.