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...