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The colors behind have already popped, but these white buds are holding out a little while longer before showing off their flowers.

The rewards of skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon are not only the fluffy Utah powder, but the sunset you are treated to on the way back down the mountain. Even though I was tired after a long day of skiing I made time to stop and appreciate this beautiful sunset.

It has been a whole week, I have to do it. I have to post another underwater photo. This one is a wide angle shot of some nice fan coral. I thought about getting rid of the shadow of one coral on the next, but I like the depth it brings out.

Some sunsets have clouds, some sunsets are yellow. This one has a crazy shade of purple and a joshua tree. I used a flash and a green gel to light the tree up in a color that offset the sunset. It worked even better than I expected!

Often chased but rarely captured, a hummingbird is one of those photos I tend to obsess over. This time I was able to be close enough and get the light right to capture the colors of this crazy little bird.

Some fast moving clouds meant that I got to have some fun photographing these tall palm trees. The colors were crazy with the night sky and the different colors of light coming from houses nearby.

Not San Jose, CA, but San Jose Costa Rica. Most people had gone to sleep, but a few cars were on the street to provide me with some light trails.

Normally, I’m in my home state of Wisconsin in the winter. This year, I was able to make a trip in the summer and appreciate it from an entirely different angle.

I spent a long, cold hour and 38 minutes by Donner Lake in April to get this shot. The process consisted of continuously taking photos and later combining them to show the the stars moving across the night sky. I also missed five and a half minutes when my camera stopped, creating what looks like a break in the trails. At first I didn’t like this, but the effect is growing on me. Multiple trains passing through gave the foreground an added bonus of a streak of light through the mountain. I’m happy with this first attempt and excited to try it again!

These tulips just scream, “spring is here!”