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Colorado Street Stories The Ubiquitous Teller by Ron Rudolph Many a traveler to Gunnison beds down at the charming Teller Street Cottages. On Teller Street in Frisco, the co-ed hostel known as JustBunks draws people interested in local recreation. A Teller Street spands Lakewood and Wheat Ridge. Salida and Broomfield each have Teller Streets, too. Who was the sire of all these thoroughfares? Henry Moore Teller emigrated from New York to Colorado during the gold rush of the mid-1800s. He practiced law in Central City, where a hotel is also named for him. Elected one of the new state's first two senators in 1877, he resigned to serve as Secretary of the Interior under President Chester A. Arthur. Teller returned to the Senate as a Republican, then became a Democrat to support use of silver as well as gold to back U.S. currency. He introduced the 1898 resolution that led the United States into the Spanish-American War to free Cuba, but didn't want the war to extend to the Philippines. In his later years, Teller supported progressive social policies. Teller's mark is also all over Colorado attractions. Teller Mountain rises 12,615 feet south of Montezuma and is a favorite destination for off-road drivers. Boulder mountain bikers pedal the trails around Teller Lake. Teller City—once a booming silver-mining town in Jackson County—became a ghost town overnight in 1884. And Teller County encompasses wide swaths of the Pike National Forest. To say that Teller made a name for himself in his adopted state would be a monumental understatement. Ron Rudolph has driven through all contiguous states except Arkansas and Oklahoma. Taking Better Photos Converting form and texture to film By Jerome Shaw Key elements in any photograph are form and texture. While form and texture exist in three dimensions in the real world, they must be rendered in our two dimensional photographs as shadow and highlight. The quality and angle of the light is the key to capturing both form and texture on film. Even subjects that have defined texture and strong form will not exhibit these qualities on film as intensely if you do not have strong directional light. To capture strong textures and forms in our photos we do not want diffuse light—light from multiple directions or sources that softens textures and flattens forms. We want a directional light from a single source. Sunlight, when not diffused by clouds, dust, trees or other matter, is our primary single source light. It creates wonderful textures in our photos, especially when coming across our subject from the side and from a low angle in the sky rather than straight over head. While textures are still present in our subjects even in diffuse light, they are not accentuated because of a lack of shadows. It is the shadow detail created by strong directional light that gives strength to the textures as they appear on film. Rendering strong forms on film is enhanced by having one side of the form in stronger shadow than the other. If the form is uniformly lit from all sides, the shape will flatten and any texture in the form will be minimized. Days with strong directional light coming from low in the sky will help enhance the textures and strengthen the forms in your photos. Jerome Shaw has been a professional photographer for 25 years and teaches workshops for beginner and intermediate photographers; www.jeromeshaw.com. Colorado finalists in AAA Travel Challenge The first round of the second annual AAA Travel Challenge was completed in late January. The five Colorado finalists are: Pratyush Buddiga, 9th grade, Rampart High School, Colorado Springs; Zachary Kubin, 10th grade, Olathe High School, Montrose; Carolyn Parcheta, 12th grade, Gateway High School; Aurora; Geri Weinstein, Highlands Ranch High School, Highlands Ranch; and Michael Wilkerson, 11th grade, East High School, Denver. In March these students will take a proctored written exam. The state champion, accompanied by a chaperone, will fly to Orlando, Fla., for the final competition (April 24-27) at Universal Orlando and a chance at a $25,000 scholarship. |
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