Fire wood

Shot a couple pics while I was cutting up some Black Walnut for firewood this winter  :)

Portrait

Just did a portrait shoot for Tera.... she needed a picture for an interview ;)

Silver Dollar

So on the last night we were in Colorado I dragged Anna up to just under 12,000 ft to go hiking with me :) Haha jk.. She went willingly. We got to the trail head around 9 pm and hiked about an hour up to Silver Dollar Lake and stood up there freezing waiting for the moon to rise :) It was totally worth it though....

We thought the moon would never come up ......






And it finally came.

 
There were TONS of wild flowers up there.... The lighting on the flower was from my phone :) Thats the moon in the background.

SW Colorado

From the wedding we went up north through Ouray on our way to Georgetown. Made me realize how I much I miss living there. :)

Anna and I did a short hike up above Ouray.


 



Just a flower growing out of the rock


 
We tried running part of the way but the altitude slowed us down a bit ... Anna running :)


 
A storm over the Sneffles Range


 
After it cleared. If you ever go to to this area.. be sure to take hwy 62 up onto the Messa.. That's where the views are :)

The wedding

Sorry about all the posts :P I'm trying to get all these pictures posted so I can start posting more current pics and so I can get all the folders off my desktop ;)

 The weekend after we came home from Cali, the whole fam went up to Durango, Co for my brothers wedding. Here are a few candid pics :)

Jesse and Kim at the head table :)



..... And we shot some pool after the reception
Break

 

Fires

Sooo we got home and within a couple days I had something new to shoot :) There was a huge fire a few miles from us! It was sad because it destroyed several houses and caused a lot of damage but it made for cool pics.

Lightning... there was a thunderstorm coming in right behind the fire.

 
The storm kinda blew the fire toward me.


 



The sky at sunset

California

I LOVE water! Its awesome to be in it and its really fun to take pictures of it. We went snorkeling at Shaws cove at Laguna Beach and here are some pics I took of the Ocean. The water was this amazing color and SO clear... It was awesome... a little cold though ;)  If you want to see more of my water pictures go here: http://www.clrangle.com/portfolio/?type=water

Disney Land.... We went and watched the fireworks one night :)



Then the sad truth.... we had to go home. The people there are awesome and everything but we reeeeally didn't want to go home to 105 + ... but we did ... and we're still alive. I've decided that living in Oklahoma just makes other places seem THAT much more awesome and I'm really thankful for all the blessings that were handed to us throughout that 3 week trip :)

Death Valley

This was the unplanned part of our trip. originally we were planning on going right home from Zion but sort of last minute we decided to make a detour to LA via Death Valley. It was definitely worth it :)

 Going from Crater lake (elev 7000ft) where the temp was below freezing to Zion(elev 4000 ft) which was pretty average 70-90 to Death valley(elev -282 ft) where it was 117 deg with wind that was possibly warmer was quite the shock. Even though death valley is completely desolate with hardly anything green or growing in it there was still a type of beauty there. I think I managed to capture it.

This was on our drive into the valley. It was still slightly green



 
 There is obviously a heat problem :)

 
It is still very colorful!

 
And there are people down there.

 
An awesome sunset...

 We were going to camp in death valley until we opened the car door... That changed out mind very quickly. So we drove back up into the mountains, stayed the night and headed for LA in the morning. I have a few ocean pics that I'll be posting next!

Zion

It was about a 10 hr drive to zion where we spent the night :)

The sunset on our drive into the park



The stars were so awesome!



A time lapse of the stars... 697 images. Its really cool at the end when the clouds come in :)



Anna and I hiked up to watch the sunrise... The light trail is a few hikers that came in later :)






An hdr that I put together of the sunrise.









The next day we hiked up into the narrows a little ways.. we weren't able to go far because we didn't have the right shoes or clothes...you kinda have to swim :) I really want to go backpacking in there sometime though :)

 Then off to Death Valley.... talk about an experience...

Climbing (Smith Rock)

Okay! .. here are some climbing pictures! It was supper fun and no one died so that was nice haha jk Noooo, the climbs were pretty easy so it wasn't really that dangerous.... Enjoy!

Getting our gear ready and trying to decide what to climb.... I think I took this picture but I'm not sure... it may have been Anna :)

 
Thats me leading the first climb (5.8/5.9 sport for those who know what that means) ;) Pic by Anna


 
Belaying Josh (I think this one was a 5.10 b+ or something like that.. don't remember) Pic by Anna

 
He was a pretty good climber :)


 So that pretty much wraps up Oregon.... we had a great time but sadly .... it all had to end :( We dropped Will and Merrie off at the airport, stayed a night with the Z's, headed to Boise and stayed a couple days with the Roberts and pretty much just chilled. I didn't take any pictures there so the next post will be Zion.......

Crater Lake

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Crater late was awesome! ....I almost didn't post pictures of it because I know I didn't really capture it... But.... I did so take these pictures and multiply by 10 and you might have the awesomeness of it .... God is SO good! :)

This was our view on the drive in.... after a day of too much awesomeness for one day this kinda just pushed it over the top.


The first view of the lake! This was my widest lens... its a big lake :)

Then it got dark.... and we tried to find a campsite.... and failed.... and ended up sleeping(or not) in the 4runner in the lodge parking lot... 4 of us.. kinda tight haha.... So we set our alarms(just incase we were asleep) for about 5am so we could catch the sunrise.


It was worth it .....?jk :)


On our drive back to Bend there was a cloud in the way but we drove through it.... thats kinda how tired we were :P

We made it to Bend and just chilled for the evening, played some vball, and the next morning we went climbing at Smith rock..... I havent decided what climbing pictures I'll be posting but they should be coming soon!

Oregon Coast: Day 2

So the next day we woke to a cold/misty/rainy morning. Cooked breakfast (Chicken Sausage/egg/onions and green pepper) breakfast barritos.... All on a backpacking stove ;) It was amazing! Then we showered, packed up and headed south. :)

Spent a few minutes on the beach :)


Would love to live there.


Lighthouses are amazing :)

Then we found our beach... after driving about 3 miles down a dirt road it opened up onto an awesome beach with almost no one on it! AND it was perfectly sunny for the whole 3-4 hrs we were there :) God was SO good to us :)


The squeaky sand was awesome. I have no idea what causes it :)


We built a castle and then watched the ocean wash it away..... that was fun. :)


Then we built a turtle



Then we headed toward Crater lake.... we kinda wanted to get there in time to set up camp and get some sleep which didn't happen but I'll save that for a later post ;)