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New Photos from Maine, Utah, and Santa Fe. The Bigelow sunset shot was acutally taken last summer on my 5 day vacation in maine, I just forgot to add it to my photos when I scanned all the others in. The tumbledown mountain shots were taken on my post OMNICamp "decompression" hike. Spending a couple days here without kids (meaning I could be the kid!) was really great.
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The photos in this album are here because I REALLY like looking at them. Some of these photos I like becase they are technically superior, and some because they are emotionally rich for me, in which case, someone else may not understand why they are in here.
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A couple years ago I discovered what fun can be had with water and a slow shutter speed. It's amazing how the effect changes with different shutter speeds.
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This is a great trip that Kush, Lisa and Jonathan and I did the first weekend in October. I had done this hike 2 years previous, but this time it was a completely new experience! 2 years ago there was only one pool in all of buckskin and it was only thigh-high. This time around, we had 3 pools that were 5 feet deep, and countless waders. The miles of slogging through 6 inches of super-goey mud was also unexpected. When we reached the first wading pool, we were all reluctant to take the first step - knowing that after that step, our feet would not be clean or dry for the next two days. In retrospect I think we will all agree that the mud and water, however intimidating at the moment, made the trip exciting, and quite memorable.
Please Check out Kush's album from this trip also!
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I've been wanting to go here for a couple years now - ever since a saw a poster of Havasu Falls the office of a friend. I finally went, and it was better than I imagened. Joined by my new found friends Roberta, Helena, and Nim, we made the long journey to this remote corner of the southwest during Thanksgiving holiday.
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My third visit to White Sands was certainly the "charm". Coming with an amazing group of people, and being smiled on by the weather gods were key ingredients to this visit. I got to play with some really great light in the evening and early morning.
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Dania and I took 3 weeks to explore each other, nothern Italy and Belgium. The quick itinerary is Brussels to Milan, to Valtelina (Huge Alpine valley north of Milan) back to Milan, to Torino (Turin - city of winter olympics!) to Limone Piemonte (ski-town in Liguria - far western italy not far from coast) back to Milan and then back to Brussels.
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I've been to Canyon De Chelly twice in the past and fantasized about hiking and camping down in the canyon. This was the trip when it happened! Even though we got a very large group together (11) to minimize costs, it went very smoothly. From meal planning and gear equiping to road-logistics and meal cooking we all worked and played very well together. The crew were: Stephanie, Kush, Keshev, Coriander, Zack, Gabriela, Erin, Johanna, Roberta, Simon, and myself. Stephanie was awesome with all the guide logistics. Stephanie also made each car a Navajo and Canyon De Chelly history and culture guide complete with poetry! As Kush would say, You Rock! Johanna deserves kudos as well for a great job getting us together for meal planning and organizing the food buying - you also Rock! And everybody else deserves praise for the great "girl" songs in the car, and all around good company. Thanks!
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I didn't take any of these photos, but just had fun playing with some photos of Roberta that she gave me.
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This is a really sweet sculpture on an old landfill in north-west Santa Fe. I guess it's not an exact replica of the arrangement of Stone Henge, but it certainly evokes the association. Since we were there on the 25th, only 4 days after the solstice, it was apparrent that it is directly aligned with the solstice sunset - well done. I highly encourage a visit!
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The day after I arrived in the beautiful Northwest (Aug 9 2006) Mom and I went to an apparently cloudy Hurricane Ridge. When we got to the Visitor Center, to our surprise and pleasure, we were above the clouds! We took it easy with a short hike but enjoyed every step with the deer, chipmunks, butterflies, birds and who knows what else?
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Ahhh, the frist time that I've REALLY been sailing on dad's 24' Sailboat, the 'Pacific'. It's a beautiful San Juan 24' from sometime in the late 70's I think. The weather was perfect - warm, sunny, and about a 10 mph breeze. It's the first taste of many fantastic sailing trips to come!
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The first day of the trip started cloudy and ended sunny - started along the same raods, ended on different roads. Good omens appeared and the good luck to follow.
