Patrick Traylor

Senior Editor for Photography and Multimedia

Patrick Traylor

Patrick Traylor is Senior Editor for Photography and Multimedia at The Denver Post, a position he has held since 2018. He joined The Post as a photo editor in 2012. Traylor earned his master's degree in photojournalism from Ohio University's School of Visual Communication in Athens, Ohio. Before that, he dabbled in freelance photography, worked as a photojournalist at newspapers in Illinois and Kansas and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

PHOTOS: The Dust Bowl in Colorado and the Great Plains

August 1, 2017 at 10:11 a.m.

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was an 8-year period of drought that devastated the American prairie lands encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, as well as neighboring territories...

PHOTOS: “Star Wars Canyon” at Death Valley National Park

July 25, 2017 at 11:16 a.m.

Military jets roaring over national parks have long drawn complaints from hikers and campers. But in California's Death Valley, the low-flying combat aircraft skillfully zipping through the craggy landscape has...

Captured: Cultivating agave in Oaxaca, Mexico as mezcal popularity soars

July 18, 2017 at 4:07 p.m.

Photographer Alec Jacobson is a National Geographic Young Explorer and the Executive Director of the nonprofit San Juan Independent at home in Telluride, CO. He photographed this story on mezcal...

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PHOTOS: Tube to Work Day in Boulder

July 14, 2017 at 2:10 p.m.

Tube to Work Day 2017 in Boulder, Colorado.

PHOTOS: Box camera portraits at Peru’s Snow Star Festival

July 13, 2017 at 3:56 p.m.

AP photographer Rodrigo Abd used 19th century photographic technology to make portraits of dancers, musicians and vendors on the edges of a festival in Peru's Cusco region. The Qoyllur Rit'i...

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Captured: Q&A with National Park Service photographer Jarob Ortiz

July 10, 2017 at 12:09 p.m.

In 2016, the National Park Service hired photographer Jarob J. Ortiz to document parks and historic sites across the United States as part of their Heritage Documentation Programs. We present...

PHOTOS: Independence Day across the nation, July 4, 2017

July 4, 2017 at 12:13 p.m.

With fireworks, parades and baseball games, Americans celebrate Independence Day across the country on July 3 and 4, 2017.

PHOTOS: Fight for disability rights, propelled nationally by ADAPT, was born decades ago in Denver

July 4, 2017 at 5:07 p.m.

On July 5, 1978, a group of disabled protesters participated in barricading two Regional Transportation District buses with their wheelchairs near the intersection of Colfax Ave. and Broadway. A major...

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PHOTOS: Arturo Hernandez Garcia watches daughter graduate high school

May 17, 2017 at 5:18 p.m.

Arturo Hernandez Garcia, a Mexican man who lived in the basement of a Denver church for nine months in 2014 and 2015 to avoid deportation, attended his eldest daughter's high...

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PHOTOS: Trail Ridge Road historic images from Rocky Mountain National Park

May 11, 2017 at 8:01 a.m.

Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park is 48 miles long with 11 miles above treeline and reaches a maximum elevation of 12,183 feet, making it the highest continuous...

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PHOTOS: The Dust Bowl in Colorado and the Great Plains

PHOTOS: “Star Wars Canyon” at Death Valley National Park

Captured: Cultivating agave in Oaxaca, Mexico as mezcal popularity soars

PHOTOS: Tube to Work Day in Boulder

PHOTOS: Box camera portraits at Peru’s Snow Star Festival

Captured: Q&A with National Park Service photographer Jarob Ortiz

PHOTOS: Independence Day across the nation, July 4, 2017

PHOTOS: Fight for disability rights, propelled nationally by ADAPT, was born decades ago in Denver

PHOTOS: Arturo Hernandez Garcia watches daughter graduate high school

PHOTOS: Trail Ridge Road historic images from Rocky Mountain National Park