Tenuous Thread Photography - Images by Aleksei Saunders - Colorado based Fine Art Photographer

Hallett Peak and Otis Peak catch the sun's rays across Nymph Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

A Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel chews a tasty treat near Rainbow Curve in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Storm clouds block the sun causing pools of light to form across Horsehoe Park in Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado.

Nymph Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park reflects Hallett Peak as the sun slowly rises on a cool June morning.

A Yellowbellied Marmot scans the high country from his rocky throne above Old Fall River Road, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Longs Peak floats above a sea of clouds in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

A bull elk calls in the evening mist in the Beaver Meadows area of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Frost rims the edge of a hanging aspen leaf.

A Red-winged Blackbird male shows a flash of red while flying along the shore in Crown Hill Park, Jefferson County, Colorado.

A fiery red sunset is reflected in Ferril Lake, the central lake in Denver's City Park, Denver Colorado.

A Pine Squirrel sits for a snack of pine cone in the Mount Evans Wilderness area near Echo Lake, Clear Creek County, Colorado.

As the sun sets a Canada Goose walks through golden puddles on Ferril Lake, Denver Colorado.

A Denver City & County Building is lit up with Holiday Lights.

A Union Soldier tops a Civil War Memorial, erected in 1909, and gazes west from the Colorado State Capital towards a Denver City and County Building lit with colored holiday lights.

A pinecone sits, covered in snow and frozen into the cracked surface of Sprague Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

A pair of pintos shares a secret by an abandoned farmhouse in the Pike San Isabel National Forest, Colorado.

The morning sun sets the Kissing Camel formation ablaze in Garden of the Gods park, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

A hairy crab spider waits for its next meal on a yellow flower in Roxborough State Park, Colorado.

An abandoned supply house along the Gold Belt Trail in Victor, Colorado.

Tumbleweeds grow up around the base of an abandoned barn in Denver, Colorado.

A strong wind catches the top of a dune and blows it back towards the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

Shifting winds cause sharp ridges on the crest of a dune in the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

Swirling winds catch sand and form a small sand devil in Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

Swirling winds create a heart shape of blowing sand in the Great Sand Dune National Monument, Colorado.

A lone crow flies out across the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado

A small pool of light remains on the darkened side of a dune in the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

A dead tree reaches out from the edge of a dune while others still cling to life at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

Medano Creek skirts the edge of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado.

High winds sweep sand from a tall dune in the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

A lone cloud peeks over the edge of the dunes suggesting moisture in the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado.

Pine trees tower above the shoreline at Sprague Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

A night time snow falls over Ferill Lake in Denver's City Park, Colorado.

Fractures and bubbles create an abstract pattern in the ice of Sprague Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

A line of prairie grasses suggest the outline of an old road between the Pawnee Buttes, Colorado.

Pawnee Buttes catch the last rays of light.

The sun sets over waving grass in the Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado.

Pawnee Buttes glow with the last rays of light.

A small, frozen creek runs past red willows and black cottonwoods in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

A simple wooden cross stands along a country road in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

The sun peeks between buildings on 17th Avenue, Denver Colorado.

Buildings tower over 17th Avenue, downtown Denver, Colorado.

A wall of glass and steel, downtown Denver, Colorado.

A abandoned willmill sits in a snow covered field, Arapahoe County, Colorado.