Denver Photographer
During a spring snowstorm, I was walking through Cheesman Park when I noticed the skyline of Denver towering over some of the trees in the park. With a fresh layer of wet snow the trees were more so dressed like winter versus the month on the calendar. Cheesman Park may be a mile from downtown, but it provides ample opportunity to combine the elements of the park and the city.
Prints: Growth from the Park
An April snowstorm visited the Denver and once the storm had ended I went out to explore around the city. My last location was City Park which has a nice layer of snow but it was the wet snow covering the trees in the park which caught my attention. As I walked through the park I was looking at the trees and finding the interesting look of the still barren trees covered with snow. The skies were starting to clear as well which provided some definition into the clouds providing additional texture to the image.
Prints: Spring Snow on a Tree
Over the years I have captured the first sunrise in Denver of the year. As the city continues to grow looking at the current year and comparing it to the prior you may find changes. However when you look over the years you start to easily see the differences in the growth in the city.
On this image I took at the start of 2014 the skyline is filled in with the growth since the start of this latest boom in the central core of Denver.
Fast forward to 2021, or seven years later, and a handful of buildings make a noticeable change along the skyline. Looking careful you can also see some tower cranes in image.
In the next few years we will continue to see the growth of the skyline. However it may be harder to notice it from this perspective as the growth continue to head north of the downtown core. Other buildings added will be behind by those already along the skyline in most instances. It will be interesting to see how this will look in five to ten years.
April is the second snowiest month in the Denver area. Thus it wasn’t too much of a surprise when waking up to snow on an April morning a few years ago. With the fresh snow falling I grabbed my camera to explore and wasn’t really expecting to find a scene like this in City Park. Some of the trees had a mixture of leaves and also flowers as they didn’t hear more snow was coming. With the snow falling the blossoms combine into the scene with the snow letting your eye think if this is snow accumulating on the tree, blossoms or a mixture of both.
During the summer of 2011 the Tennyson Streetscape project took place in Northwest Denver. I spent most of the summer documenting the changes taking place on Tennyson between 38th and 44th Streets. In addition to the walkability of the street they also removed the streetcar track which were under the current paving. The following scene was taken just north of 38th looking north along the street.
The rail which you see here is most likely 100 years old as it was starting to be removed from the street. The majority of the rail extracted was recycled and in talking to the contractor they included this in their bid to lower the cost for the city.
This past fall I revisited this area on a Sunday morning to capture the difference along the street over the nine years. From about the same location I was able to capture this image.
One of the first things you may notice is the development which is starting to go vertical along the street. After the streetscape project took place lots of new development moved into the area onto Tennyson but also the streets nearby as well. A new development is also in the works for the building beyond the orange barrel in the original image and also behind the white truck in the recent. It will be interesting to visit this same spot in the upcoming years and see how it continues to change.