iPhone Photo
This week I am back in Colorado again for my iPhone photo. While skiing I only had my iPhone on my to take pictures. We were on the top of Mt. Werner when I saw this bust of Buddy Werner for whom the mountain is named. We were on our way to take Buddy’s run down the mountain which yet again is named after the former Steamboat resident. Buddy has an interesting story which I thought that I would share here. As I said he was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado where he was on the ski team. While there he qualified for the 1956 Olympic games. That was the first of three games in which he would ski. His final Olympics in 1964 he skied on the same team as Billy Kidd who was the subject of last week’s iPhone picture. At the end of the 1964 racing season Buddy retired at the age of 28. He had his whole life ahead of him, and he was the first great american skier. Three weeks after retiring he was in Switzerland filming a ski movie when he was caught in an avalanche with another skier. He made it out of the first avalanche, but the second one consumed him. His body was found a few hours later after he had died. It is hard to believe how much this man had seen by 28, but that is still too young to die. The mountain at Steamboat really has honored him though in many ways. If you ever get the chance to go you can see them as you make your way around the mountain.
Technical Data
This was shot on my iPhone 5, but not processed on it as past photos have been. I imported the picture into Lightroom to work on it a bit. The dark tree and sculpture along with the bright white snow did not have much color to it. The color that was there was distracting. I converted the picture to black and white using Matt Kloskowski’s strong HDR black and white preset. That really got me close to where I wanted to be. A little tweaking of the sliders, and this shot was ready to send to WordPress to be placed in this post.
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