Stragglers

Just a few more pictures from our Breckenridge trip. These hiking trails were so nice, and were accessible via a short walk from our condo.

Base of Eight

In Breckenridge you can take their gondola from the base up to the base of lift 8, which will get you up to the skiing. In the summer the base of 8 is a small amusement park. There is a roller coaster type thing, climbing wall, giant maze, and a variety of other kids activities to separate you from your money. We went up to have a look around and ended up just hanging out up there all afternoon.

UP (in black and white)

I've been doing some experimenting with my new cameras black and white features, and I really like the results. Continuing my minor obsession with varieties on the views from the last post, only in black and white. There is something about shooting the scene in black and white, rather than converting it in Photoshop that appeals to me; it's more of a film experience because there's no going back. Expect more black and whites to come!

UP (in color)

Looking through my photos from Colorado, it looks like I got a little obsessed with looking up through the trees. Not that there is anything wrong with that; I thought it was a cool view. Not having woods like these in Kansas City, it was novel to me. I thought I'd collect them all here for you to enjoy.

Following

I'm sure many of my photographer friends can relate to this hike. My girlfriend, Marcella, hiking... me, constantly trailing behind. Somehow I never managed to completely lose her, and even managed to catch her in the distance. Eventually I caught her when we turned around; only to lose her again on the hike back down.









BTW.. the third one is my favorite. Probably one of my favorites in a while.

Lake Washington

We made a couple stops on our Birthday tour of Lake Washington. The first was this little beach in Madison Park where we hung out for a while, doing some people watching and catching a few really painful looking belly flops from the diving board on a floating dock. Our second stop was down the road a ways, at a dock near Leschi(?). There were a surprisingly few boats at the dock for a beautiful day in July.

Newspapers

This is something we don't really "do" in Kansas City; at least not that I've found recently. We have some free periodicals in town, but they're usually in stands within restaurants or stores, rather than in cool metal newspaper boxes outside. I find these pretty good little structures to photograph. From Seattle and Oakland, respectively.