Departed Avian

October 11th my wife and I drove out to one of my favorite spots to photograph: Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. On the north end of the Island there are some beautiful rocks lining the shore, and about a mile beyond that a tiny Bird Island. I was surprised to find that the water line has receded so much that I could walk out to the Bird Island.

The tiny Island was completely deserted and empty. Abandoned nests covered the ground and rocks. Millions of bones littered the ground. Remains of dead birds everywhere. It looked as though very few humans had ever actually been on the Island. It felt as though I was walking though someones abandoned home.

I went out to photograph a beautiful landscape and ended up photographing some rather dark images.

Another Gallery Show

Tomorrow(Friday,Oct 3rd) will be an artists reception for me, Travis Lovell, and Tyson Monson at the Covey Center for the Arts. The show will represent images from each of us on a 2 year photographic project on Utah Lake.

Provo River Project

I've decided to work on another personal project I have been thinking about for a while. It'll be a slow-going, every other weekend type of photo project. Here's one exposure I made this evening of a train bridge that crosses the Provo River. I used my Shen Hao 4x5, 90mm lens, Foma 100 film.

Redwood National Park

This past weekend my wife and I went on a long road trip to northern California to see the Redwoods. We then drove down the 101 to San Francisco. Here are a couple images I took while driving through the different groves. I used my Shen Hao 4x5 with Foma 100 film.

Up coming show

I have a up-coming show at the Wasatch Frame Shop gallery. The show will be up from September 2nd until 30th. There will be an artists reception on September 5th from 6-9pm.

Sawtooth Mountains

Here are a couple of images I took of the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. They were both taken with an 4x5" Shen Hao, using Tmax 100 film.

Hand-made Plate Camera

For the past month or so I've been building a plate camera to be able to learn how to do wet plate collodion and tintypes. I've finished building the camera and wanted to test it, so I cut down some Kodak Tmax 100 4x5 film and put it in front of the plate. The lens is a Plaubel and Co. F4.5 18cm. The format of the camera is a quarter plate (4" x 3 1/4"). The image is of another camera of mine, a Yashica C Twin Lens Reflex.

Jessica

I took these bridal shots of Jessi near Utah Lake. It was ridiculously windy and we even got a little rain on us, but we got some good shots and Jessi looks absolutely beautiful. These images were all taken using a Shen Hao 4x5 camera, 210mm lens, Kodak Tmax 100 film. Developed with stock D-76.

First 8x10 Shot

I very recently purchased an 8x10 field view camera. It's an Eastman No. 1. Built between 1901 and 1924. The lens on it is a Radar Anst. F4.5 in a Wollensak Betax No. 5 Shutter. This thing is an antique, but it works fine. Here is one of the first shots I took with it and then made a contact print.

Portraits at the Salt Flats

This past Sunday I went with a good friend of mine, Tavis Johnson to the Salt Flats. He was photographing a client of his and was kind enough to let me tag along and take a few pictures with my large format camera. The weather was perfect, the bride was beautiful, and the salt flats were salty.

Preview of LensWork #77

LensWork has a preview of issue #77 (the next issue). There are some sample pages of LensWork Extended containing some of my images:
http://enhanced.lenswork.com/previewpages/overviewcurrentissue.pdf

My Sister's Bridals Part 2

I took my sister back out to Utah Lake to do a few more large format bridal photos. I'm please with a lot of them. She's beautiful.

Two More Portraits of Ecuador

I had a couple of rolls of 120 that were only half shot. I finally finished one of them and processed it. Here are a couple more portraits for Ecuador. One is of an old beggar woman with crippled legs. The other of a older gentleman.

My Sister's Bridals

My youngest sister Betty Jo, is getting married this month. I took some bridal shots of her. They're a little outside of standard Utah wedding photography. I shot them near Utah Lake with my Shen Hao 4x5 camera and a 210mm lens. I used Kodak Tmax 100 film. I scanned them and added a Polaroid Type 55 border.

LensWork Extended

I recently submitted my American Biker project to LensWork Magazine. They have informed me that my portfolio will be published in the next issue (#77) of LensWork Extented. Which is a subscription DVD that contains additional portfolios and interviews. Brooks Jensen(the editor of LensWork) will be interviewing me next week and that will be included in the DVD.

LensWork is no longer available on newstands, but it can be purchased online at: www.lenswork.com.

Type 55 Polaroid - Utah Lake

One of my favorite films: Type 55 Polaroid, has been discontinued. I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on one more box of it. $90 for 20 sheets. Kind of expensive. Today I made one exposure of Utah Lake. I used a 10 stop Neutral Density filter to get my shutter speed up to about 1/2 hour. The image isn't amazing, but worth posting on the blog.


Utah Lake - Type 55 Polaroid - Shen Hao 4x5 camera, 90mm lens, 30mins @ F45

Yashica C - Twin Lens Reflex

A few years ago I bought an old Yashica C TLR camera. I only ran one roll of film through it and never printed any of them because of poor quality. Just today I was flipping through some old negatives and found them. I thought I'd scan them in just because. The quality is pretty low, but they have a unique look, which I really like. They are both of Utah Lake.

More Equador Portraits

Here are just a few more portraits from Ecuador I shot while volunteering with a non-profit foundation called FEVI.



Man weaving at center of the world - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens



Elderly Man - Quito Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens


Woman at the Elderly Center - Esmeraldas Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens


Woman at the Elderly Center - Esmeraldas Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens

Woman at the Elderly Center - Esmeraldas Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens




Woman Spinning - Center of the World - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens


Mops at the Basilica - Quito Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens

Portraits of Ecuador - Children

Rich or poor, it seems the children of the world for the most part are happy. I very much enjoyed photographing the kids playing soccer and trying my best to speak to them in my broken spanish. The foundation FEVI spends much of their attention helping the children of Ecuador, after all they are the future.


Young Boy No. - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Girl No. - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Boy No. 2 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Girl No. 2 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Boy No. 3 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Girl No. 3 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Two Boys - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.