Nature: March 2005 Archives

This was shot along British Columbia's Hwy 99, also known as the Sea to Sky Highway. The leads from Vancouver north to Whistler/Blackcomb and onward into the western Canadian mountains, and gives a driver gorgeous views around every bend. I don't know the name of this mountain, unforunately; all I can say is that it was between Whistler and Squamish to the west of the highway.

As with the photo from two days ago, this is a crop of a larger panorama. The full size image covers ~180 degrees and can be seen if you click here.

Wow. My trip to Vancouver was fantastic (if you're curious, read my blog entry) and I'll probably be posting the photos for at least a week, including two or three panoramics.

The photo above is a small crop of a ~270 degree panorama taken just outside the Roundhouse Lodge at the top of the Whistler Mountain gondola. For the much larger, full panorama version (7,300 x 700 pixels), please click here. The mountain at far left of the full-size panorama is Whistler, while the mountain at right with the obvious ski runs is Blackcomb. Whistler Village is in the valley below.

I've been meaning to post this for quite a while but never have gotten to it until now, when the amaryllis has long since ceased blooming. It follows these two photos from January. It was impossible for me to resist the color combination of bright red against my bright blue wall. I'm a sucker for colors.

I'm back from my vacation to Vancouver/Whistler and will be posting some photos from the trip over the next few days.

I'm currently single but I don't let it get me down. This year for Valentine's Day I bought myself flowers. They lasted for a couple lovely weeks. This shot isn't fantastic (the whites are blown out) and you can see that the blooms are starting to wither, but I like it anyway.

This is the last of my Holga shots for the moment. I need to go get some more film -- I didn't buy any when I picked up my shots because I wanted to really sit down and look at how they came out first. For the most part, they came out better than I expected, and now I just want to try more! Especially since I blew through the first two rolls on some fairly boring subjects. I also want to try a color roll and see how that comes out. So we'll see.

This shot was taken right next to the rockets in Rocket Park. The large white wall in the background is part of the temporary structure covering the Saturn V as it's undergoing a much-needed restoration.

Shot from my car window while stopped at a light. This is the final turn in my short (<2 mile) drive home from work. I'm not sure what the black is at the top right -- maybe just a weird Holga quirk? Or actually it may just be my car. I probably shot it as the light was changing to green. ;)

I'm finished with the Scotland photos for now. I have a few more that I'll share one day, as well as photos from other adventures done prior to the existence of this photoblog. But tomorrow, it's back to "current" shots. I know at least one person out there will be very excited to hear that I got my first two rolls of Holga shots back today and will be posting a few this week... :)

Today's shot was taken in the Andes mountains of Peru, near Machu Picchu. The entire area is called the Cordillera Oriental (Oriental mountain range), but there are sub-cordilleras. I wasn't certain which this photo shows, but after a bit of research I am 99% sure that this is the Cordillera Urubamba, as visible from our final campsite at Winaywayna. While on the trail we also saw a lot of the higher Cordillera Vilcabamba (and its most impressive peak, Salcantay).

In black and white, I feel the shot is great for this past week's Photo Friday topic, Ghostly.