ramblings of a nature-ist...

i love fall.

last week, i went back to high school territory for a photography session.

good old little cottonwood canyon.

it's seconds from my parents house.. and really one of the most beautiful places on earth.

i used to drive up there to get away..

sometimes we'd sneak on top of the water tower, 

and other times we'd sneak into snowbirds' heated swimming pools.

my friend megan and i got up early one morning and drove way past the resorts to go 'moose hunting' - being from california, i had never seen a real life moose before.

well we saw one.. in the most beautiful canyon you can imagine.
it was so refreshing to go back. and it reminded me of how much i love nature.

you may have heard about how much i enjoy emerson's essay nature -
well, whenever i read it, i think about this beautiful place.

'to the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.'

that is unless you capture it with a photograph.

i love photography, always have.

but i miss taking pictures of places instead of people... 

some of my most favorite captured places: 

 

  okay, so i got distracted flipping through my romania pictures.. 

so most of those are from when i lived there.. 

and that last one is of a person - a classic eastern euro mullet kid. 

but still.

i need to get out and explore orem city, usa more

find beautiful places.

and capture it so i can remember the beauty forever,

and appreciate the world around me and the One who created it.

and so begins project orem city.