Conference Saturday Drive..... In The Rain.... Of Course.

This first image was taken with my Pentax SMC-135mm, the colors are interesting, they day was interesting, it was pouring, very difficult weather to shoot in. Most of my time was spent under an umbrella with my cheapie Quantaray 28mm (Which I used for the rest of the images here.) I put it on so that my more expensive lenses would not get wet/killed.

One day... weather sealed lenses to go with my weather sealed camera body... sigh.

These were all taken up Millcreek Canyon east of Salt Lake City, and just south of Interstate 80.

I loved the trees marching off into the distance, fading into the clouds, and rain.

The Quantaray may not be the sharpest lens, but it does all right close up.

Lauriann and I just wondered at the carpeting of leaves in the lower canyon, this is not the most artistic shot, but it is a nice memory of the scene.

Good/Bad Polarizer

Shot the first one with my Pentax 135mm without polarizer, then the second with, and the exposure adjusted to compensate for the lost light. I had forgotten that I had turned up the contrast and some other settings just for fun prior to that, I think it made the second one a little gaudy don't you?

More Color from Butterfield Canyon

All of these were shot with my Polarizing filter on.

Pentax 50mm Pentax 50mm
Pentax 50mm
Pentax 28mm

Fall Colors in Butterfield Canyon

Taken with Quantaray 28mm
Also with Quantaray
Pentax 135mm
also Pentax 135mm

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.