Alice Lake is one of the most gorgeous bodies of water in the Sawtooth Wilderness I’ve visited so far – enough to do the 12-mile hike twice this year! Keep an eye out for a collection of autumn photos from Alice Lake later, and in the meantime enjoy this set. (If you’re interested in doing the hike yourself, check out the Idaho Statesman article.)
While we’re waiting for it to look seriously wintry here in the Treasure Valley, here’s a look back at past winter scenes in Idaho…and let’s keep our fingers crossed for a white Christmas!
You could spend weeks exploring the lakes and peaks of Wyoming’s gorgeous Grand Teton National Park, but even if you only have a single summer afternoon like I did, it’s still a gorgeous spot. Take a look!
Table Rock is one of Boise’s most prominent landmarks, rising above the valley with its immediately-identifiable table-like summit. While the giant cross has been a constant source of controversy as long as I can remember, there’s no denying that whatever your faith, it makes for a pretty sight, especially with storm clouds and golden hour light. With all the rain lately, I bet the trail leading up to the summit is currently closed due to mud, but last week it was dry as a bone and a pleasant hike to the top!
Photomatix is one of those photo-processing pieces of software where once you’ve seen the results, you can easily pick out the photos edited with it ever after. As a tool for what’s called “tonemapping” (in simple terms, equalizing shadows and highlights to bring out as much detail as possible), it produces extremely distinctive, painterly, vaguely surreal results…like the following images.
Castle-like buildings on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut
