kids

kids.kids.kids.kids.kids.kids.kids.i wonder sometimes if i'll ever want some of my own if i keep shooting almost exclusively kids assignments every day...
where is the substance? there's enough cute on youtube and twitter.

muaaaa. science fair.

this was actually pretty interesting. one kid did an experiment, sprouting beans with a cell phone right next to them. the beans hardly grew at all, while the ones without the phone grew just fine. it was kind of scary, i imagined my brain being microwaved for several hours every day. i had to call and tell micha immediately.

jiu-jitsu. kids fight.

the cop and his heli

feeling gray today

CAPITALism

my editors seem to have caught on to the fact that i live two minutes from the capitol now. I like their thinking. it saves me crazy amounts of gas and sometimes even makes for interesting photos...

liebe liebe sonne

got some rest in phoenix for a few days with the family and zee mann, did mostly nothing but count palm trees, which was perfect...

yumm-brains!

ms. rocky horror's photo shoot was a quick in- and - out in a rush with not a lot to work with but luckily the lady knew what she was doing. i mean i didn't have to tell her to look at the brains like they were delicious, uhm, tropical pineapples...sometimes it's luck and sometimes it's creativity or waiting for the moment to get the photo. but especially with portraits like this i feel like it mostly depends on whether the person in front of the camera is willing to open up when things have to be quick.

nightly

explorations from the homestead of terrygross

out there

after wendover few cars head south past the sign for ibapah, the goshute tribal headquarters 30 miles over. a lady with the health department called this one of the most frontier areas of the country, where clouds smother the mountaintops that hug the vast expanse of snake valley. huddled beyond dozens of miles of white salt flats there is a sense that this area of our young state is more untouched and left to breathe but also removed from the attention of those who direct funds, economic development and social services to its people.

we the people

the move to sl has me run up to the state's capitol for work more often these days...

kids scamper about on a cold february evening in sunset, utah, as the groundhog surrounded by tv media slowly lifted an eyelid to squint into the setting sun, therefore unknowlingly predicting six more weeks of winter from its high seat at the end of the extended arm of the mayor.

these girls spooked me a little, I wasn't prepared for this kind of drill team action and all I wanted to shoot photos of were their faces. but once their performance was over, they returned to normal, nice human beings...lucky for me so I could approach them to get their names without being eaten alive.

fairgrounds in winter

christmas in brigham.

fog

it's winter. fog floats in thick waves and a moisture hangs in the air that slowly creeps underneath all layers of clothes and sticks to the skin even until long after the cold is replaced with the warmth of a cozy room.

shooting swimming. i know there are ways to make it look cool but my photos just look like someone swimming in the water. like mediocre blah...on saturday, i got so distracted shooting other things that i almost forgot to face the pool and get photos for the paper. but then, it's shrunk to a size where they don't need 12 action shots anymore. which is nice. it's made shooting swimming actually fun.

fur

animal rights activists protested mink farming in morgan last week, where the worlds clashed of those whose livelihood depends on the trade and those who believe nothing is more important than preventing pain and killing of animals.

homegrown twilight

back again

for the third time this year i went to germany and caught a few glimpses along this trip that was like most times completely dedicated to the family and soaking up news of a life i left behind there years ago. only this time i was two people, which was so nice.