Sunday, November 24, 2013

100 Places to Photograph (Also, Exciting News!)

This will be my last post on this blog site! I'm officially starting my own photography business, so within the next few weeks, I'll be moving my blog to my new website. Once I have everything set up, I'll have my blog, photography portfolio, galleries of recent projects, and information about pricing for portrait sessions all on one website. Stay tuned for posts on my new website featuring my last senior of 2013, as well as photos from my recent photography trips. Hopefully I'll have all of that up and running before Christmas!

Anyway, for my last post, I'm focusing not on photos I've taken, but my bucket list for places I want to visit and photograph in my lifetime. This list has come out of a serious case of wanderlust that I've developed over past few years. I have no idea if I'll ever see everything on my list, but I plan on just having adventures as they come along. As Helen Keller said, "life is either a daring adventure or nothing." I'm choosing the daring adventure!

  1. Iceland
    Photo by Dennis Fischer

  2. Patagonia (in Argentina and Chile)
    Photo by Trey Ratcliff

  3. Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada
    Photo by Matt Champlin

  4. Glacier National Park, Montana
    Photo by Tim Hamilton

  5. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
    Photo by Alan English CPA

  6. Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon, Arizona
  7. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
  8. Sahale Glacier Camp, Washington
  9. Crater Lake, Oregon
  10. The Three Sisters, Oregon
  11. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
    Photo by Max and Dee Stark
  12. Acadia National Park, Maine
  13. Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
  14. Denali National Park, Alaska
  15. Mendenhall Ice Caves of Juneau, Alaska 
  16. Blue Mountains, Australia
    Photo by Vern
  17. Tasmania, Australia
  18. Milford Sound, New Zealand
  19. Northland, New Zealand
  20. Rotorua, New Zealand
    Photo by Gonzalo Baeza H
  21. Lake Taupo/Waitomo, New Zealand
  22. Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand
  23. Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand
  24. Fjordland National Park, New Zealand
  25. Raglan, New Zealand
  26. London, England
  27. Isle of Skye, Scotland
  28. Perthshire, Scotland
    Photo by Sergey
  29. The Great Glen, Scotland
  30. Traquair House near Peebles, Scotland
  31. The ruined abbeys of the Borders, Scotland
  32. Donegal, Ireland
  33. Aran Islands, Ireland
    Photo by Mario De Carli
  34. Blasket Islands, Ireland
  35. Dun Aengus, Ireland
  36. Giant's Causeway, Ireland
  37. Brittany, France
  38. Annecy, France
  39. The Pyrenees (France and Spain)
    Photo by Alfonso
  40. Barcelona, Spain
  41. Seville, Spain
  42. Andalucia, Spain
  43. Monte de Santa Luzia, Portugal
  44. Prague, Czech Republic
  45. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 
    Photo by Philip Milne
  46. A wildlife safari in Tanzania
  47. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
  48. Avenue of the Baobabs in Madagascar
  49. Masoala National Park, Madagascar
  50. Marrakech, Morocco 
    Photo by Charles Roffey
  51. High Atlas, Morocco
  52. Chefchaouen, Morocco
  53. Volubilis, Morocco
  54. Ladakh, India
    Photo by Prabhu B Doss
  55. Kaziranga National Park, India
  56. Kerala, India
  57. Fatehpur Sikri, India
  58. Taj Mahal, India
  59. Bandhavgarh National Park, India
  60. Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan
  61. Yushan National Park, Taiwan
    Photo by Taiwan_Mountain
  62. Taroko National Park, Taiwan
  63. Ko Phi Phi Lee, Thailand
  64. Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
  65. Floating Lantern Festival in Thailand
    Photo by NarrativeDisorder
  66. Hang Son Doon Cave, Vietnam
  67. Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
  68. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
  69. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
  70. Palawan, Philippines 
  71. Val Fonda, Italy
  72. Sicily, Italy
    Photo by Giuseppe Moscato
  73. Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
  74. Dubrovnik, Croatia
  75. Hida Mountains, Japan
  76. Jigokudani Monkey Park, Japan
  77. Daisetsu-zan National Park, Japan
  78. Matsumoto Castle, Japan
    Photo by jpellgen
  79. Mount Fuji, Japan
  80. An Awa Odori festival in Japan
  81. Himeji Castle, Japan
  82. Chateau de Chillon in Montreux, Switzerland
  83. Lucerne, Switzerland
  84. The Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland
    Photo by Gabriel Garcia Marengo
  85. Lake Maggiore Region, Switzerland
  86. Bernese Alps, Switzerland
  87. Bavarian Alps, Germany
  88. Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
  89. The Tatra Mountains, Poland
    Photo by Kamil Kuska
  90. Gdansk, Poland
  91. Toruń, Poland
  92. Zamosc, Poland
  93. Bieszczady Mountains, Poland
  94. Icebergs in Greenland
    Photo by Marie and Alistair Knock
  95. Geiranger Fjord, Norway
  96. Lofoten Islands, Norway
  97. Northern Lights in either Iceland or Norway
  98. A stave church in Norway
  99. Svalbard, Norway
  100. Jotunheimen National Park, Norway
    Photo by Sascha Kilmer

















Monday, November 11, 2013

Anna: Class of 2014

This senior is a very special person to me. Anna is my baby sister, and she graduates in just a few short months. Seriously, how is this even possible?

To reminisce a bit, Anna was my little minion when we were younger, always wanting to do whatever I did. Thankfully we're past the point of her crying whenever I wouldn't let her play with me and my friends, and on to the fun part of being sisters where we do things like coffee dates and midnight movie premieres. She never fails to make me laugh, and I always admire how hard she's working to become a teacher. She also enjoys singing and theatre, and she can really ham it up which is probably quite obvious in some of these photos. All in all, she's the best little sister in the world, and I'm so proud of the young woman she's grown into!