Scenic Shots From The Timpanookie Trail

All of these are post processed, some more than others, I am still getting  used to how digital expresses an image c/w film. This have been altered to look decent on my monitor and to my eye. If you think maybe they are off a bit, let me know I will try again!

Another Mountain Goat!!

Got this bugger on the top of Mount Timpanogos today, made myself haul my 135mm up to the top just in case. Love that it turned out to be worth it.

And here is the northbound end of that Southbound goat.

Tear Down a Building......

My Bro. Phil alerted me to this building/wall the other day. There used to be a building called "The Grecian Gardens" that stood on this corner. It was recently torn down and this sign was behind it. I do wish they had taken more of the old handbills off of the wall.


This first picture was taken earlier in the afternoon with my 28mm


This with my 135mm, it is up above the pierce's sign, I think it is part of an old Coca Cola sign that has been painted over.

Later in the day with a Sigma 10-20 that I have borrowed for a few days. Different light, I was hoping for sunlight on the wall but this time of year the sun sets too far to the south. sigh.

Detail of color on the handbills. Interesting mismash of colors.

Temple Time.....

Went to the Jordan River Temple today for Stake Temple Day, decided to take a few pictures, really quite a pretty day for things all told. Nothing really dramatic but certainly nice in a postcard kind of way.

A really cool old building in SLC

Lauriann and I first saw this on our anniversary back in July, and I had the desire to go back and take more pictures. They just don't decorate buildings like they used to.

Yeah, I know flowers.....

The cool thing about flowers though is that they cannot run away from you, stick out their tongue, or whine that they don't want to pose for you any more.

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, so I decided to stop and smell the flowers. Look really, these didn't smell much at all.




I like the closed bud on this one, usually people take pictures of open ones, kinda fun to be different.

Saturday Farmers Market

Stopped to take something besides sunrises and flowers, loved the colors of the fruits and vegetables, had some issues with the brightness of the sun, but still liked what I got. All taken with my 28mm f3.5, mostly stopped down to f8.

Say What?

Went into a local store and had to wait a minute for my wife and the twins, I saw these two stickers on the door and wondered What the heck I was supposed to do?

Flowers at Ward Campout

I'm not a big "Lets go take pictures of Flowers!" kind of guy, but I just loved the backlighting of the thistle in down, and the color of the wildflowers. Maybe not the best technical shots ever, but I kinda liked them.

Fire On The Mountain!

Kinda Spectacular fire on the mountains to the East of the Salt Lake Valley. I came out of a movie theater when it was at it's peak, but still was pretty cool looking. Didn't have time to go closer if I had been able to, I could have gotten some actual flames...maybe...

Who Doesn't Like A Sunrise?

I have often seen this slanting ray of sunlight on my morning commute, I tried to capture it today but still don't think I have it yet. Will keep trying.

Black and White

Sometimes I get the time to go back and look at and/or manipulate photos. I kinda thought this would look a little better in Black and White. Kudos to my wife who actually took this shot!

Lens Lust

Found an excuse to go to a local camera shop (Inkley's, a Ritz affiliate) that stocks Pentax equipment. Wanted to pick up a step-up adapter, which is a thingy that allows you to put filters on a lens that are larger than the threads on the front of that lens. Saves you having to buy too many filters. Just buy one large enough for your largest lens then buy adapters to put it on all the smaller lenses.

Anyway, while there I looked at two wide angle lenses, the Pentax DA 10-17 fisheye, and the Sigma 10-20. I have lusted after the Sigma for awhile and I wanted to look at them both. They are both unique lenses and not really comparable despite the similiarity of their focal length. Here is what I thought, in no particular order:

Pentax DA 10-17 F3.5-4.5 Fisheye:

What a wild point of view! This lens focal length is equivalent to 15-26mm in film camera terms. The widest I had for my Canon was 20mm. And this lens is fisheye too which really creates a uniquely distorted field of view. It could be a fun lens to play with perspective. The feel is pretty good, not as heavy as I expected but heavier and more solid than the DA 18-55 "Kit" zoom. The zoom ring is light to turn and not particularly damped.

Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6:

What a BIG Solid chunk of lens. This thing is huge, and being an EX lens (Sigmas designation for "Pro" glass) this thing just feels well put together. Did I mention it was huge? It is really large in diameter... it feels......good! The zoom is MUCH more tight and takes more effort to move but it feels like if I bump it accidentally, it will stay put. This lens will definitely stay on my lust list. It will have to wait for lots of other things, but one day it will be bought and I think I will take some magnificent pictures with it.

Mother Natures Fireworks

Was going to try to shoot some Fireworks in South Jordan tonight, ended up in a bad position for that, but Mother Nature gave me something else to shoot instead.