The week before memorial day weekend is a big week of events in our house. May 21st is my birthday, and the 24th is our anniversary. So we booked off a couple days and went home to Salmon Arm to celebrate those two events with our families. The drive to Salmon Arm takes us through Hope, BC, which is one of my favorite places to drive through. The views never disappoint me. Now in the spring the mountainsides are striped with waterfalls.
So this is me as a fresh faced 28 year old on my birthday. I look a little sour actually. I wonder of the years are catching up to me. Heck nah! I'm still in my twenties, life is good! I'm still within the age bracket of people who win Nobel prizes and stuff like that. Not that I'm aiming for a Nobel. I'm older then Spielberg was when he made Jaws. That bothers me sometimes. But I'm younger then Da Vinci was when he painted the last supper, so there's still hope I can influence the art world in some way.
Had to photograph the clematis blossom's just opening in time for us leaving home for the weekend.
So we arrived home to Salmon Arm where my Dad gave me this for my birthday...
If it looks familiar, it's because we've blogged it before. It's Salmon arm from above. Dad took me on a great plane ride as a birthday present. It was fun since my Dad and I are both into photography. I borrowed his lens and we aimed at shooting a few key locations around town, including some of the flooding around the salmon river.
Unfortunately, all the bending backwards to shoot out the window, combined with looking through the viewfinder as I zoomed in and out, combined with the bumpy weather, caused our flight to last only half an hour before I begged Dad to land. blech! sick! What a wimp I am!
After we left town, Dad took a few of the photos we took to the local paper who bought them and printed them on the front page the next week! Pretty funny. My first photograph in print! Can't take much of the credit though. It was Dad's lens, Dad's access to the plane, and Dad's idea.
For our anniversary (five years now!) we stayed at the Prestige Inn on the water in town. Ruth's Dad, Eric won a free night at the prestige and gave it to us as a gift. Thanks Dad! It was great!
This is the Prestige and the wharf from the sky...
And our view from the room...
And my 300mm's view from the room...
I'm pretty sure she' sitting on some eggs there.
Here are some evening pictures from our walk down the wharf.
I've also been playing with Eric's 580ex speedlite for the last week or so. Here's a picture of a bride-to-be as I prepare to shoot her wedding with equipment that I need to learn how to use.
A professional trials, mountain biker rode through town while we were there, and stopped for a show downtown. He did some crazy things on a mountain bike.
I practiced shooting more humming birds...
We visited with family lots, ate some delicious meals, and headed home. Not much else to report.
I feel like I haven't been taking as many photos lately. One of these days I need to blog a random day in our week like I used to, instead of trips and vacation. Costa Rica must have thrown me off.
Until then, here's some closing roller skating photos from an evening with our community group a few weeks ago.
