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Seasons of Light, Impressions of Steamboat Springs and the Yampa Valley
Seasons of Light Impressions of Steamboat Springs and the Yampa Valley Author:Rod Hanna, Tom Ross A 192-page hard cover coffee-table book of photographs by Rod Hanna, portraying the beauty of the Yampa Valley---with a foreword by CBS broadcaster Verne Lundquist and text by long-time Steamboat Pilot and Today writer and editor Tom Ross. Fine art painters and photographers have understood for decades that there are certain locations in the gre... more »at American West where landforms are painted with exceptional light light that elevates their work and allows them to elicit an emotional response in people who view the imagery. As the seasons turn within the giant wheel of the heavens, patient observers can plot the subtle changes in the quality of light on a calendar. Steamboat Springs and the Yampa Valley, on the Western edge of the Rocky Mountains, in Northwest Colorado, is one of those special places where one can follow the Seasons of Light. This book is for those who sense a connection to the land and revel in its sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle beauty. Fine art photographer Rod Hanna has roamed this land for more than 30 years, training his expert eye from the headwaters of the Yampa River in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area to its confluence with the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. But it is the lush valley, abundant waterways, and massive snow-capped mountains in between that have inspired him to chase the light and capture this beauty over the years which he now shares with us. The incredible light becomes the subject, and the landscape---flowers, trees, grasses, rivers and streams, rock formations, and the color of the seasons provides the ultimate setting.« less