We went to the South Lake Tahoe airshow today. It’s a small airshow, but there were some interesting planes there.

Always on duty, this F18 kept busy protecting citizens and visitors alike.

My birthday is actually on the 28th, but we celebrated a day early this year so that we could be with all our friends at camp.

We’ve been going to Stanford Sierra Camp for 14 years now, and my birthday has fallen in that week every time. It’s the perfect way to be with friends and forget you’re getting older.

7AM, and things are quite for the moment. It’s a beautiful day ahead, and the canoes won’t get much more rest.

Our friend Steph out for a wakeboarding run on Fallen Leaf Lake. The lake is really cold, so she’s wearing a drysuit – only her hair will get wet. This run is in the afternoon, so the lake is getting a little windblown and choppy. My son, Eric, is driving her boat, we’re chasing along in ours to take some photos.

After a 6 mile hike, climbing 3,400 feet we got to the top of Mt. Tallac (9,774 feet). The wind was perfect, and out came my kite and camera. This shot is from the kite looking down at us on the peak.

A view of the peak from Angora Ridge is here.

A crystal clear night in the Sierras. This is a one minute exposure with minor processing in Lightroom.

View On Black

Another view of the lake, this one from Angora Ridge as we were hiking up. The wildflowers are abundant this year – the foreground features Mule Ears which are everywhere.

A beautiful lake next to Lake Tahoe, we spend a week here each year at Stanford Sierra Camp.

Yea, what the note says.

This is the top of a glass vase we have, lit a la "Light – Science & Magic" with white behind it and blue on each side. I then processed it in Lightroom to tint the bg blue also (probably could’ve just gel’d the flash). I like the cool icy look, probably because it was 100 degrees here today and we were working outside for part of it. Ugh.