A Special Teacher

Just thought that I would do a little fun today. This is a wonderful preschool teacher who's personality seemed to sneak out in this picture taken at a sister-in-law's wedding reception. But due to the background and distance from her when I shot the image I decided to do a little photoshopping.

Now when I start this process I never know what I really will end up with after I am done. Today was a simple add two layers, radial blur the second, and mask the third then crop it and flatten. Make another layer filled with black and another layer of the cropped image again in third place and add a black border to the second layer. Makes a big difference in the final image.

Rainy Day Tulips

I went to Logan Utah for a graduation exercise for utah State University. The graduates had a long walk outside to arrive at the event center where they were holding the exercises. After they had lined up it started to rain and then kept raining for a good part of the day. Every tulip in the valley was closed up and so I decided to take some pictures of them that would be totally different from the usual mid day tulip shots. I like how they turned out.

2009 Graduates

So now 2 more of our children have graduated from a university. Loren Graduated from BYU on April 24, and Brittany graduated today May 2 from Utah State University. Congratulations to both of you. We love you,

Gotta Luv Spring

We went on a hike to the park tonight with our granddaughter and this was what I found along the 100 yard hike to the park. I love the apple blossoms of the spring as well as the other kinds that also come out.

Moon and planet at 6 am 4/22/09

This morning I have decided to start work a little later because when I got in the car to come to work I saw the moon and one of the planets together in the eastern sky. I stopped and took a picture then went to work knowing that the flag there would be in the right spot to take an interesting picture of it again. I was afraid that it would disappear though as it was starting to get light. Well it was still visible when I got by the flag and within 4 minutes of the second shot the sunrise had blocked out the light from the planet. Sometimes photography can be like that (in fact most of the time when dealing with nature), the subject will change or be gone unless you act quickly.

At 5:55 A.M. in Mapleton, Utah near Texaco Station on North end of town.

6:05 A.M. in Spanish Fork Utah near Provo Craft building. The planet is barely visible to the side of the moon.

6:09 A.M. also at Provo Craft building in Spanish Fork Utah. Even though the image was exposed darker the planet was no longer visible due to the start of the sunrise and the movement of the moon. Timing is everything sometimes.

Replay of a few images.

So for some of you these will be a replay of images that you have recently received from me in my Good Morning emails. However for others they will be new so I decided to post them just for the fun of it. I love photography and have for years (some of these pictures have been taken as long ago as 1973 and as soon as this spring for others).

Easter Egg Hunt 09

I am a little late getting these posted since I have been working on several other photo shoots and not getting a lot of time to prepare images for the blog. Anyway here are some of the images from our Easter Egg hunts with the grandchildren. I know they didn't find them all since I found another one yesterday still sitting on the handle of the van. They had fun though and that was the important part.

Here is the youngest one of the group and the next image is the oldest one participating in the hunt. Brooklyn is 5 months old and Gabe will be 5 years old on May 30.

Then there are the two that are nearly the same age, one age 2 and the other soon to be two in another couple of months. They had a great time as well. Sam will be 2 on June 20 and Hallie turned two on March 14.