I’m overdue to write up a trip report for my three days in Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Since I don’t see getting to that real soon, I have posted a set of photos on flickr that have 50 photos in chronological order across all three days. The set covers my hike to the Salt Basin Dunes, an all-day hike into McKittrick Canyon for the fall colors, and a wonderful hike of solitude on the El Capitan Trail from Pine Spring Canyon to Guadalupe Canyon.

In the mean time, here is a set of four shots that I like from a recent swim meet. (I spend more weekends attending my kids’ swim meets than I do on hiking and photography.) This series shows each of the four strokes that make up an individual medley. I performed some creative processing in Adobe LightRoom to make them near-black-and-white.

The first stroke is the butterfly.

The second stroke is the back stroke.

The third stroke is the breast stroke.

And finally, the freestyle. This last stroke is currently Jack’s best (especially at long distances like the 1000 yard and the mile).

Final Shot, originally uploaded by daveham.

I just finished posting a full three-day series of photos on flickr from my solo hiking trip to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. As soon as I can get to it, I'll create topos for the hikes and post here in the trip reports section.

I have a photography trip planned to Gudalupe Mountains National Park coming up soon, hoping to catch some great fall colors in the mountains and canyons. To update the blog in the meantime, here's a picture of Caroline in her Halloween costume.