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Paste BN reporter and Your Take contributor Trevor Hughes enjoys capturing landscape views for a change of pace.

He used a Sony point-and-shoot to capture the fresh dusting of snow across the flanks at the 14,259-foot-tall Longs Peak, towering over Estes Park, Colo.

He edited this photo using his preferred app, Photogene. Hughes said the view was more overcast than he had hoped and the app helped bump the colors up.

"When shooting mountains in Colorado, I've learned that you have to get there early because clouds often move in later in the day," he said.

Hughes said the hard part about getting this shot was getting out of bed early enough to catch the first light. This vantage point is just before the road to Glen Haven drops into Devil's Gulch.

"Longs Peak is one of the most difficult mountains to climb in Colorado, and claims several lives every year due to extreme weather, altitude and exposure," he said. "I was trying to capture the sheer size of the mountain, along with it's massive cliffs, with this image."

He remembers taking a similar photo more than a year ago while covering tragic and devastating floods in the area.

"I wanted to come back when the National Guard wasn't blocking the road!"