Sheep Camp

I was FINALLY able to get out on a meaningful shoot tonight, thanks to my wife's and children's patient cooperation. I've been in a no-shooting funk for weeks, so it was nice to break the photo fast!

I found this place a few months ago on a bike ride and have been itching to get back ever since. I manually blended three differently-exposed images in photoshop to reach the end result. It was a refreshing, albeit labor-intesive departure from overused HDR software.

Kiyosaki

I've been trying to find some opportunities to practice some product photos, so this last week gave me a couple opportunities.

We spent last week at a seminar with Robert Kiyosaki on how to raise capital. The seminar was incredible, and I'd recommend any of Robert's materials to anyone looking to increase the education about money.

In addition to the always enlighten education, Robert unveiled two new things. His new book "The Real Book of Real Estate" was one. Congratulations are in order for my dad who wrote three of the chapters.

The second was a new Rich Dad branded silver coin produced by the Old Glory Mint, which we own. It was a great week! I found some black acrylic for the coin shot at a place called Delvie's Plastics in Salt Lake. They were GREAT people, and I'd also recommend them to any photogs looking for something similar. Affordable, fast, and friendly, unlike GE Polymershapes. (Don't go there.)

Merlin

While prepping the Bonanza for our flight to Scottsdale, Chris and I ran out on the runway at South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan to catch a couple pics of planes taking off. This one just happened to be his instructor who flew to Scottsdale the same day. This is a Swearingen Merlin, 1975.

BreAna had her 27th birthday on April 30th. Chris and Jenn were nice enough to watch the kids while we went to nice dinner at The Roof and took some photos at the Bountiful Temple where we were married.

Happy Birthday, Bre!

Sleepover

Brooke and Jesse went to Wendover a week ago and left Reese for a Sleepover, so she ended up as my latest photographic victim.

BreAna was ecstatic to say the least!

Another Trip to Vegas

So I survived one more trip to Sin City this last week. I'm there once a year for a real estate exchange conference, so I always make it a point to get out and shoot a couple of the nights I'm there.

For this first one, Chris held a bare 580ex II to camera left, triggered by a MicroSync.

Hard Rock Hotel....sort of self explanatory.

The Paris.
We wanted to go to the top, but were too cheap to pay the $12.
I asked the guy guarding the gate if we could get some clear shots, and he said there's a fence...
No thanks.

Loved this fountain at The Paris

For this one we had to put the camera and tripod on the other side of the faller fence atop the footbridge. The wind was blowing like crazy, so Chris held the strap through the fence, just to make sure my camera didn't end up as the next victim of Vegas stupidity.

Brookie

Well, here's little Brookie, the girl I used to carry around on my shoulders as a five year old. She's graduating from high school!