my brother and his (now) fiancee visited me in september. they stayed for a weekend; she went back to austin on saturday night.
i only do boulder things when i have visitors, so we did many boulder things. we went to boulder falls, for instance. true to form, my best photo from the outing was taken in the parking lot.
on sunday, nick and i went for a hike in the indian peaks wilderness. i had never gone very far into the blue lakes basin before, so we decided to head up to the highest blue lake. there were ptarmigans there.
about a year and a half ago, a few people (like pj accetturo and brent hodge) pressured me into taking more panoramas. i had started to realize that there were a lot of good reasons to take panoramas besides just to end up with a photo that was shaped funny (cropping can do that just as well, after all). i started taking more multi-shot photos with a telephoto lens in contexts i never would have thought to before--even taking a few at cody and laura piersall's wedding. during this time, i started noticing that one of my facebook friends who is a very accomplished photographer (sam hurd) was often posting things about 'the brenziner method'. this method, popularized by wedding photographer ryan brenziner, was very much in the spirit of what i had started doing--just moreso. looking at his work has inspired me to think bigger; most of the following photos (and the first photo in the post) were my first attempts at large-scale multi-photo portraits.
but there was a little hill a little above the last lake. if we just went there, we'd have a much better view of paiute peak. so we did. and we kept finding better views all the way to the top of paiute peak.
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