A Moment... worth the Wait!

It's been a busy week. Busy... actually might be an understatement. I have been waiting for the weekend and looking forward to 6 Flags. Early morning, just went to weather.com and checked the weather! And it just got a glitter, smile on my face. It said, 90% chances of Snow on Lakewood.

6 Flags was just amazing, lot of rides, good food, amazing weather and a perfect day!

Well time to go back home and the breeze picked up! The cold was bitter and harsh. We just hoped the train comes soon.

Well back on the way, it started raining and it reminded me of Bangalore, the same humid cold and rain pouring down like its not going to rain forever. Well, home sweet home and it was time to sleep!

Early morning, it was cold and the window panes suddenly started to rattle like some one is pelting hundreds of stones. At first I didn't know how to react, because I was so sleepy, but than I just ran opened the balcony and what I see! It was snowing and it was just Beautiful!

At 32^o F, I was in my balcony in my shorts and t-Shirt, enjoying the snow. They gave a small tickle every time a snow flake touched my face. It was so Beautiful, Serene and Magical! Everything just settled before the snow!

Yes that was my first experience of Snow! A moment for me, worth the wait!

6 Flags

I had been to an Amusement Park about 6 years back when I went to Malaysia's Genting Highlands! But this took me by surprise!

6 Flags Amusement Park a.k.a. Elitch's Garden was an amazing and beautiful place! Right in the middle of Downtown Denver, 6 Flags is a 70 acre amusement and water park.

Elitch Gardens was a family owned seasonal amusement park, theater, and botanic garden in the West Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado at 38th and Tennyson streets. For more than a century Elitch's was one of the most popular entertainment destinations in Colorado. It was nationally known for its lush gardens, the Trocadero Ballroom, the Theatre at the Gardens and the premier wooden roller coaster, Mister Twister. The park moved to downtown Denver in 1994 and later became Six Flags Elitch Gardens. The former location is being redeveloped. In August of 2006, Six Flags sold Elitch Gardens for a reported $170 million dollars.

Mister Twister

Mister Twister opened in 1964. It was a 96-foot (29m) tall wooden coaster, designed by John Allen of Philadelphia Toboggan Company, and advertisements promoted the fact that it didn't "have a foot of straight track". It was regularly rated as one of the top ten rides in the country until it stopped operating in 1994 when the park was relocated. Twister II at the new Elitch Gardens is a significantly tamer coaster modeled after the original.

One feature of Mister Twister was that, after ascending the first hill, the rider was within the line of sight of another coaster, Lakeside's crown jewel 'Cyclone'.

[Shot from Mister Twister while waiting for my Turn!]

This time 6 Flags was different. Beautiful blue skies, and decorated perfectly for Halloween time. Ghosts and Haunted places and skeletons scattered almost everywhere and of course, artists dressed up as Ghosts ran around scaring people!

I couldn't find anything until the sun went down and the place was lit up beautifully with lights all around! At one of the resting points, noticed the sun go down and the lights on the Round Up (merry-go-round) lit up, the American Flag flying high and the beautiful blue sky in the backdrop. Perfect for my Camera!

All in all a wonderful day, and with some wonderful photographs!

Downtown Denver

A week over in Lakewood, CO and still nothing but 5 shots of Denver Downtown!

Well it was a full moon day and was returning from work when I noticed the moon.

I have never see moon so clear, huge and with such great colors and glow! Well I had something to take pitures of. I was only worred that the moon would not go up and get bright by the time I reach my room!

Well thats what happened. But I wanted to capture the moon and so got a nice shot of it through the trees around the hotel

Well it was sunday and it was finally time to travel Downtown Denver. Companies with two good friends from work, I was all set for the small but exciting trip. On the way noticed a lot of church and they look so beautiful with the colorful trees!

Beautiful places to live by the foothills of Rocky Mountains!

Took the RTD (Metro) to Downtown Denver! Well the same old reason, no parking space! So the best possible way is to park at a town nearby and than thake the Metro to Downtown. It was a cold night and I was enjoying every bit of it. Booked our places at a restaurant and than was on the streets of Denver. It was a beautiful place, with almost no vehicles allowed and only the RTD busses running up and down.

Huge horse cairrages if you want to ride the beautifully lit street and a couple of Scotts playing Bag Pipers!

It was all happening here at Downtown. An experience I would never forget!

Colorado, Home to the Rocky Mountains!

I was having a wonderful and un-disturbed Sunday, when suddenly my cell phone rings and I notice its my CEO! Well no good, but than this turned out to be a wonderful news and I was off to Colorado on Thursday morning 2 AM!

12 hours into the journey and I get my first break to stretch my legs and walk around. Heathrow, London; one of the busiest airports in the world! After about 3 hours I get to board another plane for another 12 hours journey and on my way to Denver, Colorado.

The State of Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western and Southwestern regions of the United States.

The climate of Colorado is best described as being cool and dry compared to the rest of the United States. While that is generally true throughout most of the state, the climate of Colorado is very complex. The typical south-north/cooler-warmer variation in other states is generally not applicable at all in Colorado. The location of mountain ranges and surrounding valleys affect local climate greatly. As a general rule, with an increase in elevation come a decrease in temperature and an increase in precipitation. A main climatic division in Colorado occurs where the Rocky Mountains begin with the Front Range cities and the plains to the east, the mountains and valleys to the west, and the foothills as a transitional zone in between the two.

Well sounds a bit too complex, however this state has about 350 sunny days and is an absolute Paradise for Photographers! And what best time I could have selected, its Fall time and I have not seen any place as colorful as this.

Lakewood, CO a small town in CO, 15 miles away from Denver! A beautiful city, with few buildings, loads of fast food places, a lot of motels and beautifully surrounded with the Rocky Mountains! No better place I could have thought of staying at!

Well Saturday morning and I am off with my camera to a few near by places to capture Downtown Denver! The beauty of this place is that the air is so clear, wide spaces and everything is huge and I mean every damn thing you can think off!

Taken from the Simms and Union over pass, it is an amazing view. On one side of the overpass is the city of Denver and on the other side are the beautiful Rocky Mountains. For the first time I feel the urge of missing a Sigma 10-20mm!

Well here is what I have as off now with a beautiful cityscape of Denver Downtown.