My Photography

2012-01-22T10:46:00.000-08:00

Rain then snow then cold makes for interesting photos. Note that the trees were in the budding stage due to the warm Winter.

Lunar Eclipse over Great Salt Lake

2011-12-10T10:28:00.001-08:00

Cold, poor light, high ISO... more of an effect shot.... don't look too closely... not tack sharp... but, I was there...

Grand Daughter at One Year

2011-12-03T21:25:00.000-08:00

Grand Daughter Addi turns one this coming Friday. Took some time this afternoon and shot her in a variety of settings. This was the third frame... should have stopped then as this was a keeper.

Mike and Becky

2011-12-02T20:38:00.000-08:00

Co-worker asked me to shoot some photos of them and their dogs. Note to self....working with people.... great.... working with animals..... funny.... they ignored a squeeky toy and I only had a few of dozens of shots that had both dogs facing sorta towards the camera. I made many exposure mistakes with and without flash.... but... learned alot and had fun. Thanks to Mike and Becky for their patience with me. These are some that I liked and worked on.

Salt Lake City at Night

2011-11-24T18:12:00.000-08:00

I shot this with a 400mm lens and a 1.4X extender. With crop factor of the APS-C sensor it yeilds just short of 900mm at F8. This was shot from almost 12 miles away on the far side of the Salt Lake Valley. Not razor sharp... but.. I think it turned out pretty cool.

Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake Valley after a storm

2011-07-31T22:58:00.000-07:00

Shot from the foothills to the North of Salt Lake City. Thanks to Lightroom 3 I didn't have to use my graduated ND filter... Probably should have then there would be less post.

Utah State Capital Building after a storm

2011-07-31T22:56:00.000-07:00

A little reworking in Lightroom 3.

Another Great Salt Lake HDR shot

2011-07-09T12:28:00.000-07:00

More HDR work. Interesting to me.

GSL Sunset... more....

2011-07-08T22:30:00.001-07:00

This is a HDR attempt.

Great Salt Lake Sunset

2011-07-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

Another evening spent at the Great Salt Lake. Three mosquito bites to prove I was there. Most of what I shot was bracketed for HDR processing. This was not. Just pulled off the road with my 70-200 F2.8 and fired away. ISO set at 3200, 1/800th of a second at F5 if you must know. I didn't even get out of the car... turned off the engine and rolled the window down... hand held. Loved the colors.

Couple enjoying beach of GSL at Sunset

2011-07-08T20:39:00.000-07:00

Cropped, but unretouched.

Birds on Yale Ave

2011-06-22T20:25:00.000-07:00

Some of the birds that I have shot from the back yard. How many can you name.

Saturday Evening Shooting the Sunset at the Great Salt Lake Marina

2011-06-11T21:30:00.000-07:00

Marnae rode out with me. We went to the GSL Marina... Marnae.... a SLC native ... had never been there before so that was a treat introducing her to the place. I hoped for a brillant sunset... didn't get it. Liked some of the photos that I shot.

Alexa

2011-05-18T22:02:00.000-07:00

Granddaughter playing soccer on a recent visit to Idaho.

Pictureline Class

2011-04-21T07:26:00.000-07:00

This is one of the test shots available during a class that I took at the Draper Pictureline. The class was on getting your flash off of the camera and using some of the remote settings of the camera and flash. I liked how this turned out. They had a fish tank and dropped in a strawberry only after you connected with the two flash units that they set up and then prefocused on a hammer that they inserted in the tank. A lot of fun.

Stormy Spring on GSL

2011-04-19T20:14:00.000-07:00

I was hoping for a brilliant sunset to break out of the clouds. Didn't happen. Time was not wasted however. I still liked the sunset... ish.

Great Salt Lake Panorama

2011-04-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

I took two different Panoramas today. On the second I did not put the lens on Manual and it went out of focus in the middle. I shot 13 photos to make this panorama. The original file when I made the panorama was over 500 meg. It is over 5' high and 12' wide with high detail. A lesson learned from a George Lepp seminar. I liked how this turned out. Still need to do a little retouching in the sky.

Stormy Day at Great Salt Lake

2011-04-09T22:38:00.000-07:00

I chased after the picture of the Peregrin for 20 minutes and this was the best shot. That smart little bird would fly off over the lake when I stopped the car. Varied his moves when I tried to predict his next move. Then flew over the interstate as a final gesture of contempt. Beautiful to watch. Tough to Photograph. Light was dim and the auto focus tried it's hardest. The pair of ducks presented themselves near the end of my outing. They were flying opposite to my travel. Quickly pointed and shot. Not tack sharp, but, I am working on it.

South Shore of Great Salt Lake

2011-03-02T20:10:00.000-08:00

After work the sky looked interesting. I drove West rather than East to home. Time well spent.

This is the reflection in the beach.

More Power Plant

2011-02-05T23:17:00.001-08:00

Lesson learned about no tripod and high ISO (noise). Well... sorta learned

Power Plant and Train Industrial Shot

2011-02-05T19:45:00.001-08:00

Driving back to the plant after having dinner. I had been watching the sunset while eating. This shot jumped out at me. I had actually driven two blocks away and did a u-turn. I softened the noise in Lightroom... not sure if I like the softer look... the image was sharper prior.

Another Skateboard Shot

2011-01-20T21:12:00.001-08:00

Ok... Maybe a little oversharpened... but, I like it.

