the post vacation staycation

Our trip to Yellowstone was cut short due to a wild fire & some road construction, so we ended up heading home early. The early arrival though, gave us a chance to recharge during the week & head out to the hills on the weekend!

Where would you go after spending a week in Wyoming? Mt. Ranier, of course! The next three photos were taken in the Paradise area of Ranier, along the Skyline Trail. We made it up to the Glacier lookout before the bitter cold got the best of us.

For these frames, I concentrated mostly on composition and messing around with different settings. The top two pics are unedited; jpegs straight from my lovely D80. While I LOVE looking at other people's landscapes, they are definitely not my strong point. I like these, though :)

We contintued our trek through National Parks and found ourselves in the Olympic National Park the next weekend. The plan was to spend the weekend there to get sunrise shots, but the weather ended up being kinda crummy, so we just went for the day. It was very cool; I have visit the rain forest part of the Olympics before, but haven't been up to Hurrican Ridge. It has been on my list for-ev-er.

I didn't have a specific idea of what I wanted to shoot here, or anything in particular to work on. lol... I was still in vacation "whatev" mode ;)

Thanks for checking out this round of pics, too! Peace be with you, Lori