Holiday Portraits

These come from Logan, UT, where Hayley, my most willing and most important, free model donned the cliche Santa hat for a few pictures.

Colorado

Heidi's friends in Colorado were generous enough to allow me to take pictures of their beautiful daughter in their home. Mom's decorating made the pictures of Baby much easier!

Lost

I took this in Blackfoot, Idaho at an elementary school. That's me doing the dumpster diving, in case you didn't recognize my receding hairline.

I have a feeling I'm going to have to do a lot more shooting like this if I'm going to make it through the dark winter!

Happy Birthday, Buddy!

My Little Dude turned three yesterday. His little personality brings so much color to our lives.

My Beautiful Boy

Liam was my test subject for lighting at the Buhler shoot.

Hayley

My sister-in-law Hayley agreed to help me with my most recent quest of figuring out the mysteries of the Canon Speedlite. I'm getting closer, but still have some issues to figure out before I feel comfortable shooting with them.

Hayley was such a sport and did a great job.

Business and Pleasure

I found this ratty old house just South of our project in Malad, ID. It's the perfect kind of subject for HDR: lots of fine detail, large tonal ranges, and tons of color.

The Pepsi bottles are sitting exactly like I found them. In fact, it looked like sharp edges from the broken tops had been dulled by time.

I've take some heat on this one because of the bright highlights behind the bottle tops. Is it too distracting or does it pull the eye to the subject?

Comments appreciated.

Man, I'm a slacker! It's difficult to shoot, process, print, post on forums and blog all the pictures that I'd love to do. Nevertheless, here are a few of my favorites from the last couple of weeks.






This is Logan's first day of school! I'm so proud of my little buddy! He's such a beautiful boy. Smart, kind and extremely intelligent. He's my Hero.
















Then there's this one:



London is our little Sour Patch kid, and proof that there is opposition in all things! He is the family trouble maker and prankster, but he's also the sweetest dang kid I've ever met. I live for his Londie-Bear hugs.

And, the Beautiful Baby...



I don't know how you deny a little face like this! He's got such a purity to him. It's so disappointing to me when, for some reason, my boys stop looking me in the eyes, and it's nice to have that back in Liam. There's none of the pretense or discomfort that would come if you looked you neighbor in the eyes for 5 minutes straight. Just honesty.

A couple weeks ago I spent a Thursday night tooling around Salt Lake. I drove through the industrial district and ended up at the capital.

Walkin' on Top

Sunday night we went to the top of Butterfield Canyon behind the Kennecot Copper mine. It was all I could do to keep the kids stich-free and shoot at the same time. I'll post more as I get them processed.

Cache Valley Cruise-In

It's been awhile since I posted any pics, but better late than never I guess.

Here are a couple from the cache valley cruise in. Click on the pics for larger versions.

Las Vegas

These are some from the Vegas trip.

Most ended up in Black and White. I didn't bring the tripod, so I shot high ISO and the noise made the color versions difficult.

This is a picture of the Las Vegas City Center project. It's amazing how huge the place is. I probably shot this from a half mile away.

Lady Liberty from New York, New York











































From the tunnel at Balley's. This couple caught my eye.






























I liked the sign on this building. It's obvious that someone is trying to push them out. You can see how the monorail and casinos have gone up all around them.






























The last two are from the water show at the Bellagio.

Minneapolis

Here are a few from my recent trip to Minneapolis.

These first two are from the Westminister Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis. I thought we were out of luck when we went and found the doors locked, but a custodian let us in and turned all the lights on for us. The church is gorgeous!

























































Besides being a good pilot, Chris is very cutting edge model! The color in this was all messed up from the stained glass, so I went B&W to salvage it.

























These kids playing at Lake Minnetonka were great! They were having a ball doing absolutely nothing by the water.

Charles W. Nibley

This is from the Logan Cemetery across from the USU housing. With hundreds of students surrounding this place, you can imagine that the cops watch it pretty closely at night. I wasn't in here more than 45 seconds before I got spotlighted. So, I did what every good citizen would do...I parked across the street and walked in.

I painted the headstone and the tree with a flashlight to experiment. Unfortunately, this is the only shot I got off before being spooked out by another car that drove in and parked nearby.

Mountain Stream

This is another HDR shot from the trip with the kids yesterday.

Boys Night Out

Mom finally got a much-needed break tonight, so while she was out the Boys and I went shooting! My penance for packing the boys around the forest was dinner at Burger King, a place that, according to Logan, does not serve boogers.

There Is A God

Another from the Great Salt Lake shoot with Dave. I loved the light of this doorway and the detail inside the building.

Lake Ball HDR

Dave and I stopped at the Great Salt Lake on the way home from our Winnemucca trip on Saturday. Lots of good pics at the burnt out building off I-80.

Pony Express Ride

Dave, Dan and I rode part of the Pony Express trail today, About 120 mi in all. It was about 45 degrees, so not the most comfortable ride, but it was great time.

There were several places I wanted to stop for pics, but we were a little pressed to get home so as not to incur the wrath of our our wives.

More pictures from the ride can be found here:
http://lincolnpalmer.smugmug.com/gallery/4660590_ZYrk6

UrbEx

The family and I went hunting for photos after work today. I'm really intrigued with this building and would love to get in!

Oregon Beaches

This is an older picture from the Oregon Vacation last year. The Dudes were instant beach bums, so we spent every moment we could there.

I spent some time working in the new version of Aperture last night. I chose this particular image because I was having noise issues with files from Aperture 1.5 that had been migrated to 2.0.

Easter Gentlemen

Despite the immeasurable flaws of their father, these boys continue to grow and make me more proud than I ever thought I could be.

London Charles, a.k.a., "Little Dude"

















































Logan David, a.k.a, "Logie Bear"