Left Behind!

Sorry for those who have only been able to follow me on here, I have moved my site to here, as it is much more helpful for small businesses and is, frankly, much easier to use!

At the speed of light

Its hard to believe that September is almost over already, but hey, who is fighting it? The sooner it cools down here, the better!
Here are a few bits and pieces from recent shoots and some personal and school projects from the past couple weeks.

This was just a little scene that I put together.

Here we have Neya and Michael, they are my new models, and I look forward to working with them again really soon!

You can become a fan of Neya on Facebook

Just a candid portrait of my friend when we went out to lunch the other day.


And now ending with Ben, who is going to be serving a mission in Idaho.

Tiger

Just one quick post before bed (I'm exhausted!). This has been a great week, I had a model shoot and took a crack at animal photography. I think these opportunities are just repayment for all the computer issues I seem to have been experiencing...

Have a great Labor Day!

New York

It's been an insane past couple weeks, I have barely found enough time to post some of my favorite shots from a trip to the big apple with my dad. New York is truly an incredible place!

Everywhere we went, there was something that caught my eye, I saw this door and wondered how many people must pass it daily, but never stop to admire the symphony of color it displays.

From the top of a tour bus, I could appreciate this mural painted directly on the side of a building. (I wonder if it blinds any airplane pilot that may pass by!)


A lot of our time was spent waiting for subway cars that we just barely missed. This wouldn't be so bad if the tunnels were a stifling 85+ degrees at 40% humidity. At least I was distracted!

This Space Invader mosaic is no larger than my hand. I must have stared at it for a few minutes before Dad got annoyed at me for wasting time!

One subway was decked out floor to ceiling in these incredible mosaic pictures, I will have to post more some other time

And of course, we walked the Brooklyn bridge!

July

I just finished my "Strategies for College Success" class, and now there is two weeks till the fall semester. Woo summer!
Linds wanted some cap and gown pics, and it kind of grew into a second set of senior photos!





Sam is one of my closest friends, and next week he will be serving a mission in Madagascar for 2 years. I'm honored that he wanted me to take his "official" missionary photos.


Later on back at Sam's house, I had a staring contest with his cat.

He won.

Keeping Busy

I haven't had much free time lately due to school and other obligations, so its been slow going on learning the new creative suite, but this weekend I'm determined to figure out its secrets!

The past couple days I have been trying to tackle the HDR Pro function, its probably the most powerful tool I've ever seen in a photo editing program.





I also purchased lighting equiptment recently, and so the other day I did a self portrait for practice. I promise, the beard is gone for good now!

I'm Back!

Hey everyone! It's been quite a while since my last post, I've been rather busy with an into to digital photography class (It was pre-req, I had no choice if I planned on going on to more advanced classes) and it cut into a lot of my free time.
BUT its finally over!! :) and I look forward to weekly posts once more.




Mom and I went hiking in Usery today, she got annoyed at how often I would stop and play with my fisheye adapter and take pictures. :) I still had fun! Both mom and I are very sore from the rocky 7 miles.

These are pictures I took for my photo class, I don't want to go on a rant on how much of a waste of time that class was for me because I'm quite familiar with the camera basics... So that's all I'm going to say :) and these shots were a couple favorites from one of the rare assignments that required using an actual camera.



Once we had to go to the MAC to take pictures. I had nightmarish recollections of my last digital photography course in high school. *shutters*
I took a picture similar to this one almost exactly a year ago. I enjoy the nostalgia and being able to see how my vision has changed since.

Abigale

Over spring break (Yes, I know, that was ages ago!) I visited my brother and his family in Winston-Salem, NC, where I had the privilege of taking pictures of my absolutely beautiful niece, their daughter.









Peek-A-Boo!

This was when Abby was getting tired and wanted to play with mom instead :)
Thanks David and Suzi, I miss you so much!

Josh

It's official, school is over and summer has begun!! And what a better way to celebrate than with a senior session?
Have students graduating in 2011? contact me! It's never too early for senior pictures :)

Other Projects; My Wanderings: Part 2

I haven't had the opportunity to edit anything that wasn't a portrait lately, so this was quite nice.

I was exploring the lower salt river yesterday, when I discovered this strange phenomenon...


I really wanted to touch one of the formations.... I think I'll go back tomorrow.





The rest are rather old pictures that I've just been able to get to,

^ My picture won "Nature" photo contest in our yearbook staff.




This is a "Bleeding Heart" I've never heard of these, but I wish I took this one home from NC.


Now, if you have followed my blog from the earlier days, I had a picture similar to this, here. I wanted to see how I have improved so I spent a couple hours today perfecting what I tried to do half a year ago. It was humbling to say the least :)

Thank you everyone for your support so far! Some one comes up to me every day with kind words, you have no idea how much you all mean to me :)