John Fielder

Winter is Colorado's tranquil and seductive season, and outdoor photographer John Fielder has sought out the scenes that most evoke the subtle beauty of a Colorado winter. Capturing the sculptural shapes of snow blanketing trees and hillsides, and the stories told by tracks of recent visitors in the snow, Fielder shares the visual experience of this dazzling season. Outdoor writer M. John Fayhee provides the narrative to these alluring scenes, describing winter experiences of the backcountry traveler in the snow-covered Colorado mountains

The historic images of early west photographer William Henry Jackson capture a Colorado landscape both pristine and already dramatically affected by the onslaught on western civilization. Standing exactly where Jackson stood, and pointing his own camera in precisely the same direction, John Fielder has rephotographed Jackson's Colorado images to capture the often startling change that has occurred over the last century. The result is both breathtaking and stark, hopeful and disquieting. Jackson's and Fielder's photography is accompanied by thoughtful and provocative essays by respected experts in the environmental field: Roderick Nash, America's foremost wilderness historian and author of Wilderness and the American Mind ; Ed Marston, journalist and publisher of High Country News ; and Eric Paddock, Curator of Photography at the Colorado Historical Society. John Fielder describes the profound experience of traveling the state and seeing the landscape from Jackson's perspective, and reflects upon changes of the last 130 years

In 1998, acclaimed Colorado nature photographer John Fielder drove 25,000 miles and backpacked another 500 in order to stand exactly where his 19th century equivalent, William Henry Jackson, stood. From 300 different vantage points, Fielder pointed his camera in exactly the same direction as Jackson once had in order to reveal the changes in the Colorado landscape that have occurred over more than a century. Only 156 of these original then & now photo pairs were published in Colorado 1870-2000, the leather-bound big brown book that made history as Colorado's all-time bestselling regional title. Seven years later, the rest of the project will finally see the light of day in Colorado 1870-2000 II. The photographs in this volume are arguably more scenic and colorful than those of the first volume and yet at the same time equally historical. From Denver to Georgetown and Aspen to Mesa Verde, the change in Colorado's most historic towns and settlements is amazing and in some cases shocking. On the other hand, many of Jackson's original venues look much as they did a hundred years ago.

Autumn in Colorado means hillsides of golden aspen, cottonwoods turning brilliant shades of yellow, and scrub oak painting the landscape red. Nature photographer John Fielder winner of the Sierra Club's 1993 Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography, captures the beauty of the season in his new book, A Colorado Autumn, with autumn prose and poetry by some of America's most noted writers.

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