Well, now that we’ve been back from Utah for over a month, I figure it’s time to start posting some images… it was a great trip, and we left right before a huge winter storm rolled through, so the timing was perfect! These pictures are both from a place called the Devil’s Garden east of Escalante, Ut out Hole-in-the-Rock Road about 13 miles. I’d been there with Dad Mullins, but thought it was cool enough to go back Lex… even over 13 miles of gravel/dirt road.

As I’m coding, I have been slowly working through the images I took in Utah over Spring break. I saw this one this evening, and was inspired to post it. It’s a shot taken in Zion (as we were leaving actually) just as a storm was rolling in. So the sun was breaking through the clouds… then we drove into the Zion Tunnel… so this was pretty much our last view of The Virgin River Canyon. Not a bad one though.

Well, because I have so much time on my hands, I’ve decided to get into a new, time-consuming area of photography… timelapse photography. Here is a “video” taken from our balcony in UCSD On-campus housing. Enjoy!

So, I got an intervalometer (like a timer for my camera) for Christmas, so hopefully I’ll figure out to take some cool time lapse sequences. Here an early attempt of a cross country skiing outing in Idaho near Driggs.

Well, it seems as though my time is quite limited these days… not limited so much as spent on school and research. While this is probably good, it has limited the time I have to spend on editing photographs. Nonetheless, since January, I have gotten through a few images… here are a couple of more from the Idaho trip we took with the Griebels during the last week of Christmas break… soon to come (I hope) will be images from our spring break trip to South Western Utah!

We stopped at the famous Green River Overlook to try and recreate the Ansel Adams photo, but the clouds never quite revealed the peaks of the Tetons… this didn’t keep us from having a good time though… Thanks Matt!

Probably the best (mountain) image I got at the Green River Overlook

Matt Griebel riding at Grand Targhee Resort. We had (I thought) pretty good snow, and very few crowds!

Lexie… shredding the gnar!

Moon setting over the ridge at Grand Targhee.

Thanks to the Griebels for a fantastic trip!

Well, I have been sneaking in photo editing for weeks while my code runs, so now I have a big dump of landscape images from Wyoming and Idaho in early January! I hope you enjoy them, as Lexie and I are heading out to Utah next week for spring break, and that trip promises to produce another huge stash of photographs. I can’t wait!

Loading up into the rental car in Sacramento!

Mtns north of Wells, NV

Windmills and Hills of S. Idaho

Trees behind the rental house!

Emerison's (Griebel family friend) neighbors at dawn

Big Horn in the Jackson Elk Preserve

Coming down into Jackson Hole, early morning

Dusk... taken from the back window of the driving car

Grand Teton, a touch before sunset

Waterfall just inside the south entrance to Yellowstone

Mt. Moran in the evening clouds

Here is an image I snapped on the east side of the Tetons. I’m testing a new way to get photos online and on the blog… hopefully it’ll be faster and allow me to put up more posts! As it’s been more than a month since my last post, this is clearly needed.

Since grad school takes up all my time, I haven’t even looked at all the pictures I took over break. Nonetheless, I did look at this picture, which is a panorama (and HDR) I took as the sun rose onto the Tetons on our drive up to Yellowstone. Definitely one of the most beautiful mornings I can ever remember experiencing.

We had a great holiday season starting in the Bay Area, then in Sonora, and ending in Idaho and Wyoming! There will be many more pictures to come, but just to get started here is a picture of the Griebel clan getting ready to go cross-country skiing in Teton Canyon outside Driggs, ID…

As a side note, guess which kids are the in-laws.

Lexie ran a the Athleta Iron Girl 10-K race this morning, and finished in a time of 56:49, shattering her goal of 62 minutes, and posting an awesome 9:10/mile pace. WhooHooo!