Thanks to all of the wonderful couples who allowed me to share their special day with them. Also thanks to the great vendors whom I had the privilege to work with. Wow, what a great year! And next year is gearing up to be even better (hard to believe!). Have a spectacular and relaxing Holiday with friends, family and loved ones.
Some Holiday image cheer from the Muir Woods National Park.
In November we drove down to LA to see the premier of a documentary Tucker worked on. It was a great success and in case you want to watch a feel good documentary about how children around the world are trying to make their communities a better place check out: The World We Want.
On the way back we decided to do a multi-day back-country hiking trip in Sequoia Natl. Park. What a crazy excursion that turned out to be. We had it all: sun, rain, snow, two bears, one massive stag, s'mores (thats right - we schlepped s'mores into the wilderness), incredibly thick fog, not another person or man-made anything for miles and just an amazingly good time.
Tucker is most likely concocting some mischievous plan on how to scare me in the middle of the night, while trying to look innocent. I'm on to you!
Thanks Tucker for taking a picture of me in my favorite toasty winter hat!
Life is good when this is what greets you in the morning!
Tucker showing off his super human strength! I swear he was fixing the bridge...
Those smores tasted like a 5 star restaurant dessert. It was so cold at this point we were basically sitting in the fire! After building up some small flames for 4 hours since all the wood was soaking wet, the gooey chocolate marshmallow goodness was just divine!
So it seems I get asked a lot what I schlepp along on these back country backpacking trips. Lately my favorite ensemble is my trusty 5D, 24mm 1.4, and 50mm 1.2. When I feel really ambitious I might shoulder my 70-200 (I wish I had on this trip - the bears where to far away to get with the 50mm - go figure.)
Tucker and I love the outdoors. More than our computers, which is hard to believe considering how much time we spend in front of them. We were so excited to go camping at Pinnacles National Park a while back. We love to think we are outdoor adventurers but really when it comes down to it - we are at best slightly adventurous weekend warriors. Case in point - after we built our tent (no rain tarp so we could see the stars), and had a yummy dinner, we crawled into our sleeping bags for a good night's sleep. Around 1AM we are awoken by extremely loud and excited howling of two coyotes, who I swear were 15 feet from our tent. I know coyotes are small and pretty harmless, but that was just freaky. Not to mention the ground was dry, so every little scuttle from a bird sounded like a 400 pound beast ready to tear into our very thin mesh tent. Needless to say I didn't sleep very much. It still was so nice to get out and play for a bit.
I love these trees - I couldn't stop taking pictures of them much to Tucker's happiness.
I am marrying a nerd!Raaaauuuu!
So this is what I look like after some serious lack of sleep due to coyotes camping outside our tent. Not so sexy.
A cave and a headlamp make Tucker a happy man. And if I can bring a camera along, everybody wins!
I am a closeted blog stalker. I love them. There is such a free flow of ideas, inspiration, and visual yumminess. It beats TV. As a fellow bride to be (its hard to plan your own when you are thinking about everyone else's) one of my top ten blogs for cool ideas and gorgeous imagery is Southern Weddings Blog. I went on the other morning, ready to oogle more photography goodness when I realized I was looking at my own image. They had one of my favorite images of Robyn and Kevan's wedding up in their "love this" corner. That was a good morning! Actually its been a good morning since because its still there every time I check. See - blog stalker...
So not to leave you without any treats here is another image from that whole tree house series of Robyn and Kevan's wedding that was not in the original post.
