The Steamboat Pilot & Today

Learning to use the different settings on your camera can help you produce a variety of photographs with vivid colors, sprawling landscapes or artistic views. The photos of Rabbit Ears Peak above illustrate the diversity that can be produced with a little know-how and the use of your surroundings to improve composition.

Learning to use the different settings on your camera can help you produce a variety of photographs with vivid colors, sprawling landscapes or artistic views. The photos of Rabbit Ears Peak above illustrate the diversity that can be produced with a little know-how and the use of your surroundings to improve composition.

Learning to use the different settings on your camera can help you produce a variety of photographs with vivid colors, sprawling landscapes or artistic views. The photos of Rabbit Ears Peak above illustrate the diversity that can be produced with a little know-how and the use of your surroundings to improve composition.

Wild Silvery Lupine flowers pop up near a pine tree on the trail to Rabbit Ears Peak. The trail is filled with great spots to snap worthy photos of wildflower meadows leading to one of the region’s signature summits. In this photo, the peak draws the attention of the viewer by being framed between the wildflowers across the bottom and the green arms of the pine to one side. A high f-stop setting required a lot of light to expose the photograph correctly, but ensured both the top of the peak and the foreground flowers could be clear and distinguishable.

Steamboat Springs resident Bill Yowell takes aim at a clay pigeon Sunday morning at the Three Quarter Circles Sporting Clays range west of Steamboat. The ranch features 12 shooting sites and a wide variety of shots with a range of difficulty levels.