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The second day of the trip starts well with a great hike, some interesting Kerouak and an encounter with an impressinve person. Our first travels on the loneliest road are striking - not nearly as boring as I thought, but quite diverse. We find Great Basin NP to be a diamond in the rough.
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High adventure here. Above treeline scrambling and glissading! Amazing glacier-fresh water and incredible views into the interior Olympics.
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These are some of the first serious photos I've tried to to take with my RB 67 camera. Being limited with only a 180mm lense, I'm pretty happy with how they've turned out. And, they can be printed BIG. I made a 24"x29" Print of the sea-stack and it's beautiful - could probably go larger!
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This season, so much snow has been dumping that the road to the ridge has been closed most weekends. It's only open on weekends for the ski-area when they can get it plowed with the one plow they have. I lucked out and the weather this day was pristine! Fresh snow, mountians and blue sky is damn hard to beat!
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We meet our acquaintance from the previous night on our way up the mountian and enjoy a pleasant conversation. Some impressive elder hikers are on this trail and my hips seem to be up for the entire 3000 feet of Navada's Wheeler Peak. Good weather smiles on us all day through ascent, lunch, descent and bathing.
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The cave tour is surprisingly fun - some new formations and a ranger with the gift of storytelling. We continue on the loneliest road to an even lonelier road. Our awareness of the types of people in the world expands from the barrenness of Gabbs to the bizzare of Hawthorne. Mono Lake and a phenomenal sunset welcome us to California.
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Bodie gives us an appropriately cold welcome and leaves a distinct impression. Mono lake inspires wonder and amazement, and Yosemite welcomes us with beatiful weather and friendly people. We get some good toproping in based on the recommendations of our breakfast waitress at Tioga Pass Resort.
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We make our way from Tuolumne Meadows to The Valley hitting some beautiful alpine lakes and Vernal Falls along the way. We experience the insanity of The Village in the summer and make our mark on the valley with some stone nature art in the Merced River.
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This is the day we finally make it to the west coast - San Francisco baby! Big was the word of the day: A big hotel, big chunks of rock, big waterfalls, big trees, and the big city.
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The day for wine! We hit two great wineries. After a huge, commercial winery in Sonoma, we hit a delightful little, family winery in Napa. We finished with a fine fire in Lassen NP - and a case of wine in the car!
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Our trip to hell and back! Lassen was another pleasant surprise with the living earth of steam and boiling water, alpine lakes, beautiful streams and an abundance of flora. To my extreme delight, Arielle (my sister) met us just north of Crater Lake for a fantastic camp-fire grilled steak dinner.
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We got to find out what everybody had been talking about when they stumbled and effervesced when describing the "blue" in Crater Lake. Damn shocking. The boat-tour is a must, as well as cliff diving in the clearest water in the world.
We slept in beds again in Eugene!
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This was a pretty routine drive with a small detour at the Capital - Olympia. Rain fell on us for the first time in 10 days - it was welcome. Indian fare with Dwight was fantastic, as well as watching he and Seish get to know each other. I think they hit it off well.
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Today we honored the car with a very through clean - never been that clean since I bought it! The visit to the coast was surprising - I fell in love. I will go back for more photos with the real gear!
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The first day really backpacking in the olympics is fantastic. I don't think we saw a single cloud in this "rain forest". 7 miles and 3000 feet made eating heavenly and sleeping a breeze.
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Jen's all-to planned visit to New Mexico ended up being an appropriately ad-hoc ramble through the southwest due to bad weather predictions in the Gila Wilderness, and a brilliant suggestion by Kush - "There's always Mexico..."
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Guido was the focus of this trip! His genius wife and my good friend Marla had been planning this surprise birthday party in Lake Mead for him for over 9 months! While Lake Mead was the main destination, there were a lot of people between there Port Townsend that I had not seen in quite some time. Avoiding the road weariness of long road-trips-past, I opted for going very slow and seeing lots of great people on the way. This worked splendidly! I never tired of the road and the visiting time I got with friends, including Guido and our fellow NM cohorts (13 at least), was extremely enjoyable. Thanks to all you wonderful people! Obviously, one of my focuses on this trip was my photography, so there's a lot of photos in here from different places of natural beauty I visited along the way. I hope you enjoy!
