Gallery: Intriguing Aerials of a Colorado You’ve Never Seen Before

  • Morningview The Meadows Castle Rock CO 2014
    Evan Anderman
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    Subdivisions like The Meadows in Castle Rock, Colorado, are becoming more common as the state's population booms.
  • Dragline Piles Powder River Basin WY 2014
    Evan Anderman
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  • Magenta Bloom Fort Morgan CO 2014
    Evan Anderman
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    An algae bloom turns the waste in this Fort Morgan, Colorado feedlot bright purple.
  • Four Deep Keenesburg CO 2016
    Evan Anderman
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    Rail cars wait to be loaded with oil in Keenesburg, Colorado.
  • Fracking Fracas Pawnee Buttes CO 2014
    Evan Anderman
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    A fracking operation in Pawnee Buttes, Colorado.
  • Burnt Sticks Deckers CO 2014
    Evan Anderman
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    The landscape near Deckers, Colorado is still covered with trees burned during the 2002 Hayman fire. As vegetation returns to the area, it gives the red dirt a greenish tint.
  • Improved Paradise Castle Pines CO 2015
    Evan Anderman
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    A golf course blooms amid the arid hills of Castle Pines, Colorado.
  • All Used Up Hudson CO 2014
    Evan Anderman
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    Tire mountain is home to 31 million used tires that will be recycled to produce diesel fuel, activated carbon and steel.
  • Latent Pipeline Windsor CO 2016
    Evan Anderman
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    Pipes await installation in Windsor, Colorado.
  • Standing Tall Limon CO 2016
    Evan Anderman
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    A wind farm near Limon, Colorado.
  • Retreat Eads CO 2015
    Evan Anderman
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    Drought has caused the shoreline of this reservoir in Eads, Colorado to recede.
  • Blades Windsor CO 2016
    Evan Anderman
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    Wind turbine blades await shipment at a manufacturing facility near Windsor, Colorado.
  • Mountain Dispersal Golden CO 2016
    Evan Anderman
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    A granite mine outside Golden, Colorado.
  • Patchwork Grid Yuma CO 2016
    Evan Anderman
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    Cows dot this feedlot near Yuma, Colorado.
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