July 19, 2018 — July 23, 2018
This year I attended HOPE 12, The Circle of HOPE. “HOPE” stands for “Hackers on Planet Earth”, and is one of the older hacker conferences in the US. It’s put on every other year by the crew from 2600 Magazine.
Attending HOPE is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. While I didn’t take any photos in the conference itself, these are a few photos I took around the event.
July 7, 2018 — July 8, 2018
A weekend at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Technically a work trip, but I managed to fit in one short hike on the dunes!
June 21, 2018 — June 27, 2018
Idaho, mostly in and around the Malad River Gorge, Shoshone Falls, and Craters of the Moon National Monument& Preserve.
June 16, 2018
A short excursion to Bear Lake and the Alphine Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Every year Len and I take a short vacation around her birthday. For 2018 we decided to spend a couple of days in Telluride, CO. On the way back we stopped by one of my favorite (and I think, under-rated) national parks, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
Photos from the Denver Botanic Gardens‘ annual orchid show, many of which I tagged for the usual photo contest (though none won).
Photos from the 2017 TPIN Aspen retreat/vacation. The vacation was fun (though I got sick during the second half), but what struck me the most was how little snow was on the ground this year… Far less than I’ve ever seen in December this late in the year.
Photos from my friends’ Pat and Emily’s wedding near Winter Park, Colorado. This set of photos sold me on the power of the combination of the Pixelbook’s pen and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC.
A combination of astute planning and sheer luck/misfortune saw me traveling from San Francisco, to Louisville, Kentucky, to Washington, DC over the course of two and a half weeks.
A week spent road-tripping to Arches, Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon National Parks, and a few more spots in between.
Nathan Acks lives in the Western United States. Over the years he's worked with a variety of different formats, from disposable point-and-shoot film cameras to high-end digital formats. These days he focuses on pushing the limits of smarrtphone photography.
When not photographing his adventures, Nathan spends his time thinking about the future and working to change the world for the better at a national non-profit.
