Dakota
I recently returned from a vacation to Denver, Co. where I saw Modest Mouse, The Dirty Heads, Matisyahu and Sublime with Rome. It was such a fun trip. The music was absolutely awesome. I got to see a lot of friends and spent some time with my sister and her boyfriend. I didn’t take very many pictures because I hate lugging that big camera around some times; besides it was nice to just hang out for a while. Anyway, we went to a lake near Boulder and did some swimming/slacklining. More photos after the Jay-You-Em-Pee…
Walking toward the lake
I only brought one lens with me for the entire trip, a borrowed Canon 50mm 1.8. It was fun trying a new lens and the 1+1/3 extra stop was absolutely awesome!!! The only downfall is I think the 50mm sucks on a 1.4x crop body camera. I think it would be perfect on a full frame camera; I felt like I was always a little too close with it on my 40d. I only brought this one lens because I was considering ditching zooms since they can not even begin to compare to fixed lenses. I’m still on the fence until I get my hands on a 5d!!! It was kinda neat to get back and see what happened without the ability to zoom. I think my compositions still worked and I found myself cropping very minimally. One last thing about this lens… Limited Depth of Field baby!
Swimming in the Boulder Reservoir
Swimming in the Boulder Reservoir
Judy standing near the edge of the Boulder Reservoir
Tira's dog who's name I have conveniently forgotten at the moment
Tanner
Tira
Walking back to the transportation machines
Crystal trying out the slackline with a little help from Judy
Colorado Grass
Pond near the Boulder Reservoir
I have to say, it’s cheating to be a photographer in Colorado. It’s too easy! This was in the middle of a park in the middle of a town for crying out loud!!! This stuff just doesn’t exist in Southeast New Mexico. Jealous ;(
Power-up!
Yeah, we played a lot of Mario and some drunken Shaq-fu! Good times!
Juli
Dakota
Crystal
Crystal recently returned from the Telluride Bluegrass festival and she turned me on to a lot of really sweet Bluegrass. Of coures Cadillac Sky is awesome, but Mumford & Sons and the Carolina Chocolate Drops are pretty gosh darn good in my book of things that I think are pretty gosh darn good.
Green Lights
Denver
One last thing… I’m heading up to Yellowstone for a photo/climbing adventure. If you for whatever reason live between here and there and would looove to hang out and/or offer me a shower (cause it’s gonna get smelly) I would greatly appreciate it!!!