The Amazing Traveling Colorado Tourism Photo Shoot Road Show, Part 4-- Revenge of the Rain Clouds: All's Well That Ends Well

bottom photos by Aaron Beck

Highlights:

1. Working with a great crew: Jen Farquharson, our talented and lovely art director; Tommy Martinez, account executive and comic impersonator; Liz Long, the hardest working woman in production; Jere Long, location scout and fixer extraordinaire; Nathan Berry, production assistant and source of all useless factoids; Aaron Beck, my energetic and quick assistant. And a cast of two dozen-plus.

2. At Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde’s most spectacular cliff dwelling, the storm clouds and rain finally breaking at the very last possible moment to illuminate the sandstone arch and make the Anasazi architecture glow.

3. Faking out Liz by convincing her that we weren’t sure we got the above shot and would have to stay another night at Farview Lodge sans phone service, internet and t.v. The horror, the horror.

4. Shooting backstage during Vieux Farka Toure’s performance at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival.

5. Riding the highlift 30 feet above the crowds at Telluride as the day-long rainstorm cleared.

6. A crazy-busy, complicated, beautiful shoot at Denver’s Rioja restaurant and then enjoying an exquisite late dinner on their patio after the wrap.

The Girls

Every day is Christmas when you have chickens. You open the little door to the nesting boxes, peek inside, and Voila! a clutch of mocha, cream and chocolate-speckled eggs.  Just don't say the words "fried" and "chicken" when they are within hearing range. They're smarter than they look.