If you’ve ever bought a calendar or coffee table book featuring the grandeur of Colorado’s 14’ers, the stunning color photographs were almost certainly by John Fielder.
His output was stupendous: over 40 books of Colorado landscapes were published during his career as a nature photographer, which began in 1981. No doubt he had many more books to produce beforeOne book, though, became his blockbuster, appealing to almost everybody’s curiosity about how Colorado had changed over the last 130 years.
Sometimes he had to climb mountains — it took two trips up 13,248 feet-high Notch Mountain to capture Jackson’s photo of Mount of the Holy Cross. Other times he photographed from office buildings or knocked on the door of someone’s house to ask if he could stand on their roof. He said he needed two landmarks to be confident he was photographing from the correct spot.
Marston titled his first chapter, “A slow motion invasion of the rural West” by environmentalists like himself, starting in the 1970s. Old mining towns with unpaved streets like Crested Butte were being discovered by ski bums and other young people, he wrote, who thought they’d found a promised land. Of course, what they found they immediately wanted to change.
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