backlit

the original Utah state flag on display during a presser at the capitol. it had little tears in the silk but the white embroidered bees were still flying. bzzzzzzzzzzz....

ghostly girl

At the capitol. she got up and floated away.

micha shaves

emergency session at 1 am because the beard had started to grow out the window and covered the house like ivy...

found in the back of the closet

I got stuck clicking myself into old photo archives and ejected the hard drive feeling a little weird. i guess i expected to look at my first school paper assignments and realize that i've grown at least somewhat in the three years since. instead, i wonder if all i've learned are a few nifty tricks and names to methods I did instinctively, such as layers or using light, as in the photos below. I remember feeling unable to tell what exactly made a good photo, or why i shot certain frames. but being thrown into the same situations, I would probably still shoot many similar photos as back then when i just had a little carefree dance with my camera. it feels odd, in a way that progression happened maybe on a more superficial level than I had imagined or maybe that all i've increased is the rate at which the 'better' photos enter the camera. it makes me feel crummy, that's for sure...i thought i'd share to see if anyone knows what i'm talking about.

syracuse won

at the girls hoops state championship.

our guard dog.
purrs and yawns.
and eats you alive if you're not careful!

light sources

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.