Pacific Northwest Trip

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(ABOVE: Downtown Seattle from Kerry Park. 50mm, 30 sec at f/22, ISO 100). Well folks, we’re still on our massive road-trip around the Pacific Northwest. We came up to Washington last week to shoot a fabulous wedding (pics coming next week), and we decided to take some time off of work to visit friends, family and some insanely beautiful locations around the Northwest before we move to San Diego next month… WOW, that’s coming up fast, we haven’t even started packing!!! Anyways, here are some photos from the trip thus far:

pacnw-blog-4We visited this little lake up in the mountains and it was quite windy. This is what Joelle does when it’s windy.

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We’ve visited a lot of my (Gary’s) relatives who live all over the place in Washington, two of which are my mom’s parents – Joelle’s great grandparents. They are so sweet together and couldn’t get enough of Joelle. They have a huge ranch / farm in the mountains of central Washington. It was so peaceful to be out there and disconnect from the world for a few days (literally, we didn’t have cell signals or internet or anything… we even watched a movie on VHS, it was an awesome blast from the past). Okay, so we kept coming across these “big foot” prints that would run across the road every now and then, pretty funny stuff. I’d definitely be friends with whoever did this.

pacnw-5Spent a lot of time in Seattle and it’s been insanely fun for Courtney and I. We’ve just been running around the city (babyless – thanks mom) checkin’ out all the sites, eating delicious food, getting all jacked up on great coffee and having some stellar “date days and nights”!!! Anyways, we also got kinda carried away with some self portraits (using the good ole timer function on our cameras):

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Coolest wall ever at the EMP building in the Seattle Center area. We seriously LOVED this city, we think it’s even better than Portland… and those are strong words, but we said it :) We love love love this town and will fight anyone “in the face” who doesn’t agree.

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  • http://cyphersphotography.com Amy Cyphers

    LOVE the pics! You two are so inspiring.

  • http://www.crd-photography.com Carisa Dodson

    Wow, so fun! Our pics in front of the EMP are not NEARLY as cool haha. Looks like you are having a great time! We loved Seattle too, and have contemplated moving there. UDub has a biomed-enginerring program that Blair could do post-doc work or possibly work at……guess only time will tell!!! Though, I feel like I need to visit in the winter when all the rain is there, not sure I could handle that. Give Seattle a BIG hug from us. As for me, I’ll continue to re-live Seattle’s epicnesss vicariously through you two.

  • Lyndsey

    As always the pics are AMAZING!! You both are so talented!

  • http://kutumaini.com/ joe

    Dude these pictures are ridiculous! as usual..

  • http://photorangephotography.com anjuli paschall

    oh so much FUN! I agree, I like Seattle more than Portland. Makes my heart ache- wish i was there!

  • Nathan Strubhar

    Seattle is better than what? You want to say it again? I don’t know Gary maybe I will fight in you in the face. I actually do like Seattle a lot it’s pretty sick. Portland or Seattle…mmm… they’re both still rainy. You guys look good Seattle. Love you guys a ton.

  • http://thebennettars.com Nicole

    That wall is amazing! You guys even take awesome self-portraits- wow!

  • http://koreyo.blogspot.com Korey

    It’s so unfair that you manage to take such amazing pictures OF YOURSELVES. My husband and I have a series of bad “I’m holding the camera with one arm which is why I have a double chin” shots. :)

  • andreas

    awesome pictures! thanks for sharing your life true the camera lens with the world!
    your finnish stalker/friend =)

    -andreas