A week and a half ago from the 23-25th of August we went down to Forence OR, to our usual haunt Driftwood Shores resort, for a family reunion. We had a great time on the beach, I took photographs of the Heceta Head Lighthouse Saturday morning at sunrise as tradition dictated. Then Taunya and I …
Last summer as part of our teachers quorum high adventure we stopped at Ruby Beach on our way from Port Angeles, WA to Westport, WA. This is a popular, beautiful, wide, sandy beach where a lot of people stop to enjoy the sand and the ocean. ISO 100, 14mm, f/5.0, 1/800 sec This is the …
I spent a lot of the day today, well at this time yesterday….., taking photographs with my son, Christian, for the upcoming Vail Valley Art Guild Side by Side show. This is where a photographer and another medium artist pair up to create the same scene. Here are the images from the days shoot. …
This morning before we headed home from our bicycling weekend in St. George, we went around to a few places to get some sight-seeing in. I wanted to get a photograph of the St. George Temple so I dragged my Brother and Dad over there first. They only protested slightly in jest. 🙂 I took …
ISO 3200, 14mm, f2.8, 30sec These natural events really need to only occur on weekends 🙂 Being a Wednesday night and Thursday morning really didn’t help me getting up for work the next day when I was out photographing until roughly 4am! ISO 4000, 14mm, f2.8, 30sec Shooting a meteor shower can be a frustrating …
I need to apologize to Tiffany and Joshua, but I have to first share some of the amazing landscape photographs from the day as well! My wife Taunya is always giving me grief for taking photographs that don’t have people in them….. Here are some sunset shots that point out how quickly the lighting changes …
This is an additional post with more photographs from our trip to Utah, last week, to drop my son Tyler off at the missionary training center in Provo, UT. Tyler had never been to Arches National Park, and I always love to go there and take photographs, so we stopped on our way for a …
On Saturday, May 9th we took my son, Tyler, to the temple to take out his endowments prior to him leaving on his mission to Saint Petersburg, Russia to serve the Lord for 2 years. He chose to take out his endowments at the Oquirrh Mountain temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day …
These photographs have been patiently waiting to be edited and posted since Thanksgiving weekend 2014. After taking my sister Jolene’s family portraits, my brother Jon and his family went over to the capital to take some photographs. These photographs were taken with my D800 and the awesome 14-24mm 2.8G lens from Nikon. Love this one of …
ISO 100, 24mm, f/5.6, 1/5000 My sister, Bonnie, and I went to down town Salt Lake City to a park called Memory Grove Park. This is a memorial park for veterans. They have memorials for WWI and WWII. ISO 200, 14mm, f/5.6, 1/1250 I’m not done editing all of the photographs from this afternoon, but …
ISO 500, 14mm, f/6.3, 1/160 Way back in April of 2014 I went to Moab and Arches National Park to take some photographs and to meet up with my good friend Don Hill. I posted parts 1,2, and 3 of my photographs from this trip some time ago. Having taken so many photographs this summer, …
I learned about an iconic chapel in Beaver Creek this week. President Gerald R. Ford was instrumental in constructing this wonderful building. I had the opportunity to talk with the caretaker of the Chapel, a man named Rob, I apologize if I am remembering his name incorrectly. He told me a lot about the history …