I know... two blog entries in a row!! Funny how I can seem to get this accomplished but have yet to unpack my second suitcase :) This is going to be rather difficult for most of you to believe but I am not going to ramble on indefinitely prior to posting my photos but instead get right to it. Now keep in mind that doesn't mean that I may not ramble a bit later on in the blog :)))
Before I get to more vacation photos I will keep you in the loop with what has been keeping Rob and I busy. We are still teaching photo workshops as they are continuing to sell out. I believe at this point that we will be taking a break for July and part of August and then starting them up again in the Fall. Robert has also become the official photographer for the Saskatchewan Soccer Association so this is going to keep him running across the province throughout the summer months. I have offered to lend a hand if needed but just now am realizing that would make Rob my boss...hmmmm I may have to rethink this one :) I am now going to change gears and get back to vacation.
I headed up to Mammoth Lakes. California over the Memorial Day long weekend. Rather ironic that the week prior to our arrival the temperature hovered around 35 degrees C the entire week and then I guess that someone must have told Mother Nature that I was coming! To make a long story short the drive from Carlsbad to Mammoth Lakes normally takes in the neighborhood of 6.5 hours... on this day it took almost 10...yep... first it started off with a hail storm that lasted about half an hour thus causing major freeway chaos due to the fact that "it never rains in Southern California" guess that the lyrics did say rain and not snow so what the heck... then due to the vast amount of hail/snow it started to flood... then a tornado touched down about a mile ahead of us flipping over a semi and causing the entire freeway to come to a halt forcing us to detour...yep...not so much fun! Anywho... the first picture below shows the amount of hail that fell and then the second photo indicates the flooding...hard to tell in the photo but the far right lane of the freeway was at least 4 feet deep at this point.
After arriving well after midnight the night before we woke up and went for a nice brisk walk... brisk meaning the temperature was hovering right around zero with a windchill of about -20!! I know...look at me complaining and I'm the one from Saskatchewan. My friends from California ventured out of the vehicle for what amounted to less than 10 minutes :)
A beautiful fall day on top of the waterfall...wait a minute...I meant to say Spring...
Beautiful scenery.
I thought that these guys fishing in their little inner tubes with their legs sticking in the water were off their rockers... mind you, they may have thought the same thing of me come to think of it and I wasn't even doing anything :)
Visiting the hot springs just outside of Mammoth.
This may have been tweaked just a hair in Photoshop. I will be posting the "as shot" version of this in my
image gallery on our website as soon as I get all of my images ready. I love the fact that even though there is a lot going on in the background of the photo the lone tree still manages to pop.
My friend Kristin and I at Convict Lake.
This was WAY too much fun! Kristin and I found a path going down from the mountain to this semi-dried up lakebed. There was actually a sign near the bottom that said speed limit of 10 MPH on lake. We weren't sure if they were talking about the boat or us so... I naturally made the assumption that they had to be talking about the boat :) If you look closely enough in the background that is a guy fishing in a boat behind me...very cool...
Okay... that's it from me for tonight. I think that I should be able to wrap of the rest of my vacation over a few more blogs and then after that we can get back to making fun of Rob which seems to be one of the things that I am best at :) Given that will be around next week I should have plenty of new material by then.
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