Skateboarder

2011-01-20T13:45:00.000-08:00

I met Misha at a local park during lunch. He ran through this move five or six times for me to mess with lighting. Nice guy. Then I messed with filters in PSE.

Another Lunch time drive to the Salt Lake

2011-01-19T14:57:00.001-08:00

Antelope Island with shadows. I liked it.

End of Saturday

2011-01-15T18:37:00.001-08:00

Shot this evening. Nope... didn't play with saturation... just shot on the cloudy setting that adds warmth.

Waiting for Train

2011-01-11T22:13:00.000-08:00

Waiting for a train to pass. Only Photoshop work was to crop. 1/6th of a second at F5 with ISO of 3200. Camera balanced on steering wheel. Kind of hated to see the train pass.... kinda....

Addi Lynn Broadhead

2010-12-11T09:58:00.001-08:00

New Grand daughter.

Four hands

2010-11-25T20:49:00.000-08:00

Logan with multi flash capturing four fingering positions on the guitar. Then I messed with it in PSE.

Antelope Island after a storm

2010-10-24T22:26:00.000-07:00

Subtle difference with filter in photoshop

Landscape rule #1: Never have the horizon bisect the photo..... unless you want to....

Hippie using filters

2010-10-24T21:48:00.000-07:00

Peregrine meets Moroni

2010-10-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

Just walking to listen to my step-son's concert and noticed this bird on the top of the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City.

Slow Shutter and Night Driving

2010-10-04T20:42:00.001-07:00

Night Birds

Rainbow

Just Cool

Light 'Waterfall'

5th South Vantage

2010-08-13T20:11:00.002-07:00

Just off Legacy Highway in Northern Utah

late for sunset

2010-08-13T18:53:00.000-07:00

I hurried to get good color of a beautiful sunset. I missed. I did like the muted tones here.

swiss snow

2010-01-24T16:09:00.000-08:00

Some shots of wet snow on sidewalks with water drops from trees making it look like swiss cheese...ish...

Powder Mountain Start

2009-09-07T15:10:00.000-07:00

A closer look at a previous post. More information regarding Jeremy McGrath shows up with a closer look.

Bentley

2009-09-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

Bentley on the slide at a recent family reunion.

Powder Mountain Motocross

2009-08-30T21:34:00.000-07:00

Another...

More from the Powder Mountain Motocross

2009-08-30T21:23:00.000-07:00

These are some general rider photos from the class races.

Powder Mountain Motocross

2009-08-30T18:46:00.000-07:00

This series is of Jeremy McGrath. One of the best motocross/supercross racers in this generation. The track was carved out of ski runs at the Powder Mountain Ski area above Ogden, Utah. These shots were from the Saturday August 29th races.

Another Lunch Time Drive to the Salt Lake

2009-08-27T15:50:00.000-07:00

Sailboat on Great Salt Lake at sunset

2009-08-10T10:40:00.000-07:00

I posted this some time ago. I did a little reworking on the image. I liked it...

HDR Attempt

2009-08-02T20:11:00.001-07:00

Perhaps I should purchase the full version. This will remove the watermarks of the Photomatix software I used to combine three shots bracketed (one stop over, one under and one normal). I like the effect.

Afternoon at the Great Salt Lake South shore

2009-08-01T20:29:00.001-07:00

More from the ALMS race

2009-05-18T14:01:00.001-07:00

2009-05-18T09:49:00.000-07:00

A friend was at the race and caught me in the distance shooting.

American LeMans Series in Utah - Saturday

2009-05-17T22:39:00.000-07:00

More from the American LeMans Series in Utah

American LeMans Series in Tooele

2009-05-17T22:36:00.000-07:00

These are some images that I shot Saturday at the ALMS race. This was at the Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. Many images shot.. more to be posted soon.. Editing takes time. I shot almost 3000 frames in two days.

2009-05-12T14:48:00.000-07:00

Austin in Black and White. Looks vintage. (edit) Actually Austin is one of my grandchildren.

Motonica GP radio controlled racing cars

2009-05-07T22:37:00.001-07:00

One of the sick fast 1/8th scale race cars

More from the Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park

2009-05-07T22:31:00.001-07:00

more from the Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park

2009-05-07T22:28:00.000-07:00

Rolex Sunchaser race at Miller Motosports Park

2009-05-07T22:18:00.000-07:00

Early Fall 2008.

fog ducks

2009-05-07T21:54:00.000-07:00

On the way to work early on a Saturday. It was about 10 degrees F. I only shot a few shots as it was very cold. The one duck watched me as the others slept.

Just a few more ....

2009-05-07T21:50:00.001-07:00

more racing from Miller Motorsports Park

2009-05-07T21:48:00.001-07:00

Miller Motorsports Park SCCA School

2009-05-07T21:41:00.001-07:00

My friend was in the red Spec Miata. The first photo is the just before the start on the last day of the SCCA two day school.

Lunch time drive

2009-05-07T21:13:00.001-07:00

I took my lunch break for a quick drive to the South shore of the Great Salt Lake. I liked the clouds as I shot North.

Sunset shoot at the Great Salt Lake

2009-05-07T21:05:00.000-07:00

Salt Lake at Sunset

2009-05-07T21:01:00.001-07:00

I took almost 250 images during this evening shoot:

A Place for my Keeper Photos

2009-05-07T20:33:00.000-07:00

I wanted a place to post some of my favorite Photos. It is a relaxing hobby for me. Let me know what you think.