Crystal Colorado Ghost Town Photography Gallery

19 hours…It started off like many other of my long drives out west. Getting out of flat ugly boring Texas, why do I live in this state? I often ask myself every time I leave to go on a photo journey. My destination is the Crystal Ghost town in Colorado to photograph the mill on the Crystal River. I have wanted to see this place for a long time. So I took advantage of the extra day off for the 4th of July and headed that way.

I had read up before hand on how bad the off road is to get to the mill and ghost town. So I found Crystal River Jeep Tours online and contacted them about taking us there and dropping us off. These guys are great people to work with. They accommodated 4 of us and all our gear and were ready right when we showed up to move out.

They talked up a storm telling us the story and history of the surrounding areas. They must have repeated this millions of times for other people but still told us all about it with great enthusiasm.  It took us about an hour to get from their location to the mill. The road is pretty bad, but if you have high clearance and the car is not your every day commuter vehicle, you should be fine. You will just have to take it slow…really slow.

Below is all the info you will need to contact the guys at Crystal River Jeep Tours.
http://crystalriverjeeptour.smithfamilycolorado.com/
(970) 963-1991
CRJT-at-smithfamilycolorado.com

My main goal for this trip was to photograph the mill at night and light it up with a Surefire flashlight and get the atmospherics of the star trails, it was a perfect night with just enough clouds in the sky for a milky way looking effect. I thought after seeing it, it helped enhance to the image even more. My second favorite shot would be the low angle view with a somewhat cloudy sky. Just a slight break in the clouds helped illuminate the mill a bit in this shot.

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