Cabin at 12,000 Feet
Awards for this print:
Professional Photographers of America International Print Competition
Merit Award for 2012
The Story:
The cabin is in the ghost town of Ashcroft, Colorado, outside of Aspen. I had a very rough photo of it and had to do extensive work to make something of it. I even went back there to redo the photograph, but they had turned the cabin into a store room. The exterior (this being a composite) was originally a scene from one of my backpacking trips, and it (the background outside the cabin photo) was actually at 12.000 feet. However, I later changed my mind and used a scene from the area of Lake Powell Utah, just west of Page Arizona. I left the name as "Cabin at 12,000 feet" and while few have questioned it, the PPA judges said "we would have given you loan status on this (a very high honor), but we just didn't buy that the cabin was really at 12,000 feet". They were right. This one works great on either infused aluminum or as a canvas wrap.