A few plastic landscapes

Yes, more Holga photos for the western road trip. I may need to edit better, but I am going to assume there is infinite space on the web for my photos. These are in no particular order...

The Badlands

The Range

Eastern Washington , near the Columbia River Valley

Mountains near Leavenworth, Washington

Pine trees in Montana

Orcas Island, Washington

Scrubby land, I think this is in the Columbia River Valley

A mountain. 

Hill country

Hopefully I will get the rest scanned sometime this week.

Since I have been feeling slightly saturated with landscape and nature photos, I was thinking about doing this challenge on Holgablog.com. It is a self portrait project. I am not a fan of self portraits, that is part of the reason I prefer to be behind the camera. I haven't taken self portraits since college and it was really painful - like awkwardly self conscious and self aware. I was so trying too hard. Ah, the life of an art student... Perhaps it would be good to revisit the idea and see what I come up with. I should be up for a challenge... If anyone has seen any intriguing/cool/emotional/ self portraits online, send them my way. I would love to see some photos!

Washington State Photos

Once again.... more photos from the "Western Road Trip". At some point I will be done with them.... I don't mind though, I haven't shot much here that has been exciting. I will have a lot of Holga pics too, I shot about 8 rolls, except 2 may have gotten a bit exposed.  I should go on road trips all the time!

Skagit River in the North Cascades National Park.

A pile of rocks that were on the shore of the Skagit River. The river is a spawning place for salmon. It was really really clear and cold.

Flowers in our campsite on the Skagit River.

Liberty Bell, a mountain in the North Cascades. We were going to hike around here, but the snow was still over my car. I think they just opened the road and the pass the week before. We should have brought our snowshoes!

Dan pointing which rapids he could run and where he would die on the Class IV and V rapids on the Icicle River near Leavenworth.

The Icicle River

A hike near Leavenworth to an alpine lake. It started out really nice, but the further up the mountain we got, the more snow there was. At one point, we were falling through the soft patches of snow up to our waists! The temperature was really warm still, so we were comfortable in our shorts.

Beers at Uncle Uli's in Leavenworth after the hike.

These photos are all while we drove to Spokane on Highway 2 through eastern Washington. The light with the clods  was superb, so I kind of went crazy and took a ton of photos.