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.