Jordan's Prom Picture Video

Jordan asked me to come down and take pictures of him and his date for his Senior Prom. There were 5 couples in all and we had fun shooting. They were all very delightful and seemed to be happy with the way it all turned out. I am honored to be able to do this for them.

Bryce Photo Workshop

Last week Heather and I met Wade and Karen in Bryce and Cedar Breaks Canyons for a 5 day Photo Workshop. This is a compliation of the pictures I took. I learned alot about my camera and some of my lenses and had a great time. This is kind of a long video so if you get bored with it I apologize, but I had a hard time choosing which pictures to use and which ones not to. Even though this video is 26 minutes long, I did manage to chop 12 minutes off of my original attempt. Next year I hope to go to Victoria to Butchart Gardens for Jim's Macro workshop as that is more the type of thing I love to photograph. After 5 days of taking pictures of rocks, rocks and more rocks I started looking for other things to take pictures of. In one place you will see a picutre of a leaf on a bush followed by what looks like a log and some kind of vine. This was taken using Wade's 400 mil. telephoto lens of the vine of that leaf and it was amazing to see how that lens made it look like a huge log or something. There are also some pictures with my Macro lens of the bark of a pine tree, that not having known that is was a tree, you might would still be guessing.

There were many amazing trees threre to photograph also. One of them looks like a man carrying a cat, another looked like a deer and another looked like a dog. Nature is truely amazing the the sunrises and sunsets were incredible! Even though it was a huge sacrifice for me to go to the sunrises it truely was worth it in the end.

Anyway, I hope this doesn't bore you all too much and that you can find some appreciation of the creations of our Heavenly Father in these pictures as I did in taking them.

Demolition Derby in Toolle, UT

This is a fun bunch of pictures I took at a demolition derby that I went to with Heather and her friend Amy and her family. Diane and I used to go to these all the time when we were young and I hadn't been to once since she and I went in High School. It was really fun to go again, and it made me think it would be fun to drive one of those cars and be able to legally plow into other people. One of my favorite rides at Lagoon was always the bumper cars and this would be the ULTIMATE bumper car ride of a life time. I think I must have missed my calling in life (ha ha).

Kinsley's Blessing Video

The wonderful face of a child!

Gotta Love This Face! Kris and Brent spent their first night here on their way to visit their Dad and Mom for a week. Saturday morning they got up early and went to the temple and the kids and I played games and I of course took the opportunity to take some pictures. Here are a few of my favorites. Hope you enjoy them.

Moody Family

My friend at work asked me to take some family pictures for her since her son just got home from his mission and her whole family would be together. This is my first attempt at doing family portraits so I thought I would put a few on the blog.

A Little Bit of Heaven

One Week Old

Life proves to be always changing especially the last month or so. For me, there have been some very good and very bad things going on and thus, I have not been in my usual routines and not been able keep up with the weekly photo challenges. But as for the good, Jessi had her new little girl (Kinsley) on July 1st and I had the pleasure of spending some one on one time with her and the baby in the hospital and got some pictures of her. There is nothing more precious than a new baby and she just happened to come at a time when I needed to feel the comfort of my Heavenly Father more than ever and she and the rest of my family were right there by my side for me to lean on. I am so very thankful to all of them. So here are a few pictures of the new blessed life straight from Heaven and a few of my favorite little photo subject "Tayla" who gave me my first kiss while at the hospital.

Black & White

When we got up to the condo they had this giant chess set outside and it was the perfect subject for this weeks challenge. I took a million different shots and it was hard to narrow it down to just one, but this is it. It was really a fun thing to shoot. I put a little bit of a red filter on this just because I liked the effect. Hope you enjoy it.

Park City

This week, Annette and I went up to our condo in Park City and Becky, Judd, Jessi & Paul came up on Sunday afternoon and we had dinner and enjoyed their company.



Monday night Sue, Randy, Jordan, Aaron and Angie came up and we played some games for Family Night. We had a good time and were glad they came up.



DARN, DAD WON THAT ONE!
Wednesday, Heather and Marial came up and spent the rest of the week. It was great fun to spend time with them again. We spent many nights just talking for hours. It was just like there hadn't been a long time since we had been together. We have known each other for some 29+ years. We decided we needed to make this an annual event.

Saturday, Leah and Angie came up with a couple of Leah's friends (Konnie and Kristen). We had a bbq and took pictures and got caught up on Leah's busy life. She is the Relief Society President in her Ward now and just bought a fancy new car. It was alot of fun to have them come up for a little while. We had a great week and enjoyed all the family and friends that shared it with us!

Red, White or Blue

Well, since we are up in Park City at the condo and the hot tubs were bubbling it seemed like the perfect thing for blue and white. We had Jessi and Paul and Becky & Judd up for dinner tonight and had a very nice time. Tomorrow, Sue and her Family should be coming up for Family Home evening. Wednesday, Marial comes from Oregon and then maybe Heather will join us for a couple of days. It should be a good week.

Bobbie's Ear

I was trying to figure out what to take a picture of for this weeks photo challenge and since Bobbie was sittling in my lap and my macro lens and flash already on my camera this is what I got.

Tulip Festival

Heather and I went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving point yesterday and for the most part it was a big dissapointment. I was expecting huge fields of tulips everywhere, but only found tulips in flower beds along side of walking paths. I guess I had envisioned Holland or something when they had advertised it as a "Tulip Festival", but nonetheless, we took some pictures and here are a few of them. We probably would have found more tulips at temple square, but now we know.

Spring

I love spring when everything starts to bloom. Who knew that using the macro lens would make a simple leaf bud on a tree look like a flower bud. Amazing what details you can see when you have a little help from the camera.