Mountain peaks of terrifying beauty-thrust to the skies, vast plains stretch to far horizons. Now internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer Art Wolfe has turned his lens upon the Columbine State to find new compositions in light, pattern, and color in the maiestic Rocky Mountains, the plunging depths of the Black Canyon of the Gnnnison National Park, the red rock of Wheeler Monument, and among the sensual shapes of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Colorado is blessed with a brilliant quality of light that intensifies the full palette of colors found in ndture--the saturated hh,e shies and pure white snow, a hundred shades of rust red on a rock formation, a yellow that shimmers in a grove of aspens. Wolfe also captures on film many members of the state's wildlife community: bighorn sheep, boreal owl, cite, black- bear, pronghorn, and black-tailed prairie dog.

Mountain peaks of terrifying beauty-thrust to the skies, vast plains stretch to far horizons. Now internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer Art Wolfe has turned his lens upon the Columbine State to find new compositions in light, pattern, and color in the maiestic Rocky Mountains, the plunging depths of the Black Canyon of the Gnnnison National Park, the red rock of Wheeler Monument, and among the sensual shapes of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Colorado is blessed with a brilliant quality of light that intensifies the full palette of colors found in ndture--the saturated hh,e shies and pure white snow, a hundred shades of rust red on a rock formation, a yellow that shimmers in a grove of aspens. Wolfe also captures on film many members of the state's wildlife community: bighorn sheep, boreal owl, cite, black- bear, pronghorn, and black-tailed prairie dog.

With many books and exhibitions to his credit,Art Wolfe brings something new to the task of photographing beautiful Colorado. Trained as a painter, he isolates pattern and light rather than merely framing scenic images. The result is an intimate landscape of nature at its grandest scale that fully reflects a personal vision. This magnificent hook shows Colorado as it has never been photographed before.

MOUNTAIN

RIVER＆LAKE

CANYON＆MESA

FOREST

VALLEY,PRAIRIE＆PLAIN