ANNOUNCEMENT!!! New stock photo site!!! – Burk Images

It is my great pleasure to announce that I have fulfilled a dream (with much help and support from friends)!  Over the years I have taken thousands upon thousands of photos across the US and in a few different countries of big and small things, important and insignificant, beautiful and bland.  Most of those photos have not served any purpose except to bring me joy in the taking and the reflecting.  BUT, for a few years now I have wanted to have an outlet for my work as well as a way to make some money from these photos that I take through life’s journey.

So it is not without a lot of hard work, frustration and good old perseverance that I can announce today that my site is here and it is the beginning of something great, big, grand, glorious and FUN!!!!  You can now buy my photos online, right now, and easily download them onto your computer!!! Check it out!!!!  This is just the beginning!!!!

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White Christmas in Orange County

Who says you can’t have a white Christmas in Orange County!?  You just have to get creative!  :)  Enjoy.

Happy Birthday Andrea – Mt. Rainier Photos

Happy Birthday Andrea!!!  I hope it is a beautiful day and a wonderful year!!!  Check your mail for these photos from your favorite mountain that you will get to visit again one day!!!  Thanks for being such an awesome friend!!!

Washington Beauty – photos from the journey

So it all started about a year ago when a friend from South Carolina (but I met her in Alaska) moved to Washington.  Since Washington is so much closer to me than both Alaska and South Carolina (and airfare cheaper) it was obvious that I should go visit her.  Well….a year passed and we kept talking about it but it never happened.  Then we set a tentative date in July for me to go up. Then that didn’t happen.  

Enter Marc, Esther and Lucas (from my previous post) who were going to come out to northern California from Missouri for a vacation this summer.  Well obviously since northern California is closer than Missouri (and airfare cheaper) I was going to go visit them on their vacation.  Well…plans changed a bit and they decided to go to Washington.  Perfect!  I could visit two sets of friends in one trip and introduce them and clearly it was a great plan.  Then….Marc and Esther decided to head to the opposite coast and visit Florida instead.  Alas, I decided that it was time I went to Washington even if they changed their plan.  It would have been awesome to see them, but we are saving up for a fabulous birthday get together next summer when Esther and I both turn 30!  

I had a great time on the coast of Washington just relaxing and enjoying being in a small town where life runs at a much slower pace.  One evening we took a little drive just to enjoy the beauty of it all.  So many places reminded me of Alaska (and I even saw a lot of Fireweed!!!).  Enjoy the photos:

Sunday Hike – Orange County Hiking Photos

For those of you who don’t know me very well, here is a little secret:  I love to be outside and I love to be engaged in some sort of physical exercise while outside (unless I am at the beach watching the surfers, then I am quite content to just be).  So I was feeling the need to get some exercise this afternoon and went for a little hike…nothing super brutal, but enough to get my heart pumping pretty good.  I grabbed my old point and shoot camera in case there was a good sunset and I did take a few snapshots….   (psst…you should get outside!)