2011
Sunday, December 18th, 2011Welcome to our seventh annual digital Year in Pictures greeting card! Jeremy and I moved the card from a static web page to the more interactive blog format this year, so feel free to leave a comment at the bottom.
This year has been one of personal and professional growth, the setting and pushing of boundaries, collaborations with exceptional people, loss, reflection, simplification. We make the best of each day. Looking back, it has been a good and busy year. We’d like to share some of our favorite photos from 2011 with you.
pink sky sunrise over our local mountains at the start of the year (Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)
tossing boiling water into -25°F air off our deck (awesome science fun!)
February squall in Yosemite Valley (Yosemite National Park, California)
clearing storm (Yosemite National Park, California)
sandhill cranes at sunset in early March (Monte Vista, Colorado)
self-portrait meta moment: shooting myself shooting the sandhill cranes at dawn (Monte Vista, Colorado)
April lupine and California poppies on Figueroa Mountain (Los Padres National Forest, California)
en route to Big Sur, my shooting partner (Jason) and I saw these napping elephant seals (California Central Coast)
Jeremy and I hit the Big Island of Hawai’i in May (my write-up even got a nod from the New York Times): Halema’uma’u Crater glowing after dusk at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
a green sea turtle (honu) sleeping on the beach (Big Island of Hawai’i)
a late Colorado spring meant plenty of snow in the backcountry in June: the bike-ski (left), crampons on morning glaze (right)
backcountry skiing mashed potatoes: Jeremy gets his turns in on the first day of summer (Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)
summer finally arrived in July: the orange bubble (left), riding the mid-mountain trail (Park City, Utah)
an abundance of wildflowers (Crested Butte, Colorado)
enjoying some single-track in the aspen stands (Crested Butte, Colorado)
at the end of July, Jeremy hosted an astrophysics unconference in Boulder: two jam-packed days of science, wining and dining, and the great outdoors
a week later, I held the Food and Light food photography workshop with the best team on the planet: Todd, Diane, and Matt enjoying our instructors’ dinner at Frasca
I am not a concert photographer, but I did manage to score my first photo pass when Andrew Bird came to perform at Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium this past August!
the next morning, Jeremy and I hopped a flight to Seattle: backpacking across the Magical Mile (Olympic National Park, Washington)
for my 40th birthday in late September, Jeremy and I went on a recon trip through Crested Butte and Aspen to scope out the beginning of a spectacular fall foliage season
rainbow over aspens (Crested Butte, Colorado)
bugling elk in rut (Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)
I spent a week in October photographing the best fall colors in Colorado I’ve witnessed in seven years: colorful aspens (Crested Butte, Colorado)
stands through stands (Crested Butte, Colorado)
stormy sunset over the Sneffels Range (Ridgway, Colorado)
lifting clouds and fresh snow on fall colors (Ridgway, Colorado)
Kaweah is now thirteen years old, but she still loves her romps in the snow (Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)
a November weekend in California’s wine country (Sonoma Valley)
we’ve got some sweet Colorado sunsets
Jeremy breaks trail in fresh early season snow (Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)
as much of the total lunar eclipse as I could capture before moonset in December
Happiest of new years to you! We hope it is one filled with beauty and wonderment.
with love,
Jen, Jeremy, and Kaweah
In loving memory of my maternal grandmother (Po Po) who passed away in May. Wise, kind, gentle, respected, and deeply loved.
What? You’re still here? If you haven’t had enough, you can see the photos that didn’t make it to the card. Check out The Cutting Room Floor.