March: Rocky Mountain National Park
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The Chapel on the Rock (officially, Saint Catherine of Siena's Chapel) is a popular tourist landmark in Allenspark, Colorado, visited by thousands every year. The chapel is located on the grounds of the Saint Malo Retreat Center, the retreat center for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, near Mount Meeker. In 1999, Boulder County designated the chapel as a historic site. Pope John Paul II prayed at the chapel during his visit to Denver for World Youth Day in 1993. Afterwards, the chapel received his personal blessing. The Pope later hiked in the surrounding woods and spent some time at the Saint Malo Retreat Center. The Saint Malo Retreat Center was destroyed by fire in November 2011, but the chapel was not damaged.
Sun and Clouds over Hallett Peak and Flattop Mountain
Image was created using LR HDR Merge on th e original file with -2.5 and -5.0 stop virtual images. The image was warmed up to 6750K and then fed to Luminar where the Image Enchancer preset was appled and a VERY light sunray filter was applied to accentuate the already existing rays and shadows in the clouds.
The lake was frozen over but was getting slushy. This didn't keep people from going out on it for pictures.
Andrew McDonald, Lorry McDonald
Bear Lake was frozen over so people were going out to get pictures. We couldn't resist so here we are, standing about 100ft out in Bear Lake.
The night sky from the deck of our hotel. You can see Orion just to the right of the center of the image. M42, The Orion Nebula is visible below Orion's belt. THe bright "star" on the right edge is the planet Jupiter.