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Katie Smith

Oregon Coast Photography

I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip last Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here. Today I wanted to share a few of my photos from the Oregon coastline. We went all the way down it, camping at various state parks. Oregon’s coast is just breath taking.We actually spotted a few whales around Depoe Bay, but this was the only phot

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Olympic National Park Photography

I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip last Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here. Today I wanted to share a few of my photos from our stay in Olympic National Park, which is in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. We camped here for a little while, seeing the sights like the Hoh Rainforest and then we stumbled into Twilight t

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Mount St Helens Photography

I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip last Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here. One of my favorite national parks that we visited (Not that I could actually choose a favorite. There were way too many!) was Mount St Helens. Now, I loved Mount Rainier as well, but there was something about seeing the destruction that Helens l

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Glacier National Park Photography

I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip this Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here. Today I am sharing photos from our day in Glacier National Park in Montana. We only had one day here, but it was AMAZING. Like, This was one of my favorite days from our trip. We hiked up to Avalanche Lake, which was about a 4 mile round trip hi

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Magical Books Photoshoot

Lately I’ve been sharing a lot of photos from our Summer road trip, but I wanted to take a quick break from those to share with you a mini photoshoot I did a couple of weeks ago. I had the whole weekend to myself, so I took my camera, remote and tripod down to the river and snapped a few self portraits. I wanted these to have a fantasy feel to them, because I think books are pretty magical. And what is magic without a bit of levitation? I discovered levitation photography bac

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Yellowstone National Park Photography

Hey guys! I’m still catching up on sharing some of my photos from our epic road trip this Summer. We left Texas in May and then took a meandering trip across the western half of the USA before ending up in Seattle. You can see more photos here. One of the super cool places we stopped at along the way was Yellowstone National Park. Let me tell you- if you haven’t been there, you should go! It definitely lives up to it’s reputation of being awesome. Let’s start this post with O

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Colorado Photography Part 4

Photos, photos, photos. I thought I was just getting ready to move on to another state from our trip to share more photos with you, but then I realized I still have plenty of Colorado photos. Colorado is just way too photogenic. In my last photo post I shared some astrophotography from Colorado, and today I’m sharing photos from the Rocky Mountains National Park. Which is just gorgeous if you’ve never been there. You need to plan a trip. I was SO excited to see not only one m

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Colorado Astrophotography

Here are some more photos from my trip to Colorado early this Summer! This time, my attempts at astrophotography, taking photos of the stars. This is only about my 5th time doing astrophotography, so I’m definitely still learning! I haven’t mastered focusing in the dark yet. Southern Colorado has one of most amazing night skies I’ve ever seen! Where I was staying was about 30 minutes away from the closest town, and even that town was tiny. So there was no light pollution. The

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Colorado Photography part 2

I took SO many photos while I was in Colorado for a month. Like hundreds. I am just sharing a select few with you here, the ones I love the best, so that I don’t totally overwhelm you with a gazillion photos of mountains. I took a few hikes by myself early in the morning so that I could watch the sunrise from up on top of the rock dikes. It’s pretty magical. I also took a couple of selfies of myself and the landscape. Normally I would feel really weird posing like this, but c

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Colorado Photography part 1

As you may know, I spent the Summer traveling. For the first month of the Summer I was visiting family in southern Colorado- which is gorgeous!! There are so many wonderful photography opportunities there and so I took advantage of them! I took a ton of photos, so here are just a few of them, I’ll be doing multiple photo posts in the next month. The Spanish Peaks region of Colorado is world famous for its dikes, what you see in the photograph below. They were formed by magma

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Beavers Bend Photography

Hey everyone, Happy Friday(YAY)! Can you believe the first week of March is nearly gone? I guess it’s time for all the Spring crafts! It’s also time for another photography post! This time, my photos from a fairly recent trip to Beavers Bend state park in Oklahoma. This was actually my first time shooting with my new wide angle lens. If you haven’t been to Beavers Bend, it’s such a pretty park! It’s a good place for camping! #photography

