Slices of the Rockies - An X-Pan style gallery

As a first outing with my first medium format digital camera, the GFX 100S, I visited the Rockies for a long summer weekend. I quickly became enamored with the “X-Pan” aspect ratio that these cameras can compose in. A lovely feature is that the RAW file is still full 4:3 but imports into Lightroom in 65:24, making it easy to work with the files. All of these photos were taken with the Fuji GF 32-64.

This is a selection of my favorite shots in and around Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park. The beauty of this land is unmatched in my opinion, and I’m always left wanting more when I have to return back to Texas. More posts on this trip in other aspects and from other cameras coming soon.

An epic view along Trail Ridge Road, a pass open only a few months of the year that takes you up to around 12,000' 

Fishermen and hikers take a reprieve at Dream Lake

A freshly fallen, but still alive, pine in a dense pocket of woods

The sweeping valley in morning mist

A rushing snow-fed creek and the dense vegetation for which it provides

Saint Catherine's Chapel on the Rock, south of Estes Park

Longs Peak as seen from the peak of Prospect Mountain

A hunter-gatherer taking a pause during its work

It seems a small miracle that those heading west could navigate through scenes like this

A beautiful sky framed by pine and stone

An alpine waterfall at Emerald Lake which is fed by the Tyndall glacier

Blooming lilies on Nymph Lake

Longs Peak from afar