This shot was made from Hwy 96, a couple of miles west of Westcliffe, CO on October 16, 2005. You need to move the scroll bar to view the entire photo. Click on the yellow rectangles to view pages with more explanation and aerial photoghraphs.
Below (as a thumbnail: click on it), a higher resolution photo of the central part, made on October 15, 2006. The mountains are named and elevation (in feet) is given. 13,123 feet is 4 km. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains stretch from Poncha Pass, near Salida, Colorado, in the north to Glorieta Pass, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the south. There are ten peaks over 14,000' high in this range
and 72 over 4 km high, and 86 thirteeners. The list of top Alpine peaks is given for comparison (click on 'Alpine').
A broader view of Wet Mountains Valley, including North Sangre de Cristo and some of Collegiate Peaks is shown below. The photo was made in May of 2007. Aerial views of the Cental Sangres you can find here.
Photo Technical Data
Top:
Size of the original: 17820 x 2068 pixels
Aperture f 8, exposure 1/500 s, 70 mm, ISO 100
Bottom:
Size of the original: 30000 x 1944 pixels
Aperture f 16, exposure 1/90 s, 200 mm, ISO 100
Right-top:
Size of the original: 22306 x 4988 pixels (note: Both images are large enough for a several feet large print)
Aperture f 8, exposure 1/500 s, 400 mm, ISO 100
Canon 1Ds Mark II, hand held; a composite of several photos.
A higher resolution photo of central part of Northern Sangre de Cristo range (click on the image for larger size).
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(click to enlarge)
Central Sangres Line-Up (click to enlarge; 9936 pix wide)
View from Hwy 69 South of Westcliffe Airport (click to enlarge; 7400 pix wide)
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