Progress Hurts

About a year ago I stopped on my normal path home and photographed these trees that were along the side of the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville, Ut. Well the past two weeks as I have been going to and from work I have watched progress on the removal of these trees. I was waiting for their fall colors to try and photograph them again this year but progress has stopped that option. They are now all gone leaving behind some badly misshapen pines that had been growing up between them. Yes progress does really hurt sometimes, I will miss those trees.

BOX CANYON near Escalante, Utah

I love to hike even though I don't get the opportunity very often. However twice I have hiked as an advisor to a group of young women through an 8 mile canyon called Box Canyon in the Bolder Mountain range in Southern Utah. I was so impressed by the magnificent canyon walls and the pine trees that grew in the canyon. Here are some of the images from one of my trips through the canyon.


One of the fun things to do while photographing areas is to see what a difference can be seen between two images of the same scene only taking one image as landscape and the other as portrait. Notice that the cloud formation is the main key to knowing the two images were taken at the same time.

FALL COLORS

I really like fall color. Here are a few images from my archives.

A Fall Trip

I love fall and all of it's vibrant colors. Keeping what the eye can see and putting it on paper or into a blog that way is a much different story. I still haven't figured out how to capture the color and transfer what I see on the screen to my blog. That being said I still love to try and still love to photograph fall colors.




And then I like to throw in a little of what I grew up with in pictures, Black and White images. They are gaining a lot of favor with the generations that grew up with color.

Class

I had the opportunity to attend a seminar a couple of years ago for photoshop taught by Andy Anderson. The very last thing he did that day was to show us a technique using a few layers and a few layer effects. I came right home and tried it out and before long had some very fun pictures that looked more like art rather than photos. Here are a few examples followed by an image at the very last of one of my favorite friends.

A look at the past

The topic for today goes way back. Archiving. I was asked this week to make up an image for a beautiful bride that I had photographed in 2003. I had marked the back of her pictures that I had given her using my numbering system that I had at the time. (It worked great on film but I have had to change since going digital.) Anyway I was able to find in a matter of minutes from my 58 books of 35 MM neg., each book holding approx. 75 rolls, the precise roll on which the picture was located. I was glad that I had taken the time to properly mark and archive my negatives. (I wouldn't be so lucky with my negatives from 1972 when I did my first wedding even though I have kept all of the negatives that I have ever taken, well that's not quite true, I did give some negatives to the bride when I was first doing weddings. Now I give them all of their images on CD but still have a copy of them in my archives.)

 It was actually a lot of fun going back to these negatives and seeing how I have changed some things in my work and not changed others.  Like I said earlier I am sure glad I had a method of archiving my images. 

I guess part of the fun was also seeing that the day we took these pictures it was pretty windy and when you use an outdoor studio 80% of the time you have to learn to work despite the elements. It can be challenging and rewarding.

Point of View

So it's a simple one tonight. Here is three images of the same thing only from a different point of view. Nothing is ever the same if you look at everything from all sides.

 The candidates can say something in a debate but depending on which side you are for you can find a newspaper reporter that will say one beat the other so badly and then someone else will say they didn't. SO you must think it through and study it for yourself. Look carefully. It's almost time to vote. But then you live with the outcome and so does everyone else. 

Who would think three photographs could be used to teach a lesson in politics! I took these three pictures thinking nothing about politics but just as the shadows are cast by the sun from the same spot the outcome is different when you have a different point of view. The differences between the last two are not as obvious but still there none the less.