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We had a cold front come through town today, and the clouds lined up nicely for a spectacular sunset.It was windy enough that I had to anchor the tripod by hanging the backpack on it, and it got pretty chilly very quickly, but all in all, it was worth it as usual!
After quite a bit of time not shooting, I had to make sure the camera still worked, and that I knew how to use it. When my friend Gregg mentioned that he wanted to take a trip up to Rocky Mountain National Park, to shoot landscape and the elk herds, I thought it’d be fun to go. Especially since it was supposed to be cold and snowy at home.
Way back in April or May, Chip and Joanne sent out a note saying to reserve the weekend of July 12th and 13th for a camping trip to Winfield Colorado. As a group, we’ve stayed in this location a number of times before. There’s a number of large places to set up group camping, an outhouse for the people who prefer not to use the great outdoors. My only complaint: I’m going to have to buy a camper. I’m getting too old (and/or lazy?) to have to crawl in and out of a tent!!!? I’ll use the excuse of “I hate setting up a tent in the rainâ€â€¦ Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.
On the weekend of May 17th, Erie had it’s annual Balloon Festival. I met Gregg again this year, quite early in the AM. The difference this year? We sat around an waited a LONG time for people to start launching. Last year, they were launching at sunrise, but for some reason, at sunrise, none of the launch teams had even showed up yet. They started trickling in shortly after sunrise, and took at least a couple hours to set up and launch.
On May 3rd, Gregg called the group together to do a Photowalk in Boulder, CO.
Gregg and I have shot on Pearl Street Mall before, but this time, he published the walk at Photowalking.org, and he got quite a few more people to join us.
Kelsey Hogge is getting ready to leave on a Mission to the Manchester, England area (not England Manchester!!!) for the next 18 months, so we all decided we’d better get together, as this may be the last full family reunion opportunity for about the next 12 years as each of the kids start out their young adult lives. I’ll be adding some more detail to this post as time allows, but wanted to get the pictures posted as quickly as possible.
A photo excursion to Canyonlands National Park / Dead Horse Point State Park.
About a year ago, Gregg mentioned that our photography group needed to do a photo trip to Canyonlands and Arches National Park. Finally, we decided to just pick a weekend, and Presidents Day weekend seemed like a good time since everybody usually skis that weekend. We got very lucky in that it snowed quite a bit the Wednesday before we got there, so we had the combination of red rock, white snow and blue sky. Very patriotic! It would have been great to be there for the full lunar eclipse this week, but maybe in 2010 for the next one… 🙂
After a week or two of unusually cold weather, it warmed up into the mid-40’s today, which creates awesome snow for the construction of some outdoor friends.
So…. my neighbors kids (Kayden and Kyndall) decided (with help) to build a snowman in my front yard (which had yet to be disturbed by zillions of tiny footprints.) Once we got the snowman up and prepped, Nikki thought it would be funny to add a dog.
