As the first day in Colorado came to a close we found ourselves at the Mt. Sneffels view from earlier in the day for sunset. This is a time of day that I’ve never photographed this location from. The shadows and sharp contrasts made for some interesting shots. From slightly earlier in the evening when …
Here is the second installment of my photos from my trip in October 2022 to Ridgeway CO and the San Juan Mountains for fall foliage photography. When I have been to a place multiple times to photograph there are a couple of conflicting priorities for me. One is that I want to recreate previous photos …
Sunrise is the most difficult time to photograph in my opinion. The lighting is changing very rapidly and the contrast is extreme between the places the sun is hitting and the places still in shadow. Zooming in on a section of the scene helps with this extreme contrast seen here with the mountain top just …
Since I am going to be doing some wedding photographs at the Yakima Arboretum this coming Saturday, I wanted to check out the location. My daughter Ella was a good sport for tagging along to be my model. The Arboretum consists of 46 acres of gardens and trees with lots of grassy areas. We followed …
Back in 2012 I went up to Silver Lake with my sister Bonnie to take photographs. Later that week I went to the San Juan Mountains for a photography workshop and forgot all about these images. Wish I would have had the long lenses I have now to photograph these two moose that were at …
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 …
It’s hard to believe that my little baby girl is 8 years old today! She is turning into such a beautiful young lady. She is very excited to be baptized this Saturday to become an official member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Because of this she received her very own set …
Towards the end of January I took the boys up for a hike to Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon. I had seen some pictures some friends had taken a week or two before with tons of icicles on the falls and wanted to capture them as well. Unfortunately, the weather had warmed up and a …
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 …
Well, it was a rough year for the Larsen clan at the Pinewood derby. Christian was especially upset about having a slow car. 🙁 ISO 1000, 24mm, f/4, 1/125 sec (all of the shots from the night were taken on manual exposure with the shutter speed set to 1/125 sec to help eliminate blur and …
ISO 100, 24mm, f/5.6, 1/160 sec In an effort to photograph more of the awesome waterfalls of the area before I move in a couple of months I hiked to Burstarse Falls on Saturday…….well, to where Burstarse Falls is located anyway. You access the PCT to get to this waterfall from a trail called the …
This past Saturday after I failed to find where the rest of my com padres were taking photographs I ended up at Greenhorn park. My initial intent was to take some photographs of the park features that could be used in the Yreka Chamber visitors guide. I took the usual walk down the old mining …