more pics. Not in any particular order.

Josh surfing in Kaikoura
Sunset on the West coast.
mmm.
ferns, pancake rocks.
stairs. pancake rocks.
pancake rocks.
stars. milky way
ice designs. Arthurs Pass, ice on the inside of the windows.
Castle Hill Climbing
Lake Alexandrina
Lake Alexandrina
Lake Tekapo
Mt Cook Village
Mt Cook national park.

Mt Cook, tallest peak in NZ

#15

Glacier National Park. Amazing place. I took this while on a road trip with my buddy Seth. Every chance I get, I drive through Glacier. It is one of those places that sticks with you. Once you've been there you always remember it. Or at least that is how it is for me. Clear lakes, proud mountains, rushing rivers, beautiful, wild country. Cherish the wild places around you.

The first 2 summers I was here in CA i took some time off. Summer number 1, the brother sister team of Kate and Stephen flew out and we drove the length and height of the country. Three of us living in a 2door honda civic for 10 (ten) days. Can you imagine? If you have a similar story, please share it. It was such a fun time! We watched the world cup in Salt Lake City in an Applebees. We saw Yellowstone and then the Grand Canyon.

Summer number 2, Seth flew out and we took the northern route. Gabe's wedding. Good times. We got pulled over and searched after seeing Mt Rushmore, Seth tried to steal Washington... just kidding. It was an ordeal, funny now, and even a little bit at the time. We were looking pretty rough, many days on the trail. Good times.

Reminisce.

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Sunset over the ocean! Definitely something everyone should experience in their lifetime. The Channel Islands create a beautiful scape along the horizon. This is another one from my first session at Brooks. The sun is an amazing thing. A sunset where the sun sets solely beyond the horizon is nice, but when there is something else to reflect and distort the light its beauty multiplies. Clouds, water, distant mountains, faces of friends, wet beaches, life.

Leaving Home

The Grand Canyon, AZ. 2005. My first of many solo trips across the country. We got a good track of land here in the USA.



Heading west. Pursuing dreams and aspirations. Unknowns. Alone. I am so thankful for Rob and Jean offering their home to me! Knowing I had a place to stay was the deciding factor for coming to school in California. The generosity of these two people is a wonderful testament to a loving family, good friends, helping those you love. Thank you both so much! Words seem to fall short, but with all of my heart, thank you!

Joshua Tree

Stars

And now for something completely different:

Google search results:
"taylor swift" - 15,300,000
"taylor adam swift" - 403 (getting up there!)
"taylor alison swift" - 31,000
"taylor swift beating up a velociraptor" - 0
"taylor adam swift more popular than taylor alison swift" - 0 (still working on that one)
"taylor swift blog" - 3,880,000
"taylor adam swift blog" - 1,060,000 (interesting, of course all those hits aren't mine...)
"yes" - 838,000,000
"no" - 8,010,000,000
"how to lose weight" - 2,470,000
"how to gain weight" - 282,000
"i care" - 14,000,000
"i don't care" - 29,100,000
"i can't" - 298,000,000
"i cant" - 357,000,000
"i can" - 702,000,000 (yes!)
"i will" - 446,000,000 (alright)

So basically these numbers are how many sites have a specific word or phrase. Here are some pics. :)
Lake Tahoe

Eastern Seirra Range
Joshua Tree
"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it." -Sam Abell

Last Post for August!!

It has taken a while and now that September is all but over I am finally finished with August! Here are some pics from a trip to Zion National Park in Utah. It is an amazing place to visit, it was pretty hot but thankfully we were near a river. My buddy Josh and I drove through the night and arrived in Zion early to get a early start on the Narrow's Hike. This hike goes up through the North Fork Virgin River through canyons it has spent thousands of years making. It was pretty amazing! Unfortunately, there was a flash flood warning for later in the afternoon so we didn't lollygag in the canyon.

amazing sunset before embarking!
Jessica, Hannah, Josh, and me. Josh and I departed shortly after the sun set.
Sunrise on beautiful sandstone walls!
Into the canyons...




Early morning stratus covering the horizon
Cumulonimbus clouds forming just before sunset

"You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams

Redwoods

On August 7: Evan, Keri, and I made a banzai run to the Redwood National Park to experience some awe-inspiring magic. We found it... among thousand year old trees that extend out of view. We ventured down into the Tall Trees Grove along the Redwood Creek. Among beauty, past and present. Here is a short montage from the entire trip...

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” - Aaron Siskind

Sequoia National Park

The first weekend in August I was in Sequoia National Park with some friends. It was such a fun trip, lots of good conversation and I had not yet been to Sequoia so I was getting to see some new stuff! It was also cool because Sequoia is on the west side of the Sierra's and just a few weeks earlier I had been on the east side climbing Mt Whitney.


"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and the skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." - Edward Steichen