Steamboat Pilot & Today

Sleeping Giant rests on a stormy Steamboat evening late in September. The lesson from this photo: Keep your eyes open because it's really easy to walk right by a great photograph. With the bright fall foliage framing this shot in front and the rain cloud lingering over Sleeping Giant from above, this one worked out. Joel Reichenberger/courtesy

Supporters of the Advocates Building Peaceful Communities organization gather on the Routt County Courthouse lawn Thursday during a vigil to honor victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Photo by Matt Stensland

Steamboat Springs High School's Michael Wong, from right, intercepts the ball from Battle Mountain's Brandon Osorio as Will Petersen chases behind during Tuesday's game at Battle Mountain in Edwards. Dominique Taylor/Vail Daily

Routt County Sheriff's Office Deputy Paul Yonekawa, left, and Steamboat Springs Police Department Sgt. Gerard Geis were honored Thursday by the Advocates Building Peaceful Communities organization. Photo by Matt Stensland

Craig resident Fred Gerber submited this photo of Black Mountain to the Craig Daily Press. Submit your photos — of any subject matter — to the Daily Press by bringing your submission to the newspaper office at 466 Yampa Ave., or submitting online at www.craigdailypress.com/submit/photo. Be sure to include caption information. Fred Gerber/Courtesy

Not every great fall color photo has to be overlooking a vast vista. A stand of bright red aspen trees on Lynx Pass in South Routt County grew up right next to the road. A housing development was on the other side, so it was hardly some hidden gem. It was, however, beautiful. Holly Nelson

Logs poke out from a pond near Crosho Lake in South Routt County. Good photographers never let a reflection photograph go by unconsidered. In addition to the colors, this one works because the logs carry the viewer's eye straight to the shoreline and the trees. Robert Ball

Sand Mountain looms over a North Routt County fence and a brimming ditch. The lesson: Don't be afraid to change your plan. No one was counting on a roadside ditch offering a great reflection, but it did and it yielded a great photograph. Also, don't leave in too much cloudless blue sky. Richard Grant/Courtesy

The sun sets on Rainbow Ridge on Buffalo Pass. One of Rod Hanna's biggest rules to live by is "You don't know unless you go." That proved true for Rainbow Ridge, one of his favorite spots to photograph. Peak fall colors season had swept by the colorful outlook, but it still yielded a great shot. Jim Wickless/Courtesy

Supporters of the Advocates Building Peaceful Communities organization march down Lincoln Avenue on Thursday to honor victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Photo by Matt Stensland

Plein-air painter Maggie Smith and her artist friend Annie Meyer, not pictured, will be showing their work from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Artists' Gallery of Steamboat. Photo by Matt Stensland

Johnny Walker rolls a water trough dropped off during the 2011 community recycling drop-off event. This fall's event is Saturday morning at Howelsen Hill. Matt Stensland/file

Authors Hillary Jordan, left, and Naomi Benaron, right, pose with Barbara Kingsolver, the author who founded the Bellwether Prize they both received. Jordan and Benaron will speak at a free Bud Werner Memorial Library event at 10:30 a.m. Sunday about their novels on social justice issues. Stephen Hopp/courtesy

Elk Mountain. Submitted by: Bill Dorr

A fish made rings on the Elk River. Submitted by: Bill Dorr

Snow on Buff Pass, from Angels View Way. Submitted by: Bill Dorr

Snow on Mount Werner, from Pine Grove Road. Submitted by: Bill Dorr

Krista Drobek and her daughter Isabelle at the Old Town Hot Springs Pumpkin Float in 2011. Shannon Lukens / Courtesy

Submitted by: Julie Smith

Falling leaves. Submitted by: Bill Dorr

Falling leaves. Submitted by: Bill Dorr

Submitted by: Bill Dorr