Wow I am really enjoying my time at Rocky Mountain National Park. The scenery is some of the most grand views I have ever seen. The park is kind of hard to photograph because there is so much grand scenery it is hard to choose a composition.
Last night I was at an area of the park called storm pass. It has a nice scenic view of Hallett Peak at 12,713 ft tall coupled with bright yellow aspens. Wow I am going to get some great photos the sun is setting and the mountains are in the west. Wrong the dramatic light never took place. The light did get soft for so so photos but not the pink alpine glow that I wanted. It still is a photo a tourist would be proud of but I was disappointed. 
I was in the Smoky Mountain mode. At Newfound Gap it faces east and is a great sunrise location. Just across the street is Morton Overlook which faces west and is a great sunset location. So I figured the same for the Rockies face west for sunset and east for sunrise. No wrong. It is the opposite here or so it seems.
Storm pass was too good of a location to give up on so I came back this morning. It took the light awhile but there was much more dramatic light on the mountains then the evening before and I got close to the photo I wanted. The light on Hallett Peak was warm and the color of the aspens were enhanced.
The first photo is of Hallett Peak at storm pass taken in the evening. The second photo is same place, same mountain, same camera, same lens and same composition. The only difference was the morning light. Light is the most important thing in photography. It will make or break a photo as seen from these two examples.
