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title: "Journal: Trips Across Colorado"
url: "https://www.cosights.org/journal/"
site: "COSights"
author: "Astrid"
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# Journal

5 first-person entries by Astrid: light, weather, and the long drives between the places worth photographing in Colorado.

- [Waiting My Turn at the Ledge](https://www.cosights.org/journal/waiting-my-turn-at-the-ledge.md) (2026-09-09, 6 min read): On a clear September evening above Durango, I learned that the best light sometimes asks for nothing more than standing still and letting other people finish first.
- [The Basin, Three Months Late](https://www.cosights.org/journal/the-basin-three-months-late.md) (2026-09-02, 7 min read): I finally went back to Yankee Boy Basin for the shot I never manage to time right, and found out what a September storm does to a plan built for July.
- [Two Stops, No Patience, Denver](https://www.cosights.org/journal/two-stops-no-patience-denver.md) (2026-08-13, 4 min read): A tripod that never leaves the trunk finally comes out for Ferril Lake, and a restless afternoon refuses to settle until well past dark.
- [What Lowry Pueblo Kept](https://www.cosights.org/journal/what-lowry-pueblo-kept.md) (2026-08-01, 7 min read): A return to a great house on the sagebrush plain west of Pleasant View, and what the light took away this time that it once gave.
- [Vail at the Wrong Hour](https://www.cosights.org/journal/vail-at-the-wrong-hour.md) (2026-07-17, 11 min read): I went to Vail Village on a July afternoon knowing the light I wanted would not come until after I had already left, and photographed what was there instead.

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