The Photowalking Utah gang went out the Salt Flats to photograph the Utah Rocket Club annual Hellfire rocket shoot. It was a blast. We,the older kids and I, went out and got there just in time to see Sgt. Pepper fly. It went 5 miles up (yes they had to get FAA permission) and it was amazing. We had a really great time the kids played in the salt like it was snow and we got to see how fast the Expedition goes (95 mph that was floored for a couple of miles). I am putting more of my pictures on the Photowalkingutah.com group site if you are interested.
200mm f/5.6 1/1000s
Aug 082010
Aug 042010
I was done for the day and actually asleep. However, something woke me up, and I remembered I had not taken a picture. So at a 11:45pm I set up the tripod and got a picture of the night sky. The “UFO” is an airplane going acrossed the sky.
26mm f/8 60s
Aug 032010
I don’t know why when I saw this stream I focused right on the plant growing in the middle. It has a fairly precarious position. Surrounded by danger and in a place that could be gone at any minute, but that is where it is and that is where it is thriving.
Aug 022010
You may know it as pull apart bread. I know it as monkey bread. We had some left over caramel sauce that I had made and my wife came up with a great way to use it. It was really really good. We plowed through the whole thing in less than a half hour.
Jul 152010
I “discovered” these awesome hashbrowns. OK by discovered I mean, they were using them at girls camp. They are pretty incredible. Great tasting, easy to make, and super easy to store.
Jul 112010
I have been playing with this concept for a while. I wanted both the motion from a “long shutter speed, and the sharpness from a frozen moment in time. This was done using both of my lights the spider light allowed for the movement and the flash froze the movement.
200mm f/22 1/10s
This is another shot that I will have to revisit, but I need to figure out what it is missing (more actually what is there that I need to remove).
Jun 212010
Gifts are hard, especially when you are a kid. That being said I got the best present ever from my daughter for fathers day. I hope she doesn’t mind me posting it here. She hid it under my pillow so that I would find it and be suprise. The thoughtfulness and effort really made this gift truly meaningful.
50mm f/11 1/80s
As a two-fer here is a picture that she took with my setup. Tripod with the camera pointed straight down using my collapsible silver (the gold color is actually the incandescent lights reflecting WB was set to Daylight) reflector as a background with light coming from the windows in the front room.
Jun 162010
This is a blatant rip-off of a picture for CSI Miami. I really liked the original though. So I thought I would try my own spin. I figured why not, CSI Miami is just a rip-off of CSI right.
200mm f/11 1/125s flash fired
This is a rare event. This picture is exactly how I wanted it to turn out.
This was the last thing I needed to do to get my lawnmower back in service. It’s always fun to use the angle grinder. The picture did not come out as clean as I would have liked, and I am still trying to figure out what to do differently.
200mm f/5.6 1/15 ISO 800
It was a hard shot to run since I was trying to trip the shutter and handle an angle grinder at the same time. Thank heavens for cable release, delayed mirror lock-up and tripods.
Jun 072010
Death by chocolate makes no sense to me, who wants that? Then again, desert is not my favorite part of the meal. However, if you put out cookies from My Dough Girl I will change my tune. No lie, this lady makes the greatest cookies on the face of the planet. You might of heard of her from her recent troubles with a dough boy corporate bully. As a result of this there will be a name change in the future, but as long as she makes cookies like the Margo and the Vivian (pictured below) I will be going into this cookie nirvana for a long time to come.
50mm f/22 1/60s
