Photography Articles

Photo Challenge: Prolific

Here's what rush hour in Evergreen, CO can look like.  As is fitting, this prolific elk herd is making its way over the road towards Elk Meadow Open Space.  Elk Meadow is one of several terrific open space trail systems that can be found in Evergreen, CO....

Favorite Place: Family Cabin

In thinking about the Favorite Place challenge, I thought immediately about this humble little place in the Rockies.  The roots that bind me to this little old miner's cabin near Boulder, CO run very deep.   My father's family has been in the Boulder area since the...

My Life Bus is Out of the Ditch and Rolling Again

Well hello world!  Somewhere along the way, a few years ago which I can hardly believe, my Life Bus careened off the road and into the ditch where it has unfortunately stayed, growing weeds around it all the while.  Somehow I allowed myself to lose sight, and control,...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

This photo was taken at my German grandmother's 90th birthday in Heidelberg, Germany.  There are four different generations represented in this photo.  Even though all of these family members live in Germany, I have had the fortune of getting to spend a significant...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color (2)

As I was scrolling through my photos, I came to one that made me smile and brought a tear to my eye all at the same time.  It is amazing how many fond childhood memories this one photo can invoke for me.  For my color challenge, I am sharing with you all a photo of my...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward

I like these photos for the Forward challenge because they show the view from the cockpit .... one literally and the others more figuratively.  The actual cockpit photo was taken near Juneau, Alaska.  We flew Ward Air out of Juneau and...

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Weekly Photo Challenge:  Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home

3 years ago over Christmas the Life Bus took an amazing journey to Tanzania.  Pam, Greg, Emily, Todd, and I climbed Kilimanjaro, experienced the wildebeest migration along with numerous other spectacular animals on safari in the...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

So I don't seem to have a terribly large amount of pictures demonstrating the concept of illumination.  The ones I do have, however, I think really portray illumination beautifully!!  Let me know what you all think!  The first one is from a sunset picnic dinner Todd...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate (2)

Here are a couple of photos which capture the concept of delicate for me!!  Hope you enjoy them. The first one is from the glaciers of Kilimanjaro.  I think of these as delicate because their future appears to be very precarious and it is believed that they will be...

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Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

Pam and I feel blessed that our little endeavor called The Life Bus has gotten some great people to climb aboard and along the way nominate us for our second award, the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award.  This generous award nomination comes to us from the Les...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

I am thankful for my brown dog who reminds me of the simple pleasures in life:  the pure joy of a powder day, the feeling of happiness a road trip brings, and that we always need to take time to smell the columbines.  Here's to my BFF and constant companion on almost...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal

I had so many different photos for this challenge in mind.  In the end, I think the photo I am posting is the image and concept that sticks most with me ... the renewal of life.  I love this photo for the pure innocence of the baby's face and for the beauty of the...

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