Over this summer I was involved in a lot of adventure. Most of it was related to our Nordic Summer training program. I also worked a job this summer, almost every night for two months. In this post I am going to sum up the state of adventure I experienced this summer with some photos I captured.
My summer started the moment my last final ended. In less than an hour I was already at Boreal shooting some photos of Isaac getting his summer shred on. The snow there lasted about 3 weeks following that day.
Right off the bat I started my summer training and working. I worked extremely hard at each of these for the whole first month of my summer. I was able to get out on the Fourth of July and shoot some fireworks.
In the middle of July my family got to travel up to Idaho for a river trip. We were on the Main Salmon river for 6 days with a group of 17 people.
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| Hot Springs |
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| A Starscape with a headlamp trail |
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| Reflection on the glassy, calm river |
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| Enjoying the views and hor d'ourves |
On this trip, I captured a lot of long exposure motion shots of many side creeks we passed. I had just picked up a new wide angle 17-40mm lens so these shots were super fun to play around with.
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This photo was a fun one to capture with all the spider webs but it was
a difficult climb to the pool. |
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| The Crew |
After being on the Main Salmon river we spent a couple nights at Jeff and Sally's house (a couple who were on our Salmon trip). They live at Payette Lake in Idaho. From there we did a couple of day trips on the North fork of the Payette. It was some super fun water to paddle!
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| Ron's raft in a mellow section of the North Fork |
After a few days in Idaho we returned home. Our whole trip lasted right around two weeks.
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| Sunset over Martis Valley |
That weekend upon return was the Donner Lake Triathlon. I got a couple photos of some friends of mine who competed!
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Kara LaPoint (Olympic winner) on her
run leg |
After our vacation in Idaho, I returned back to my regular schedule of training and work. One night at work everyone was talking about that night being a big one for Meteor Showers. I ended up convincing my mother to let me go up to Donner Summit with a co-worker of mine to shoot some Starscapes. I was not successful with capturing any Meteors but did have fun shooting the Milky Way! We shot the sky from 11PM to about 2AM
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| Milky Way over Rainbow Bridge |
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| 22 Minure Exposure |
In the middle of August, right before school started up again, I went down to the coast in the Redwoods of Klamath, California for a summer training camp. We spent 5 days rollerskiing, running, bounding, and surfing. I worked super hard during the training sessions at this camp, so I do not have photos of training but I did get some other shots!
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| Sign Says it all |
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| Riding them 'til dark |
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| Camp Crew |
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| And can't forget our #summitsunday shot! |
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| The ending to summer. |
The Summer of Adventure 2013!
