The Paint Mines are located East of Colorado Springs and South of Kiowa, about 100 miles Southeast of Denver. The nearest town is Calhan. The Paint Mines are among my favorite places to take landscape photos, I am drawn to the smooth, wind whipped rock formations. This was the first visit that had good weather and good light, my previous visits were socked in with low clouds. I arrived at 4pm, allowing 90 minutes to shoot. It was cool and the wind was light, making the two mile hike very pleasant. The sunlight was slightly diffused by a thin scud of clouds, softening shadows without fading the color. I was equipped with a Nikon D300
(for geotagging the images). I shot RAW at 14bits. Geoencoding of the images is accomplished by synchronizing the GPS unit and the camera. I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
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How do they find their way from Flickr to Panarimo? My pictures in and around Kyoto are much better than the snapshots in Google Earth, but last I looked, Panarimo required you to manually upload each picture through their browser, and while I’d like to contribute my photos to the Google Earth effort, it’s just not worth that much work. If I could find an automated way to contribute, I would do it.