Home on the range...Oregon

Last week my mom and I headed up to Oregon for a quick trip to visit family and the family ranch. In the summers as a kid, my sister and I would spend a lot of time up there, pretty much every summer up till hight school. I love to visit as it makes it feel like summer and brings back so many memories!

During our visit I had planned on shooting my favorite church in the whole wide world, located in the tiny town of Fox, population 9. I get out there on the first afternoon, and what do you know, my shutter breaks!!!! How this happened I don't know, and even though I was bummed, I was super happy it didn't happen in the middle of a wedding. So my friends at Canon are working hard and quick to get that back before our next vacation this weekend, yes August is vacation month for most of the world, so why not me too!?

I ended up using my little point and shoot for some shots, then we headed back to my aunt's. You might remember how I've written about going 100% with your intuition over the past few months? I woke up at 5am, determined to get my sunrise shots with my favorite little church (even if I had to use the point and shoot) and had this bright light come on in my head that said "Hey Allyson, why don't you try shooting with your camera upside down?!" I thought, now that's just silly, but I'll try it. What do you know, it worked!!! Because the piece broken on my camera was dangling down so if I held it upside down, it fell back into place after the shot fired. Now if that's not a sign that I should always listen to that little voice, then I don't know what is. It still did have some technical issues, like a major light leak right through the middle, but I found if I positioned that lovely extra light on something interesting, it kind of worked.

We came, we shot with a broken camera, we had freezing toes in my favorite flip flops in 40 degrees, and we conquered, the little church in Fox, at least the best we could for this trip!
Mi Mama!


The Strawberry Mountains













the new dock at the pond.

Until your next visit, AA, you get the booby prize photo posted!