I had SO much fun last weekend! Ryan and I traveled all over Southern Utah in the several days that we were there. We made it to St. George and Zion one day, then out to Lake Powell for a day, and the last day we headed to Bryce Canyon. It's sad that I grew up around those areas and haven't seen some of them in YEARS.
One of my over all favorite things from that trip was when we stopped at Ponderosa Point in Bryce Canyon. We pulled into the pull off and there were these two HUGE ravens perched on the sign. As soon as we got out of the car they both jumped off the sign and made their way over to us. I figured they were probably looking for a snack, so I got some chips out and broke them up a bit and to my surprise when I threw them the chips they caught them and ate them right up!!! So, I kneeled down and they ate right out of my hands!! It was crazy! But really really fun :) Of course I had to snap a picture to remember these guys by....

This was yet another early morning outing with my mom and our cameras. We got up early one morning in the fall and went up to my Great Grandma Addie's and wander around her place. We found this old rusted up bike leaning against the tree. Of course you know me....I just love the old rusted stuff. I loved how the blue and the rust looked with each other. After we made our way around her backyard looking through different things, we went out to the apple orchard where someone had left the sprinklers on the field over night. The result of that was ice everywhere in the trees, hanging from the branches, and covering the wheel lines of the sprinklers and the grass around them.

I found this one little leaf left on one of the apple trees that had been frozen in place by the sprinklers. I just love how you can see the casing of ice that surrounds the leaf. I like how the depth of field turned out with the background out of focus so that the leaf stays the focal point of the photo.

All and all it was another good but COLD morning out with my camera.

Christmas Morning

I realize this post is a bit odd placed, being that it is March and all... However, I came across these photos today while I was cleaning out a few things from my photo files, and just remembered how much I loved this Christmas morning! Morgan with her crazy bedhead hair, and Andy in his Bob the Builder outfit...infact he wouldn't even answer to Andy while he was wearing it. He would just turn and say, "I'm not Andy, I'm Bob the builder!"
It just made for a really really fun morning. Christmas isn't all about what we find under the tree on Christmas morning, but you do have to admit that having kids around always make Christmas more fun :)

Merlin Olsen Park

I took this photo about two years ago, and it still remains one of my favorite photos. I just love the simplicity of it, and also I LOVE black and white photos. I think sometimes with black and white it makes the focus of the photo stay on the subject, because it takes away what might be a distraction of color. Don't get me wrong, I love bright vibrant colors as well...but there is still just something about the solitude that you can get from a black and white photo. It almost makes it timeless...