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My one and only night in the Grand Tetons was spent photographing star trails; looking back, it was worth the sleep I lost. From my campsite at Signal Mountain it was only a minute-long hike to the edge of Jackson Lake. I was admittedly nervous following the trail through a patch of woods to the lake's edge... it was sooo very dark, and the trail ended about 20 feet above the water, and I heard howling in the distance for quite some time. I know, I know... silly stuff, but it was still enough to give me goosebumps.

I tried three or four different exposure lengths, varying from 15 minutes to, I believe, almost two hours. This was one of the longer ones. In between exposures I crawled back into the tent to try and sleep... each time my alarm went off again, it was a battle to crawl out of the warmth, put my shoes on and stumble back to the edge of the lake where my cold little Nikon FM sat on his tripod. (I was also a bit nervous about leaving my camera and tripod unsupervised for that amount of time, even being only a minute away from it, but I wasn't about to stand beside it for two hours!)

Anyway, yes, the Tetons. Beautiful, beautiful mountains. It was quite worth it in the end. ;-)

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I was told to post tonight, so here you go. I didn't have the energy to edit anything new, so this one of the few that was all ready to go. It was taken on a particularly blustery winter morning underneath that architecturally amazing bridge. I'm off to sit in front of the heater now...

Taken with a Nikon F3.

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~from Story People

It didn't take me long to realize that I can perch a macro filter at the end of my Hasselblad lens. In doing so, I've found yet another door into the secret world of flowers, a place where the colors almost overwhelm me and the littlest details are the most magical.

Taken with a Hasselblad 500 C/M.

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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
~Charles de Lint

I've been going through my Rainier images, and decided that I couldn't wait to post this one. Quiet, moody landscapes speak to the heart of me. The way the stillness wraps around a person, the way the mind calms, the breath slows. I am a quiet person in general, and I think that something about these landscapes resounds with me.

Taken with my Hasselblad 500 C/M at Tipsoo Lake in Mt. Rainier National Park.

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This is a shot from the second outing I had with Jason and Lori. We had much better weather and the dogs (Daisy came too) had a great time romping around in Portland's Kelley Point Park. This is one of my favorite shots from that day, though there will be a handful of others that make their way to my Flickr stream.

Taken with a Hasselblad 500 C/M.

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