Sunrise from Sunlight Peak

I receive a lot of email from 14ers.com users who would like to buy framed 14er prints. Since I own a few pictures by photographer Glenn Randall, I figured it would be helpful to add his links to the site. Glenn has a great selection of Colorado photos and recently added a portfolio of sunrise images shot from the summit of the 14ers. If you're looking for a 14er photo, check out his site. Glenn offers custom print sizes, framed or loose.

Here’s how Glenn describes his "Sunrise from the Summit" project:

"Summits are magical places. Reaching the summit of a high peak gives me the exhilarating, humbling and awe-inspiring experience of being a tiny speck on top of the world. To me, mountaineering is almost a metaphor for the human condition. It embodies in concrete form the way we reach for the sky, yet can only climb so high. In the spring of 2006, I began working on a series of images I hoped would capture these complex emotions. Most photographs I’d seen that were taken on summits were, to be frank, rather boring. How could that be, I thought, when the emotional experience of reaching the summit is so enthralling? Then I thought about when those photos were taken: at noon, in midsummer, when the sun is as high in the sky as it will be the entire year. Most summit photos taken at that time of day show distant, hazy peaks almost lost in the white glare of the midday sun. In an attempt to give my images an impact that matched my emotional experience, I decided to start shooting sunrise from the summits of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks."

So far Glenn has done 22 shoots on 15 peaks. Most entailed getting up at 1 am and climbing the peak in the dark. To see the best images he’s taken so far, please visit this page. Glenn has pledged to donate five percent of the retail price of any Sunrise from the Summit print sold through his website to the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI), the non-profit organization dedicated to building and maintaining sustainable routes on Colorado’s highest peaks. Thanks, Glenn!

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