Ernie & Holly's Coloradical Wedding

Well I was going to post a "teaser" but I got carried away. So here's some of my favorite photos from their wedding that went down a week ago - today at the legendary "A-Basin" (aka Arapahoe Basin). This is one of my favorite places to snowboard and they are routinely open into the summer as the elevation and location helps the snowpack to stick around quite awhile longer than the other resorts here in Colorado.

Ernie and Holly went all out with their Colorado themed wedding. I'm definitely not complaining. Colorado is amazing, and so was their wedding. These two love the outdoors, laughing, and a good beer. They put a ton of thought into making their day memorable and laidback for everyone.

Their wedding took place "mid-mountain" at the Black Mountain Lodge. It was stunning and the rain didn't come in until well after this awesome couple was hitched.

Thank you Ernie and Holly for having me! It was thoroughly a pleasure, one that I won't soon forget.

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Wilderness Medicine

This past weekend my wife and I went on our very first backpacking trip. We love the outdoors, hiking, camping, skiing/boarding, cycling, etc. But instead of "car camping", which is easy to do with a dog and everything; we decided to put forth a little more effort. It was awesome! 

One of Andrea's patients told her about Music Pass which is southwest of Westcliffe. Neither one of us had explored that part of Colorado before. The sky felt bigger and the mountains more rugged. The closer we got to our destination the greater the wonder we felt.

There is something mystical about being in the wilderness. It has a way of quieting me internally, and making me feel that I need to simplify my day to day life. Being in the mountains refreshes me unlike anything else.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,

places to play in and pray in,

where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

- John Muir

I thought I had ruined this shot. Seeing as I do my star-trails in one take, vs. the stacked method, it is a guessing game. The end result, at 2am was a greatly overexposed image. Thanks to Light Room I was able to recover the details. 1 hour exposure, 24mm, f2.8, 1600ISO.  

I'd never camped in Colorado in a place that wasn't impacted in some way by "light pollution". The timing of our trip was perfect too because it fell on a new moon. I was so stoked to have captured this photo of the Milky Way (another first for me). I tried to show it to Andrea at 2am. 35 second exposure, 24mm, f2.8, 3200ISO 

Chris & Amber Round Deux!

Well that's a wrap!  Of course there's many more photos than the ones shown here on my blog but I just wanted to highlight a few.  Thanks again Chris and Amber for letting me capture your day.  May God bless your life together.

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