Mystic Hot Springs

I took Ashley to a crazy hippy-owned hot springs in the middle of Utah an early birthday present. Good times in ridiculously hot water.

Sweet Light

I got distracted by some sweet light at a Salt Lake Bee's baseball game tonight. So, I spent a few innings making pictures of spectators in the evening light.

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Wine illustrations

Recently, I have had a few assignments to illustrate various stories for the Food section of The Tribune. The two that I have enjoyed most dealt with wine stories. The fist story was on how screw cap wine bottles are becoming more popular, even with expensive wines, because cork is becoming expensive and there is no risk of cork contamination with the screw top bottles. The second story is similar, but on how boxed wines are becoming more popular with outdoor enthusiasts because glass is easy to break when hiking and each box is equal to 4 bottles of wine.

For both of these illustrations, I chose to light paint the bottles and boxes. This technique, as discussed in an earlier post is basically a long exposure ~30 seconds, where the main light used to illuminate the subject is a flashlight. For these photos, I used a combination of flashlights as well as an off camera Canon strobe (580ex) triggered manually to light the various elements of the photo.

Enjoy.

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3 on 3

The Great Salt Lake

I went on a little feature hunt yesterday and ended up at the famous Salt Lake of Utah. it is funny. Everyone outside of Utah thinks everyone who lives in Utah always hang out at the Lake. It is thought to be like a resort destination with beautiful beaches and nice salty water. In reality, the lake stinks like rotting eggs, and is the home to million of tiny brine flies. It is true that the lake is salty, usually around 15% salinity, but it is one of those places most people visit once or twice in their life time and that is plenty.

So, I waded out in the waste deep salt later and photographed some tourists from Germany and Switzerland floating in the water.

Geekfest FunPix

Here are a few "fun pix" of from Geekfest.

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Geekfest Chicago

I spent the past weekend in Chicago at GeekFest 2006. It was great to see so many old friends while making many new ones.
Thanks to all the photo geeks for the great dose of inspiration. It was refreshing to make pictures just for me.

Here are some snaps from around the city.

Bob Foster

Chess Cat

Dude with Peace

Singing Sea Men

The Red Line

Back Alley Christ

Urchin on Sea

Look 'dat Grill

Boat n' Legs

Plastic Baby

Freshly Squeezed

Street Strut

Mini City

Drop Kick Dog

Pirate Legs

Wrigley

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Portraits of Pride

Sunday was Salt Lake's annual LGBT Pride parade and festival. With a simple white backdrop I shot about 65 portraits in three hours. The collage was published in today's Tribune.

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