Morning Hike

When we went camping on time this summer, I got the pleasure of waking up before everyone else. It was pretty obvious that I had some free time on my hands, so I grabbed my camera and went for a hike around the lake.

It was such a beautiful morning and with the sun just rising, I got some really amazing shots of the lake and the surroundings. Bonus points for using the tree to frame the mountains!

The hardest part of finding great shots was working around the bark beetles. So many of the trees were brown and dead and ruined my pictures. It was sad to see what a tiny little bug, well millions of tiny little bugs, can do to a tree.

I talk a lot about landscape photography on my squidoo site.