blurry but good

Holy cow. I filled up a whole CF card... and then some! The bad thing, though, about blogging too soon after the shoot is that I am less picky about the pics I put up. Today was a great day, and so many of the pictures remind me of the beautiful Pacific Northwest scenery that surrounded me all day. The pics may not be the best quality (no, your eyes aren't going blurry... it is the picture) but I like 'em.

For today's adventure, I went with my friend, Cole, to Mt. Rainier. We went there in August for a photography lesson at sunrise, but got turned around a missed the best colors. This morning, we were determined to redo our shots. Mother nature wasn't as cooperative though, and we were greeted with a lovely, but photographically boring sunrise. OH and it was sooo stinkin cold at the lake! d-ang.

The good news is that we were on a beautiful mountain with the whole day to explore. We headed east and made a couple of stops along the way...

Aren't the fall colors amazing? There were so many yellow little maple trees everywhere! It was "enchanting."

Since were in the area, we also stopped by Northwest Trek. I've been wanting to go there FOREVER and it somehow seems to have recently dropped off my other list ;) (big sigh). OH, I almost forgot to mention that today's adventure had a neat twist: we rented lenses! Glazers in Seattle rents out lenses (very cool... i know!) so we had a 70-200mm and a 24-105mm. I think the 24-105 would be a great upgrade from the 18-55 and the 70-200 is amazing! So much fun!

The pics below are from the Nortwest Trek expedition. Some were taken with the 24-105, some with the 70-200. We got there at the end of the day and the lighting was quite challenging, so I used a lot of high ISOs; resulting in some rather noisy shots. oh well, that's why I'm learning, right?

reflection


little falls



on the tram. 3 o'clock.

porcupine portrait. so cute.

A shadow? (nope.)

blurry but cool

awe.

Roosevelt 1

Roosevelt 2

hey look over here

seasons change

As you can see, mr. mangelsen has no need to worry about competition from me. It was fun trying out the different lenses and I found myself just happy that I could get it (mostly) in focus. My admiration for del's wildlife shots just increased a few notches. He makes it look so easy.

As always, thank you for taking a look at my pics and reading all this goofy stuff that goes with it. The critters at Northwest Trek were already celebrating Halloween, so I'll leave you with this last festive pic...