We forgot to mention, we ARE willing to trade our photography services (or my travel planning services) for any special services you may be able to offer. These might include (but not limited to) babysitting, painting, interior design services, event tickets, hair cutting, sewing or anything else that may be a good trade.
A good article relating to the subject:
“Trading What You Have for What You Need”
Let us know and we’ll try to work something out!
Our webpage is finally finished!! We’re so excited to get out there, take more photographs, and expand our portfolio.
Soooooo…….besides our killer deal of 30% off the sitting fees for our friends, the first 5 portraiture appointments we make will also receive a free 8x10!!
Or receive 30% off any Fine Art print or Custom Work order.
So come on in and browse a bit. Hope to hear from you soon!!
We thought that you might enjoy a few pictures (photoset and slideshow) that we took this afternoon. They are very cute and we all had a great time just goofing around. Cuteness just oozes out of our kids!!!! The bright snow outside brought tons of light in our sliding glass door. These were all taken with available light (except the one of Mad with the bottle). Enjoy!
Taken with the Nikon D40 in Zion National Park, Utah on October 19, 2008. Aperture Priority Exposure Mode, 26mm, 1/125 sec at f/4.5, ISO 400, Nikon Raw Format converted to Adobe DNG format. Edited in Lightroom 2.2.
A quick and late post for today. I wanted to post another image from Zion National Park and I chose this one. I really enjoy the lines of this photo and chose to emphasize that in my treatment. It reminds me of a zebra jumping over a rock or a pool. I’m really sorry that I don’t have time to share and explain more; I’ll do better next time! If you have a specific question about the image then let me know in the comments. I hope you enjoy this photo and make time to enjoy yourself behind the lens (even in the cold)!
I attended the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) annual meeting today in SLC. It was a great meeting and I will not bore you with the details. I did learn about something really cool and really important. I’m confident that we will have a similar exercise here along the Wasatch Front in the next couple of years.
Late last year southern California held “The Great Southern California ShakeOut” which was a public drill to generate earthquake awareness and disseminate information to help save lives, identify weak points in the infrastructure, and shortfalls in preparedness. The following videos (click here if you get this via email) show some of that information which is very applicable to us along the Wasatch Front. Please watch and share these!
If you have ever heard of the "triangle of life" approach, forget everything you learned in that email. This page clearly covers the many reasons not to follow the “triangle of life” recommendations (they are dangerous)! Instead follow the recommendations in the videos above and at www.dropcoverholdon.org. Remember DROP, COVER, HOLD ON! This may save your life when we have a large earthquake here along the Wasatch Front. Please share this information with you family and loved ones.
A few weeks ago, Julie and I spent a night with friends in the ranger station in Farmington Canyon. You can see their posts and pictures from the weekend here (the Greens – you can only see their blog if you are invited) and here (the Waters). You can see our pictures here (photoset and slideshow).
After dropping off the kids on Friday afternoon, we stopped at the UofU’s outdoor recreation program (great place to rent all kinds of outdoor equipment) to rent some gaiters and snowshoes (I got some snowshoes as well because I left the split snowboard that I borrowed from a friend at home – ugh)! I was so mad!
We got up to the ranger station just before nightfall, got set up, and then started working on food. After a lengthy and philosophical discussion on whether the breadsticks or pizza should be cooked first, we got the breadsticks cooking. We then ran into a problem, the pizza was too large in diameter to fit into the compact oven in the ranger station. It was snug and the paper tray touched the sides of the oven. There was a warning against letting the paper tray touch the sides of the oven; however, I convinced the others to squeeze the pizza in anyway (what could possible happen right?) . Well, a few minutes later (I can’t remember if it was Julie or Michelle that first noticed), but smoke was coming from the oven! We opened the door and the edges of the paper tray were very toasty, blacked, and smokey! Yikes! We cut the pizza in half (it was a stuffed pizza so the filling oozed out everywhere) and baked each half separately.
We then spent the rest of the night talking and playing some fun games. We played phase 10 (dice edition) and let’s just say I didn’t do very well (OK, OK, I came in dead last place by a long shot and Julie won the game)! It was a blast to hang out into the wee hours of the morning. Finally we crashed and slept in a little longer than planned the next morning. The next morning we all had a sweet breakfast with pancakes, bacon, and eggs. We had both real and fake maple syrup to put on our pancakes; unfortunately, the fake stuff trumped the real stuff in popularity. After a quick cleanup we got ready to do some shoe shoeing and photography. In hindsight we really should have taken some fun photos inside the night before but it didn’t occur to me at the time (bummer).
The sky was cloudy which made it a lot easier to get nice even exposures in a snowy environment. For the first half of our hike we didn’t get snowed on; however, the storm moved in and we started getting pounded so we started heading back. We had never been snowshoeing before and both really enjoyed it. Thanks to Tyson and Diane for putting the whole thing together.
I took this picture at Jensen Nature Park in Syracuse, UT yesterday afternoon. I actually went there to try and get some sunset pictures because we really get some amazingly colorful sunsets here many nights. Unfortunately, the sky was too overcast to catch one. But I’ll try again.
This is a cute little lake where people go to canoe and fish. There really isn’t anything west of this park except open farmland and the mountains in the distance. It feels so far away from anything, even though all you have to do is turn around and there are neighborhoods and the rest of Davis County right across the street.
I love the glory of the sky in this shot. To get it, I had the camera on Aperture Priority, shot at ISO 400, f/4.2, 1/1250 of a second. Then I upped the blacks and yellows slightly, and made it a little sharper.
Here are a few other interesting pictures I took, but I’m saving a couple for possible future wallpapers and Foto Fridays.
Here are a few photos from our visit to Zion National Park last fall. Oh it was so nice there and I miss the warm weather so much! We had such a great time hiking with the kids.
My purpose here is to receive input on which of these photos are good enough to sell. Please let me know what you think and what impressions you have. The winners will make it into the portfolio section of our photography website and eventually be available for purchase. Thanks for your input in advance. Here is a link to the photo set. You can add comments here or in flickr (if you use flickr).
If anyone needs of the following, my brother-in-law, Troy, is looking for new customers.
Troy has worked for a couple of the big HVAC companies in Utah and disliked their dishonesty and unfairness in pricing so much that he started his own business. You really won’t find better prices anywhere.