What I've been up to...

I've been sooo busy lately. I've been working a lot, and taking pictures a lot...It's been insane. Plus, I've been trying to fit in quality Oliver time...speaking of which, I need to take pictures of him...

So I took 19 month pictures of Stephanie, one of my very first clients. I'm so happy with these pictures. I think they are some of the best I've ever done. Though, I messed up on the white balance (photography lingo)...oh well. Here are some of my favorites...

I also took family pictures for Tracy and her family. I grew up with Tracy, and we were on the same Volleyball and Basketball teams in high school. I also knew her husband before she did! He was roommates with a friend of mine at BYU, and I hung out at their apartment a lot. She has such a cute little boy, named Caleb. She's expecting boy #2 and wanted to get pictures taken before she got too pregnant. I think she's a cute pregnant lady!

Thank goodness for the lady with a pug dog! Caleb thought it was awesome. I'm glad we got some shots with him laughing. He was pretty grumpy, unless he was able to run around!

See! Grumpy!!

Such a cute family! And it was awesome to see Tracy and Jake again! Time flies, man!

Denver...

So on Sunday, Angela and I decided to take a spur of the moment trip to Denver. She wanted to check out a radiology school, and neither of us had to work for a few days. Crazy, yes. Fun, definitely. We stopped by in Glenwood Springs first. I mean really, why wouldn't you? It's beautiful, and it's where Doc Holliday is buried...supposedly...

Driving to Denver...snow, snow, snow. It was kind of freezing...

I kind of have a love affair with big fluffy clouds...

Snow! So, you are going to laugh, but I like this picture mostly because my arm looks skinny in it. What!?

Tunnel! I love all the mountains you get to drive through on I-70...

I think this is a place called Silverplume? Who knows, all the towns have silver in the name. It was pretty, though.

Angela has had a rough few years, she's kind of over it. So she decided she wanted a F You World! Picture. I have made it PG-13 for the viewers...

This was after the picture...

I forgot to take a picture of the Denver skyline, we were right there in downtown. It was pretty cool, but I kept putting it off, and then we were running late and it didn't happen. Oh well. On the way out of Denver we stopped at Buffalo Bill's gravesite. Pretty cool! And kitchy...

Hahahahahahaha!!!!

It was in a really pretty spot, with great views! Then we went to Aspen, it was out of the way, but we were feeling crazy...

This is me playing with my shutter speed trying to catch the droplets in this fountain. I think I succeeded! Yay!

This is where they are holding the Annual Food and Wine Classic. If you watch Top Chef, you know what I'm talking about...

What? I liked the colors, lol.

Aspen is kind of snobby, but it was still cute...

It was fun to take pictures here...I had a professor once who smoked cigars...she was a woman. Awesome. No this was not at BYU...

I really liked the stickers on this gas meter thing. I liked the picture of the whole thing, but some dude's head is in it. Lame.

This was a cool statue by the parking garage...I really liked it...Well, that was it! Fast and furious, but fun...

Greece: Day 12

So here is my last day in Greece. Honestly, it was kind of a bust! We had thought about going to see Poseidon's temple at Cape Sounion, but decided to go to Delphi instead to see the oracle and the temple of Apollo. We were really excited to see it, it seemed like it would be a pretty simple day trip. Wrong. 3 hour bus ride...1 way! So yep, that's about 6 hours in a bus. We saw some beautiful scenery, but seriously, we wasted 6 hours of our last day in Greece on Delphi. I think it was like a 1 hour trip to Cape Sounion. Whatever. I know you are thinking, I'm sure it's not that bad. Wrong! We got there and we were all excited, as we walked up to the entrance we found out that it was free! Yay! Then we found out why. The freaking temple of Apollo and the oracle was closed. Yep, we could see part of Delphi, but not the cool part. It was closed for technical reasons. What's so technical about a pile of rocks? BITTER does not begin to describe how I felt. I actually let it ruin my mood for most of the day. I don't know why. I might have been a bit traveled out at this point. Emotionally exhausted, actually. Well, here are the pictures...

We were so high up, you could see the ocean. It's on the side by Italy, if you want a geographic location. I'm too lazy to look it up.

Here we are walking up to Delphi, the bus stopped in the cutest town. The town before Delphi, was actually a ski town. It was SO cute. We should have stopped there, lol.

I loved the exposed walls. The patterns were really cool.

This is pretty much all we got to see. At the very top you can see the pillars of the temple of Apollo.

It was raining most of the day. Delphi really is a cool place. It's perched on the top of this mountain, and the views are spectacular.

We still had no idea that the cool part was closed...

The building at the top was the treasury.

This is my foot on the old paving stones. I did this in Thailand too at the Khmer temple. I just love the thought that I'm stepping on something that is thousands of years old, that someone who lived so long ago did too...

Close up of the treasury...

This is the closest we got to the temple of Apollo...sad face...

The views!!! The scenery!!

Disappointed? Yes. But still, I'm glad that I got to see this view...

I wasn't glad at the time, though. When we hiked down here, to the temple of Athena, I was pretty bitter. And honestly, I was sulking. Oh well. Who said traveling is easy? I guess in the 1920s (I think, again too lazy to look it up) they tried to rebuild part of the temple. That is why there is patches on it.

This is a view from the temple of Athena. You can see Apollo and the amphitheater that we didn't get to see...

I love ruins...There was also a gymnasium ruin, but I didn't take any pictures. Remember, it was raining...and I was sulking and just didn't feel it. I was stupid, what can I say...

After we got back to Athens, (on a bus ride that I almost hurled on from car-sickness and claustrophobia) we decided to find the Plaka. The other times we had "found the Plaka", it had actually been other market places in Athens, lol. This time we actually found it, lol. We went into just another random store looking for worry beads for all of our friends. We lucked out! This guy, and an older guy in the store were the cutest old men. They taught us how to flip our worry beads, gave us free worry beads and wanted to give us homemade wine. We had to say no, since you know, the whole Mormon thing. The older guy was such the typical Greek grandpa. Barely spoke English, but gave me a hug. It was a really good way to end the night. They were awesome.

Alix and Liman...

So another engagement, I know I need to post something new...I'm getting to it. Actually, I'm just too lazy to go find my external hard drive and plug it in and hook it up, and edit my last day of Greece pictures. You all are just going to have to wait. Plus, I still am editing out the sunburn's on my USVI pics. I took these last week at Liberty Park, and it was a lot of fun. I'm so happy that Alix is so happy. I used to work at Barnes with her, before she moved on to bigger and better paying things, lol.

I really love how sparkly the trees look in this one. They also remind me of this French painting I saw once.

I LOVE lens flare. Just so you know.

I love taking pictures...