Parachute photographer Amelia Price captures Colorado landscapes and life by way of her lens

Stepping into the world of artwork could be intimidating. Experienced artists create awe-inspiring work, and newcomers usually query whether or not they’ll ever measure up.

However, as new artists come into the area, it additionally opens up new avenues or roads they’d gone down after they have been youthful and by no means pursued. Being weak to the world could be scary, however Amelia Price did it anyway. 

Price grew up in De Beque her complete life, part of 4H and graduating highschool realizing methods to do her taxes from promoting market animals. She then moved to Parachute, the place she lives along with her husband and son, Fallon. 

“We’ve been together for 14 years and married for 10,” Price mentioned. “It’s been wonderful, we met in Parachute, he graduated from Grand Valley High.”

Price settled into life along with her husband, at present working at The Green Joint in Rifle.

“It’s actually kind of important to me, because I had some health issues when I was young,” she mentioned. “Medicinal marijuana can help a lot and sometimes I definitely feel judged because I work there.”

Price mentioned she’ll point out having a son and generally clients could have a wierd look on their face. 

“I think they think that because I work at a marijuana store that I sit around smoking weed all the time,” she mentioned. “Me having a family doesn’t match that judgement.”

Finding peace by way of pictures

Price mentioned one of many methods she feels at peace is to take pictures. 

“I started about four or five years ago and that’s when I started taking it seriously,” she mentioned. “I’d taken photos before, but this time it felt different.”

Price usually takes her digital camera on household journeys — snowboarding, mountaineering or simply heading out to benefit from the surroundings.

“We brought snacks with us and we just sat, enjoying the scenery,” she mentioned. “I took some photos and had a nice, relaxing time.”

Her work focuses totally on landscapes and wildlife, although she generally captures a lone hiker or boat on the water.

“I love getting those, to show there’s life there, but the lone boat says so much,” she mentioned. “Colorado is the perfect place to be an artist, there’s so many beautiful places out here.”

Price admitted she was intimidated at first, particularly as a result of panorama pictures is so common in Colorado. But she got here to see it otherwise.

“People tell me they live vicariously through my art,” Price mentioned. “To be able to transport themselves, even for just a moment, from where they are right now, sitting on a beach at the lake or watching elk, it can be a real help to people who aren’t easily able to get to those places, either from physical reasons or they just can’t at the moment.”

She mentioned that’s particularly significant in western Colorado, the place many individuals work lengthy hours in ranching, building, farming or metalwork.

“Being able to do that for someone, it feels good that I can help,” Price mentioned. “That my photographs are a moment away.”

Building a future by way of artwork

Price has began making calendars of her images and promoting prints.

“You could get one of my photos on canvas or framed for around $25 to $50, which is great,” she mentioned. “Or you can get 13 for a lower price and then get more every year.”

She additionally hopes to department out into portraits and small weddings, and he or she’s contemplating learning each pictures and psychology.

“I want to be a counselor or help people in some way like that,” she mentioned. “I’m a little nervous, but my husband and I have been talking about it for a little while.”

Price additionally talked about her husband’s grandfather, who does lots of writing and has been utilizing her pictures to accompany his items. 

“I’d like to write something too, one day, maybe an autobiography of growing up in a small town in Colorado,” Price mentioned. “Just to give people an idea of what that’s like.”

Poetry additionally conjures up her. She has titled a few of her pictures after poems, together with “The Road Less Traveled” after Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.”

“I was published in a poetry book called “Eloquence”, I wrote a poem and received a contest,” she mentioned. “That was really cool, it was when Colorado Mesa University was called Mesa College.”

Taking step one into doing one thing inventive or one thing you’ve needed to do for a very long time could be intimidating, however as Price found, the roads lead throughout, even again to the place you got here. While the highway diverged at one level, generally you’ll be able to journey the second highway within the yellow wooden at a later time. 

Price’s images could be discovered on Facebook under Priceless Captures Photography. Some of her work is at present displayed within the Bookcliffs Arts Center in Rifle.