One of the reasons I enjoy my job with YourBigSky.com is the opportunity to get involved with various non-profit community organizations and events. It is gratifying to be able to help publicize the tremendous work that these non-profits are doing and today provided another of those opportunities when I got to help shoot a commercial […]
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Grateful 365 Day Forty-five
While waiting for our 4 kids (plus 2 more girls that are having a sleep over with Emma) to load up in the van after church so we could go home, I made a few shots of the waxing moon. Due to the fact that I was without my tripod, none of the ones I […]
Grateful 365 Day Forty-four
Independence Day in the United States is a day in which Americans celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thus solidifying the fledgling union’s place in history. The tradition is to get together with friends and family, barbeque and either light (or watch the lighting of) fireworks. We upheld this tradition by buying over […]
Grateful 365 Day Forty-three
I find it peculiar how many things in life are “double-edged swords” in that the things we often value are quite regularly a bit of a nuisance. Such is the case with the subject of today’s photo. We have a 60 foot Ponderosa Pine in front of our house that provides awesome shade in the […]
Grateful 365 Day Forty-two
From time to time we get the opportunity to have my father-in-law, Donald Skartved, stay with us for a few days and today is one of those days. I got off from work a little early today and we sat outside talking and watching WWII planes from a traveling display flying around. This got Don […]
Grateful Day Forty-one
On the way home from church Wednesday night Lilly saw the sunset and suggested that I should take a photo of it. Being that it was during the “Golden Hour” I was more than happy to oblige and I have been itching to make another HDR (click for my first “published” attempt). This photo was […]
Grateful 365 Day Forty
As I mentioned in my previous post, our weekend was very busy so by the time I sat down to post for Saturday and Sunday, I was so tired I decided to call it a night and catch up today. The photo for Sunday is one that I chose, if nothing else, because my kids […]
Grateful 365 Day Thirty-nine
Whew! The last few days have been very busy and as such, I am behind on my postings – but I did manage to take a few (couple hundred!) photos over the weekend. We purchased a larger pool for the kids a few weeks ago and haven’t put it up do to the rather cool […]
Grateful 365 Day Thirty-eight
TIM TAMS!!! Need I say more? Ok – I should probably explain a bit… Tim Tams are a New Zealand biscuit (cookie) that are famous for the “Tim Tam slam” in which a corner on either end of the biscuit is chewed off then the biscuit is used to suck up milk or another liquid […]
Grateful 365 Day Thirty-seven
We had one of the hottest days so far this year with the temperature finally getting over 90° F and with the heat came the inevitable afternoon severe weather watch. I set out with Lilly and Gannon to Amend Park in hopes of capturing some weather images. As it turned out, the clouds that were […]