A view of the Colorado Green Wind Project with Two Buttes in the background. Shot near Lamar, CO.

The 162 megawatt Colorado Green Wind Power Project, located 20 miles south of the Town of Lamar, was developed to help meet Colorado’s demand for renewable electricity. Completed in late 2003, the project utilizes 108 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines, the largest assembled in America. The project is owned by PPM Energy, Inc. and Shell WindEnergy Inc. in a 50/50 joint venture. The last time I was there, it looked like they were assembling more turbines.

The Colorado Green development was born through a competitive bidding process initiated by Public Service of Colorado where it competed with others forms of electricity generation including natural gas and coal fired generation and was found to be the lowest cost alternative.

I grew-up near this area and it’s an unreal site to see– the turbines are over a very large area of land and you can see rows of them disappear into the horizon.

You can check out a few more photos from this series here.

Colfax Store Window – Shot with Canon Rebel Xti w/ Tamron 17-50mm, shot handheld @17mm. ISO 200, f/8.0 1/500

I’ve been wanting to do a site like this for awhile, but haven’t quite had enough of a portfolio to really do much with.  Now that I’ve been taking photos continuously for about a year and a half with about 14,000 clicks in total, it seems like a better time.  Essentially I plan on this being mostly a photoblog to let my readers know about new photos, and perhaps to document some tips and tricks over time.

My first entries will likely cover photos I took long ago, just to get them out there. I’ll slowly catch-up to some of the stuff I’ve been working on lately.