Winter Wonderland

While I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time it was not due to a lack of wanting to post, but more of multiple other things. First, and most obvious is the weather. While we have been lucky enough to enjoy one of the nicest winters I am sure this state has had, it is still cold and windy so being outside normally isn’t any less miserable.  I have also been busy, well more busy than normal with work mainly and other activities that I am trying to focus my time on.

So, on to the pictures. I took these two days ago when I went to Lincoln Park with my friend Mitch. The trees had this beautiful frosty snow that was covering all of the branches and there had been a light to moderate fog that was hanging over Grand Forks making it look mysterious and beautiful. By the time we got to the park the sun had decided to start peaking through the clouds and things started melting. I am extremely satisfied with the outcome of the following images and I hope you all are too!

Summer evenings.

I already find myself missing summer, even though fall is by far my favorite season. As October nears it’s end and the weather becomes more and more chilly the impending doom of an icy winter starts to set in.

…So here is a picture of one of those warm summer evenings that we will all be anticipating come January, please, enjoy.

The river side in black and white

I don’t often do much work in black and white, mainly because I forget about it due to the fact that I am just obsessed with color. Black and white is great though because it forces the viewer to focus more on the lighting and textures of a photograph.

All of these pictures were taken a couple of nights ago when a friend and I took a little trip down to the river side before the sunset to enjoy the beauty that fall has to offer. Living in Grand Forks though, we also know that the days are getting numbered before the freezing winter sets in and dooms everyone to the warm indoors in fear of an icy death. Alright a little bit melodramatic, but seriously winter here….. you will die if you are outside too long.  Enough rambling from me, here are the pictures!

Thank for taking a look.

I am leaving for Minneapolis in a few hours and I am super stoked for this mini vacation! My camera battery is charging and I am wiping my memory card as soon as I am done with this post so I will have a lot of new pictures to post after the weekend. : D

Moss Pond

A couple of nights ago I went to a Japanese themed park with a couple of my friends before the sun set. There was a pond there that was pretty much entirely covered in moss. I loved all of the patterns that the moss made with the water and the rocks. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the pond.

I took a lot more pictures at this park that I haven’t even looked at yet.  Thank you for taking a look, I hope you enjoyed them.

University Park at sunset.

This is kind of a hasty post, mainly because I am frustrated with Tumblr for being a crappy site at the moment. While I would prefer updating on here more often it is just very time consuming and takes a lot more effort.  Anyways, here are some pictures that I took a few days ago at University Park in Grand Forks, ND.

I took a lot more pictures that day and will hopefully be adding more of them eventually. Unfortunately it is starting to get cold out, which means I will be taking pictures less and less because I am a pansy and do not like to be outside when it is really cold. Thank you for taking a look, please enjoy your warm weather if you are somewhere other than North Dakota.

Wide Angle

I recently purchased a wide angle lens attachment online, and when I first got it I couldn’t stop using it because it was so much fun! Currently though, an attachment for it is missing so I can’t use it on any of my lenses, which makes me sad. I really do hope that it turns up sooner or later. Until then, here is one of the first pictures I took with it.

I am trying to stay a little bit more consistent with updating, but I haven’t taken any new pictures recently and haven’t felt much motivation to go through all of my old ones. I am proud of myself for the amount of pictures I have taken so far this year. It is a huge accomplishment for me to become so much more proactive about something that I love to do. I appreciate everyone who takes time to look at my pictures, it means a lot.

I woke up today and there was a layer of fog outside. I loved it.

The Forest.

Matt and I recently went on a short camping trip outside of Bemidji Minnesota. I took a lot of pictures while we were there, the ones I am posting today are from the adventure that we took through the forest. I really love exploring and being out in nature, but unfortunately the consequence of that involves thousands of bugs and creepy frogs hopping around all over the place. Still, the hike was worth it, and while I am not totally satisfied with all of my images I am still glad I got that chance to do something like that before summer was gone and the North Dakota winter made me lose hope of ever experiencing warmth again.

Well, here are the pictures. Enjoy. Please comment and leave any sort of feedback, good or bad I don’t mind. Just not hateful.

I really enjoyed the way all of the moss looked through a macro lens. Unfortunately with the low lighting in the forest and the different distances from the lens of the moss it was really hard to capture a good shot where everything you wanted to be in focus was actually in focus. I was still able to get a few that I did like though.

I probably made this one a little bit too warm, but this was sort of a hasty post and editing process. Maybe one day I will post a better version of this picture because I do love it a lot.

So many little mushrooms growing everywhere.

The first trail we came to and didn’t spend very much time on, but the lighting was beautiful.

A close up of a tire that was helping keep a dock floating. We didn’t spend very much time by the lake that we found mainly because both of us were pretty sure that it was someones private property, so sorry but no shots of the lake.

That is everything for today. I have a lot more pictures that I took on the trip that I am still working on. Mainly some that I did when we stopped at an antique shop. I am going to try not to have such a long lapse in time between posts, like recently. I had just lost a lot of motivation for updating and wasn’t very happy with a lot of pictures I had taken upon initially going through them. After some time though they grew on me.

Thank you so much for looking, and have bright sunny day. If you are in North Dakota enjoy this weather while it is here, we all know that soon enough the land will be glazed over to an icy hellscape  inimical to human feeling.

Turtle River

I took all of these pictures a while ago when I went to Turtle River State Park, here in North Dakota, with a couple of friends. I don’t know why they never made it online anywhere, they just sort of got lost in my completely unorganized hard drive. But now they have resurfaced for your viewing pleasure,  so take a look, enjoy, and feel free to comment and leave some feedback.

I wish I would have had a  macro lens on me this day to better capture this little guy. He was very photogenic and at times seemed like he was actually posing for the pictures I took of him, but I mean, he is a caterpillar so who knows.

Thank you for taking a look. If you like what you see or know anyone you think that might, please be sure to let them know about this blog and give them the link. I would be forever grateful.

Oh, and a special thank you to my sister Holly, for putting the link on her personal family blog you are wonderful. 🙂