Fall Colors in Upstate New York

Flower with fall colors in upstate NY.Here are some high resolution nature photographs of fall colors from our backyard upstate, near Cooperstown, NY. These last few weekends are always busy ones at my brother-and-sister-in-law's restaurant, The Rose and Kettle, as the "leafers" are up in force to see the beautiful autumn colors, and that surprise bit of snow the other morning!

I have some more pictures to upload to this gallery, so be sure to come back in a few days (we recommend subscribing to our feed) to see if I can get around the technical problems with uploading.

Kauai Hawaii Pictures

The Hale Kilo I'a (House Where You Watch Fish) is a Kauai Hawaii beach house vacation rentalAs an internet marketer who helps my clients get higher search engine rankings, I manage to attract some pretty cool clients. One of them is the daughter of Academy Award Winning art director Tambi Larsen (see this earlier post for his art). She rents their former home on Kauai as a Hawaii beach house vacation rental.

Obviously, I'd prefer to go to Kauai, stay in the house, and take awesome pictures of the island myself. But these are trying times for us, so, I kept bugging Pamela to do it, and now she has! And, wow... seriously... Here's the gallery of her pictures of Kauai. Amazing.

While it's probably hard to take bad shots of a place like Kauai, I'm sure it's done all the time. Crappy camera, people too lazy to get out of the car, greasy fingerprints on the lens... All kinds of things can go wrong when you're trying to take pictures of some of the most beautiful scenery you've ever seen.

And then there are the times when you get it right. Pamela has probably taken hundreds of pictures of the ironwood tree that is in the yard, right next to the beach, just steps from the house. But it wasn't until she walked out there with her new camera, in just the right light, and took this picture that it all came together in a kind of perfection that, well... just look.

An Ironwood Tree between the beach and the yard of the Hale Kilo I'a Kauai Hawaii beach house vacation rental.

Click on through to the Kauai Hawaii picture gallery, or go to the Hawaii beach accommodations website, where you can download the full-size high resolution pictures of Kauai.

Landscape Photography of Bear Mountain Wyoming: More High Resolution Nature Photos

Bear Mountain Wyoming

After getting gas in Park City Utah, where we marveled at the size of the Olympic Ski Jump ramp (terrifying, really), it was too dark for any more pictures, we took some anyway, as you can see in the last post about Nevada and Utah. We spent the night in Rock Springs Wyoming, where we'd love to go back and explore some day, since the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is there.

We were headed for Mount Rushmore, so we turned north out of Rawlins, WY, up US 287. Out to our right was Bear Mountain, actually a range of mountains that stuck up out of the high plains with the kind of majesty that one expects from eastern Wyoming. We certainly understood the term "big sky country" which is, of course, a Montana term, but applied to the high plains of Wyoming very well. These high resolution nature pictures of Wyoming were taken by Robin, the master of hurry-up-and-take-that-picture-and-roll-up-that-window photography.

Our next stop? Mount Rushmore and the first snowfall of our trip!

Through Nevada and Utah: More High Resolution Nature Photos

Near Winnemucca, NevadaAfter sailing through Reno, we stayed in the worst motel ever (epic fail), and then hauled ass across Nevada and Utah, then into Wyoming. During the daylight we saw some beautiful scenery, from the high desert of northern Nevada, to the Bonneville Salt Flats (which reminded me of one of my favorite movies, The World's Fastest Indian), through Salt Lake City, and into SW Wyoming. The variety of scenery within one day was absolutely amazing.

Looking back on these pictures now, I'm really glad we took the northern route. We got to see some great scenery that we'd never seen before, and these high resolution nature pictures turned out great, even though we rarely stopped to take them! Robin is an absolute wizard when it comes to getting great shots out of a fast moving car, and having the window open in northern Nevada in early April is a great way to get me to slow down!

First Shots from our Cross-Country Move: Yosemite National Park Nature Photos

Back in April we moved cross-country from Los Angeles to upstate New York. We took the scenic route and took some terrific photographs along the way. Today, I posted the first pictures from our trip, taken in Yosemite National Park. These high definition nature photos were are all taken in Yosemite Valley, as the backcountry was still closed in April.

It was a perfect day, and with the now globally warmed early snow melt, the waterfalls were going off big time! These pictures will make terrific computer backgrounds of Yosemite! They were taken with our new Canon Rebel XTI, at very high resolution. They've been posted here at a somewhat lower resolution (for space and bandwidth reasons). If you'd like the high-resolution version, just let me know.