Clinton Gorge Canvas Print

Clinton Gorge, Colorado. With wheeler mountain on the left and Clinton Peak on the right. These waters flow into Clinton George Reservoir which is a diversion Dam to keep these waters from being contaminated by Climax mine tailings.

The Climax mine, located in Climax, Colorado, United States, is a major molybdenum mine in Lake and Summit counties, Colorado. Shipments from the mine began in 1915. At its highest output, the Climax mine was the largest molybdenum mine in the world, and for many years it supplied three-fourths of the world's supply of molybdenum.

The prospector Charles Senter discovered and claimed the outcropping of molybdenite (molybdenum sulfide) veins in 1879, during the Leadville, Colorado, Silver Boom, but he had no idea what the mineral he found was. Senter quickly determined that the rock contained no gold or silver, but he kept the claims anyway. The following year he settled down to live with his Ute Indian wife in a cabin a few miles north, and...

I was born and raised in the magnificent state of Colorado. My love of the outdoors was nurtured by my parents, teaching me the value of nature and wildlife at an early age. Spending time in the outdoors hiking, camping and hunting only continued to encourage me to capture all the beauty I see in nature on film. I have been told for years that I had a "great eye" for photography, but it wasn't until I purchased my first DSLR camera that I started to see a whole new world open up to me. Inspired, I began to study photography in depth. Reading books and taking classes online from photographers like Kerry Dragger, William Neill, George Schwab and Doug J. Johnson It wasn't until I had taken a course taught by Jim Zuckerman, a world renowned...