Two girls, two cameras, a 4x4.......and no curfew!

My girlfriend and fellow photography enthusiast decided we should plan a day trip up Highway 4 to look for dogwoods.   We had just experienced a freak summer cold snap complete with snow at around the 5,000 ft. elevation...right where the dogwoods bloom in our county.  The first dogwoods we saw were in a CalFire station parking lot so stopped to take the first few shots.  We were very disappointed in all the brown spots left by the snow.

We decided to go higher and see what Alpine Lake looked like.  The sky was extremely bright and oddly we didn't even see one bird to photograph.  Being big girls without a curfew.......and extremely understanding husbands we decided that no place was off limits for our photo day.... so over Monitor Pass we went.  And since we were already heading that direction we just went right on over to Bridgeport.  Bridgeport is one of my favorite places and.....we couldn't be THAT close to Bodie and not go.  So off to Bodie we went.

I tried a tilt shift technique with this one (above)

Bodie was fantastic...as always!  We walked and shot for many hours before heading home.

On the way back over Highway 4 we spyed dogwoods in the parking lot of a bank in Arnold.  It was getting dark but there was just enough light to take a few pictures.

I'm looking forward to our next adventure.