KUSA – Colorado's claim to 300 days of sunshine may be an exaggeration, but if there wasn't a sliver of truth to the catchy slogan, Michael Papadakis would've found a sunnier place to call home.
"This is one of the 300 days of sunshine," Papadakis said outside his home in Golden.
Papadakis has never counted days of sunshine, but it's safe to say he pays more attention to the sun than most of us.
"I wake up in the morning and I know where the sun is," he said.
Papadakis practices what he calls "heliography."
"You're drawing or painting with the sun, and to go a little deeper, you're transcribing, I believe you're 'sunscribing' white light into a message," he said.
Papadakis has been practicing heliography for about five years. He discovered the art form while traveling across the Silk Road from China to Turkey.
"It was on that path that I discovered the power of a magnifying glass and the power of sunshine," Papadakis says. "I was painting with the sun through that entire trip."
