Junior campfire practice
After setting up camp, we spent the rest of the beautiful day enjoying the park's solitude and beauty. The kids engaged in a junior who-can-start-the-best-campfire competition. Later, the warm weather and late summer timing encouraged us to experience the pleasantly swimmable water of Catfish Lake. With the warm water conditions, we decided to try something different in the photography department - high-speed stop motion of things water-related: diving, splashing, and water fights.
After swimming, we retired up to the campsite for a relaxing evening of.... relaxing, eating, and a little bit of wine. Kai managed to enliven the evening with a bit of foot-stabbing, courtesy of stomping on logs with sharp branches while wearing soft crocs. Fortunately, his heel wound was quickly tended-to with the extensive first-aid supplies we had brought along with us.
After dark, we were treated to a superb night sky (clear, dry, and free of a light-polluting moon), as well as some faint northern lights. I decided to try - for the first time - a true multi-exposure stacked star trail picture (my previous star shots had up to this point been single exposures). You can see the results in the picture titled 'Northern Star Trail'. It worked, but there were a few mistakes in my configuration that resulted in a less-than-perfect result. Still, passable.