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Photographing Lake Somerville + Astrophotography Take 2

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that we love taking weekend camping trips and I take a lot of nature photos. Nature photography is my thing. Our most recent camping trip took us to Lake Somerville state park, here are my photos: You can tell in the sunrise pictures below that I need to clean my lens. There’s a few specks on it… These next couple of photos are actually kinda blurry, but I am so proud of them! That green blob is Comet Lovejoy. Which wont be ar

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Photographing Inks Lake + Astrophotography

Last month we went camping at Inks Lake state park, it is such a beautiful park. We had a good adventure, it did rain on us both nights (it’s not a camping trip until it rains, right?) and on Sunday morning we woke up to freezing rain. I loved it though. I got some good nature shots too! I got a remote for my camera for Christmas and I’ve really been wanting to try doing some astrophotography (pictures of stars). Here are my very first attempts at astrophotography (and a litt

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Saguaro Lake Photography

This is how we spent our Thanksgiving weekend- Hiking around Saguaro Lake in Arizona. It was gorgeous, I’m sure it would be a fantastic place to swim in the summer time. Yeah, that was over a month ago, but I’m just now getting around to sharing the pictures I took. These first two photos are my favorites. They make me think of Jurassic Park, or LOST or something like that. 😉 I love taking photos of nature and animals (people are WAY harder!). What is your favorite thing to

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Cedar Hill State Park Photography

The week before Thanksgiving my Mom and I decided to take an impromptu camping trip to Cedar Hill State Park. It was a fun little trip. I stepped on a mesquite thorn, got briars all over my favorite pants, melted my tennis shoes and our tent zipper malfunctioned, but all of that is what made it a great trip! 🙂 I, of course, brought along my camera and took a bunch of photos. It’s hard to tell, but in the photo below there is a coyote! We heard something big moving around bac

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Garden of the Gods Photography

I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle in Colorado earlier this month and I already shared a few photos from our trip to Sugarite Canyon State Park and today I wanted to share my photos from Garden of the Gods. I flew home from Denver, so on my last day in Colorado we left early headed towards Denver but stopped in Colorado Springs along the way because there are so many neat things there we couldn’t just drive through. We went to Garden of the Gods and the Manitou Springs Cliff Dwe

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Sugarite Canyon Photography

If you follow me on Instagram, you probably know that I spent the first week of October traveling around! I was staying with my Aunt and Uncle who are building an off the grid house up on a mountain in Colorado. If you’re curious about their Grid Free Life, you can follow them here. Anyhow I was staying with them, helping them work, exploring, relaxing, etc. One day we decided to drive to Sugarite Canyon State Park in New Mexico to hike around. I didn’t have my DSLR on this

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Daingerfield State Park Photography

I have been traveling a lot lately, camping, visiting family, etc. I love traveling, taking photos of places I’ve never been and things I haven’t seen are some of my favorite things. 🙂 Back in September we went camping at Daingerfield State Park (in Daingerfield, TX, of course.) These are some of the photos I took: (That’s my unicycle, I rode it around the campground) With all of this traveling I’m doing I’m taking a ton of photos, so I hope you enjoy seeing them because I l

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Cacti and Succulent Photography

While I was hanging out in Arizona in August, I had the opportunity to photograph lots of cacti and succulents. Cacti everywhere! I don’t have a macro lens anymore, but I still had fun shooting these with my kit lens. Most of these are from the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. Okay, so those last two weren’t cacti. But we saw both that big king snake and the pretty bird at the botanical gardens. Taylor and I also got a few succulents and cacti from a local nursery to plan

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Petrified Forest Photography

During our trip out west last month, we drove through the Petrified Forest National Park. It was really neat to see both the petrified wood and the painted desert as well as petroglyphs and other fun things. I brought my camera along and took some photos. #photography

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