A place eleven hours to our west that never fails to recenter us perfectly... provide us with amazing scenes at which to sit & look, make normal coffee taste just a bit better, and add a hair bit to our story every single time.

Wife, pup, the smell of pines, hiking trails, and four days of no plans. Just about right.

Credit to The Find Lab for unparalleled dev/scan skills.  |  Leica M2 / Nokton 35 / Portra 400

A few frames from a trip through Seattle, Olympia, Sparks, Aberdeen, Portland, and Hood River. More photographs of Garrett & Heather - whose wedding was the primary focus of the trip - can be seen right here.

Portland, Oregon Engagement & Wedding Photographer

Mt. Hood, Hood River, Rusty Wright

Portland, Oregon Engagement & Wedding Photographer

Multnomah Falls, Columbia River Gorge, Rusty Wright

Portland, Oregon Engagement & Wedding Photographer

Cannon Beach, Pacific Coast, Rusty Wright

Portland, Oregon Engagement & Wedding Photographer

Portland Skyline, Pittock Mansion, Rusty Wright

A few dudes on a now-traditional road trip to a house in the middle of the mountains. Plenty of coffee, plenty of good home-cooked food, plenty of tree felling, plenty of fireside sitting, & plenty of wandering out into these views.

Credit to the dev/scan skills of Process One  |  Hasselblad 500C / Zeiss 80 / Portra 400

Sure, I would agree that a certain combination of vision & technical prowess a talented photographer does make; but it's quite comical how easy this picture-taking business becomes when folks like Ezra & Megan get in front of my camera.

They're quite literally the best around.

And, for the sake of acknowledgement, the Kauai coast sure didn't hurt our causes in the slightest.

Ceremony & Luau: Kauai Grand Hyatt
A few personal frames from gorgeous Kauai can be viewed right here.

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

— R.L. Stevenson

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Each winter, I try to make it a point to set out alone for a few days. See new things, open my mind up, do some reading, explore a bit. At the beginning of February, I headed toward South Dakota & Wyoming. I made loads of unplanned stops along the way, slept in dumpy motel rooms, jumped fences & drove gravel roads. I ended my journey by heading toward Chicago before returning home. Eight states, twenty-three hundred miles.