The Honeymooners - a book project
October 13, 2007
Last year, on June 10, I married the most beautiful lady on the planet.
We had such an amazing honeymoon following our wedding. First we spent 10 days in an amazing cottage in Maui, Hawaii (link on the right). This cottage was so inspring: nestled away on a secluded four acres, at about 3000', the views were something to die for. Waking every morning to the warm soft glow of the rising sun was something to treasure forever. Highly recommended.
After exploring Maui and keeping away from the main tourist spots, we headed back to Alabama and then on down to Pensacola, Florida for a quick visit there before embarking on part two of the honeymoon: Camping in National Parks on our way out to California. We drove fairly quickly through to Colordao where our first National Park was Great Sand Dunes in Southern Colorado. Of course I got Ang to hike to the top of the tallest dune! She hated me for that. Oh well. Continuing on through quite a few more National Parks in Colorado and Utah, all the while shooting with my 4x5" view camera Black and White and Color images as we went. Our last stop was the North Rim campground at Grand Ganyon National Park where we stayed for three wonderful days. The thunderstorm and lightning show on our last night there was spectacular. We're booked in for some winter shooting at the South Rim mid-winter which we're super excited about. I really enjoy winter photography in the outdoors, and I know you'll all love the images we're planning to get at the South Rim.
Back to the honeymoon: this was totally an amazing honeymoon, and one we'll cherish forever. I think it's really worth it to go for as big a honeymoon as you can afford. I was away from California for five weeks! Here is our fine-art album from that adventure. We hope you enjoy it.
Please let us know what you think with a comment below.
Update: Here are some quick snapshots of the book itself.
Five comments for this article:
Wonderful, My love! You did a great job putting our album together. Thank you for asking my opinion, and thank you for making such a beautiful reminder of a wonderful time in our lives! I am so thankful that God brought us together, and I enjoy all of our fun trips together.
What a great album Richard and a wonderful reminder of your honeymoon. We certainly don't have any record like that of our honeymoom nearly 37 years ago!
I especially like the dramatic scenes on Angels Landing. Remember you making a movie of me climbing cautiously down off the top on our special holiday with you in October 2005.
I went and watched the video again: that was such a fun trip on Angels Landing trail! I'll have to make more videos like that...
Hello favourite-equal brother. This is AWESOME!!! You guys look so beautiful together and the photos are amazing! Love you :)
Thanks favourite sister!!! I've put the Video clip up of Angels Landing now on the blog: it's pretty awesome too! You'll have to go there whenever you get the chance to come over and visit...