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Oregon Coast Photography

I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip last Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here.

Today I wanted to share a few of my photos from the Oregon coastline. We went all the way down it, camping at various state parks.

Oregon’s coast is just breath taking.We actually spotted a few whales around Depoe Bay, but this was the only photo I got of one of them:

We saw lots of other wildlife as well!

I also tried another levitating photo. I used an old driftwood stump, which worked okay. I couldn’t find anything to get me higher up off the ground as it was sort of a spur of the moment idea.

Have you been along the Oregon Coast? What’s your favorite place?

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Olympic National Park Photography

Today I wanted to share a few of my photos from our stay in Olympic National Park, which is in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.

We camped here for a little while, seeing the sights like the Hoh Rainforest and then we stumbled into Twilight town (Forks, WA.), I haven’t read the books, but I had heard that they were set here. I wasn’t all that impressed by the “Beware Vampire” signs…

The photos below were taken in the Hoh Rainforest, which is amazing!

So much green and then just a short drive away you have either the mountains or the ocean!

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Mount St Helens Photography

One of my favorite national parks that we visited (Not that I could actually choose a favorite. There were way too many!) was Mount St Helens. Now, I loved Mount Rainier as well, but there was something about seeing the destruction that Helens left that had me in awe.

Have you been? If you get the chance to visit Mount St Helens, take it!

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Glacier National Park Photography

I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip this Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here.

Today I am sharing photos from our day in Glacier National Park in Montana. We only had one day here, but it was AMAZING. Like, This was one of my favorite days from our trip.

We hiked up to Avalanche Lake, which was about a 4 mile round trip hike, not bad but it was all uphill on the way out- very much worth it though. 🙂

The majority of the hike went up along Avalanche Creek, which was just gorgeous, with it’s glacier blue water, cutting through the purple-y rocks.

If you’re ever in the area and want a good hike with an even better view- Go hike to Avalanche Lake!

I just finished making a mini album using these photos, so I’ll share that within the next week or two.

Have you been the Glacier National Park?

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Magical Books Photoshoot

Lately I’ve been sharing a lot of photos from our Summer road trip, but I wanted to take a quick break from those to share with you a mini photoshoot I did a couple of weeks ago.

I had the whole weekend to myself, so I took my camera, remote and tripod down to the river and snapped a few self portraits. I wanted these to have a fantasy feel to them, because I think books are pretty magical.

And what is magic without a bit of levitation? I discovered levitation photography back in the Spring and think it’s really fun. It makes people look twice, haha.

Are you wondering if I can really levitate? Ha. Well, I wish I could. Here is a great post by PetaPixel that has a good explanation of how levitation photos are done.

Basically, my magic weapon is a stool and a teeny bit of photoshop. But don’t tell anyone!

What super power would you want? I think flying would be pretty fabulous. But so would invisibility.

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Yellowstone National Park Photography

Hey guys! I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip this Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here.

One of the super cool places we stopped at along the way was Yellowstone National Park. Let me tell you- if you haven’t been there, you should go! It definitely lives up to it’s reputation of being awesome.

Let’s start this post with Old Faithful: We got up early and watched like the 7am-ish eruption of Old Faithful, so even though it was a Saturday in June, there was hardly a crowd at all! Yay!

I love these pictures. We were driving through the park and saw the most adorable BABY FOXES! Yes – baby foxes. Just stare at these pictures and enjoy.

They were so playful and cute.

There were also a lot of elk, including a baby elk! I love baby animals so much.

The scenery of Yellowstone was just breathtaking, especially considering the rest of Wyoming.

Have you been to Yellowstone National Park, or is it on your bucket list?

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Colorado Photography Part 4

Photos, photos, photos. I thought I was just getting ready to move on to another state from our trip to share more photos with you, but then I realized I still have plenty of Colorado photos. Colorado is just way too photogenic.

In my last photo post I shared some astrophotography from Colorado, and today I’m sharing photos from the Rocky Mountains National Park. Which is just gorgeous if you’ve never been there. You need to plan a trip.

Colorado Photography by Katie Smith www.punkprojects.com

I was SO excited to see not only one moose, but a baby moose as well!

That’s an elk stampede, btw. Amazing, right?

Alright, I *think* I am finally, maybe, done with sharing my favorite Colorado pictures! Next stop- Grand Tetons and Yellowstone!

Which one is your favorite picture today?

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Colorado Astrophotography

Here are some more photos from my trip to Colorado early this Summer! This time, my attempts at astrophotography, taking photos of the stars.

This is only about my 5th time doing astrophotography, so I’m definitely still learning! I haven’t mastered focusing in the dark yet.

Southern Colorado has one of most amazing night skies I’ve ever seen! Where I was staying was about 30 minutes away from the closest town, and even that town was tiny. So there was no light pollution.

The milky way makes me feel so small.

The next photos are all from the Rocky Mountains national park in northern Colorado. They have amazing skies too (and gorgeous mountains)!

It’s only slightly scary, being out at 2 am by yourself in the middle of nowhere when you know there are bears out there too. 😉

But seriously, when this is the view from my tent, how am I supposed to NOT get up?

Tent Selfie. 😉

Are you amazed by the stars too? You can see more of my photography here.

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Colorado Photography part 2

I took SO many photos while I was in Colorado for a month. Like hundreds. I am just sharing a select few with you here, the ones I love the best, so that I don’t totally overwhelm you with a gazillion photos of mountains.

I took a few hikes by myself early in the morning so that I could watch the sunrise from up on top of the rock dikes. It’s pretty magical.

I also took a couple of selfies of myself and the landscape. Normally I would feel really weird posing like this, but considering I was the only person out on the mountain, I could be weird without anyone knowing. 😉

We took a trip out to the Great Sand Dunes national park in Alamosa which was really cool. If you’re ever out that way then you must stop for a visit!

My aunt and Uncle have a couple of hives of honeybees. I had to take some photos of them, of course!

There are just so many wonderful opportunities for good photos in Colorado. Beautiful scenery and so much amazing wildlife.

and lastly, Colorado has the brightest rainbows I have EVER seen.

There you have it, part 2 of my favorite photos of the hundreds I took. I guess you know you’re a photographer when….. When it’s so hard to choose one out of a hundred photos to share.
Consider yourself lucky there are only 13 photos in this post.

Next week I plan to share some of my astrophotography attempts!

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Colorado Photography part 1

As you may know, I spent the Summer traveling. For the first month of the Summer I was visiting family in southern Colorado- which is gorgeous!! There are so many wonderful photography opportunities there and so I took advantage of them!

I took a ton of photos, so here are just a few of them, I’ll be doing multiple photo posts in the next month.

The Spanish Peaks region of Colorado is world famous for its dikes, what you see in the photograph below. They were formed by magma and just stick up like walls, which is pretty cool.