Recent Photos

A few photos for your enjoyment if you click on the picture above, which I'm using for photofriday.com submittal of "What is that?"

Mountain

Another photofriday.com submittal.

Passage of Time

Another photofriday.com submittal.

Lauren's Birthday

Lauren's birthday was on 12/30 and we were in Minnesota for the holidays. We headed from Darwin, MN where my dad lives up to St. Cloud, MN for dinner at Mexican Village. As we were heading back to our car after dinner we spotted this fallout shelter sign on an appliance store next to the restaurant.

Sunrise

Another photofriday.com submittal.

Primitive

I recently found this website photofriday.com that posts a new photo project once a week. Since I've been looking for a way to shoot a few more photos and projects to improve I'm going to give it a shot and see if I can keep up. I'm sure I won't make every week, but hopefully I can make the majority of them.

Mountain Photo

I took the above photo a few weeks back when Lauren and I were looking for wedding sites. This is one of my favorite shots. I need to get back out and take a few more pictures.

Wedding Website and Engagement Photos

We recently published our wedding website which has all the details on the wedding to www.laurenanderik.org. We also got out engagement photos back and they can be found at engagement photos which is hosted on pictage. Note that this website doesn't work for me in Firefox, so you may need to use Internet Explorer.

Engaged!

Lauren and I got engaged in downtown Denver this weekend. We went out to a nice dinner at the Denver ChopHouse and then I proposed during a carriage ride through the city after dinner.

Foosball

Foosball

Friday we had another guys night of foosball hosted by Brad. We also had Guitar Hero going which was fun when you weren't busy with the foosball games. The event was won this time by Shane and Brad, although Brad was on two teams and they both ended up in the final so Shane and Dave squared off singles for the title game. More photos if you click on the picture above.

Horizon's 2007

Horizon's 2007

I was lucky enough to spend another week up at Snowbird, Utah this year with a fantastic group of undergraduate members of Sigma Chi. With all that happens in the world and what fraternities are known for I wish more people knew what these individuals were doing, I'm proud to be associated with them. As always you can click on the photo above to see the album.

Fourth of July

July 4th

We spent the fourth of July at my Dad's place in Minnesota. It was nice to get out on the lake and relax a bit.

Indoor Skydiving

We went indoor skydiving on Saturday for my birthday. It was fun and also a lot harder then I thought it would be. It's hard to tell that it's us (Erik in orange and Lauren in green), but you can see our flights on the video and then the instructor showing off at the end.

Spruce Creek Trail

I'm a bit late posting this but over Memorial Day weekend we hiked Spruce Creek Trail. There was still a LOT of snow on the trail and we only made it to the lowest lake, Mayflower lake, before we had to turn back because there was too much snow. There were also a lot of unprepared people on the trail, but I supposed you'll run into that on a busy holiday weekend. However everybody looked to be having a good time, so no harm, no foul I guess. As usual more photos if you click on the photo above.

Bathroom Remodel

We completed a bathroom remodel a couple of weeks ago. We had been working on redoing this master bathroom for about 5 months. It's nice to finally have it completed.

Moon

In the photo class I'm taking the instructor told us that you could take a picture of the moon and hand hold the camera just as if you are taking a picture on a sunny day since the moon is just reflecting the sun. Turns out he's right! Kinda cool, but I'd like a larger zoom lens to really get a larger image of the moon.

Baumgartner Farm

Baumgartner Farm

I spent some time in Missouri at my aunt & uncles farm and house. We spent a little bit of time turkey hunting and a bit of time at the house fishing but the majority of the time we spent planting grapes. It seems like it would be pretty easy to do with all the equipment but it's still an awful lot of work. I'm glad that I don't have to make a living farming! It's been awhile since I've been able to join everybody for a family gathering so I'm glad that I was able to make it this time.

Dogs!

I got a new flash for my camera tonight and I decided to try it out by taking some pictures of the dogs. I think it makes a world of difference to have a separate powered flash that I can bounce. If you click on the picture above you'll be taken to an album of their pictures.

Nice

Nice

I know it's been awhile since I posted, but better late then never right? I've been really busy with work and traveled 6 of the 8 weeks in February and March. One of these trips I was able to go to Nice and make a presentation at a virtualization conference for our central and southern European, middle eastern and African customers. I stayed an extra day and was able to get out and see some sights. If you click on the picture above it will take you to my album from the trip.

Holiday Blizzard

As most of you have no doubt seen on the news lately there was a huge blizzard which hit Denver over the last few days. Here are a few pictures of what it looked like at my house.














A Camry that was parked in front of my neighbors house.





















A snow drift that was hanging over the edge of my roof.

















The neighborhood at the end of the day as folks finally started to dig out.