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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random iPhone pics from my travels

The last few weeks have been crazy busy with lots of good stuff!  Needless to say, I have not been faithful to update the blog with all the cool pictures of the kids I love, but I will soon!  I promise!  For now I thought I would post some iphone pics since they are oh, so handy.

You might remember Andrea from the beach photos here.  She is still so full of joy and fun and she has the best facial expressions!

I LOVE driving!  Even the grapevine was beautiful to me.

Sometimes you just need a little bit of open road in front of you!  And every road trip is different.

LOVE this kid!  (And his mom.)  Do you remember Caleb?  Click here to see him about a year ago.

And his new baby sister.  She has grown a lot since the last time I’ve seen her.  I love her too!  Can we say super cute!

The drive home was gorgeous too!

I managed to catch a few Southern California sunsets before I hit the road again.

My friend Esther and I (in St. Louis, MO).  It has been two and a half years since I’ve seen her.  Read the story here and here.

Driving in the rain in St. Louis!

Real photos and the full stories coming up soon!

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: