Tahoe
January 1, 2014
Wong knew I had been through a lot, emotionally, the past couple of weeks since my mom passed away. He wanted to take me out somewhere, just to get away for a bit and clear my head. He decided to take a day trip to Tahoe. Our original plan was to get up super early and shoot sunrise at the lake. We also heard about people surfing on the lake due to a storm that would cause waves big enough to surf. I brought a lot of different cameras and lenses, hoping we’d be able to see some surfing. Right off the bat, things didn’t go as planned. We both woke up kind of late, but still decided to make the trip anyway.
I’ve always had this mental image of a concept that involved “snow on the beach”. I pictured a beach like Ocean Beach in San Francisco, covered in snow, with the waves crashing onto it. I wondered what it would look like, and how the waves would interact with the snow and sand. I guess this was the closest I came to seeing it in real life.
As the sun set for the first time in 2014, we started to get some gorgeous shades of orange, and purple, and it ended up being a beautiful sunset. I, of course, started to think about my mom for a bit, and what I’ve been through the past several weeks, and I let it all sort of just soak in. The new year is so representative of a new beginning, and I didn’t have any doubts that after everything I’ve been through, and all the worries that I had, I would get through it and be okay
The Orion Nebula. It’s even amazing to be able to see it with the naked eye.
After we took some long exposures in the freezing weather, we finally left Lake Tahoe. We had a bit of a scare because as we were driving down from the overlook, Wong’s car decided to quit and shut down, and had no response to any controls. Immediately, we go in a bit of a panic mood as we were trying to figure out what happened. I started to worry about having to stay in Tahoe for the night when I had work the next day. We coasted down the winding road for another mile or so when we finally reached the bottom plateau and came to a stop. Sitting there in complete darkness, we were baffled. We had no idea what to do. After a couple of minutes, Wong turns the ignition, and the car started. We took off and headed back home.
SHOT WITH A NIKON D4, D300S, FM2, A PANASONIC LUMIX GX7, AND A SONY RX1R
