Basalt photographer Pete McBride is showing some of his 15,000 photographs from up and down the Colorado River. Here’s a report from The Aspen Times (Scott Condon). Click through for the cool photo. Here’s an excerpt:
Some of the most stunning shots will be displayed at the gallery of the Wyly Community Arts Center in Basalt in an exhibit that opens Friday with a receoption from 6-8 p.m., and continues through Nov. 22. The Wyly is in its new home at the former Basalt library building in Lions Park.
McBride concentrated on getting images while flying over the river corridor because of the different perspective it offers. The aerial shots allow the river to be viewed more as a living entity, he said. When you try to absorb a tree, you don’t just look at a leaf; and when trying to understand what’s going on with the Colorado River and its major tributaries, it helps to get that bird’s eye view.
“Getting above things, that perspective highlights the human footprint,” McBride said.
More Colorado River basin coverage here.