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.