lent

The people were nice and the light was nice and the music was great but for the life of me I couldn't find a good angle to shoot from inside. So I left. Taize Vespers at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, West Valley. Shot through the rainy glass doors from the outside in.

we thought winter was over. and then, one morning....

telefon kamera

Though late, I finally traded in my ancient flip phone for an iphone. This week I tried the hipstamatic and I find it astounding that you can point it at almost anything and get an interesting looking photo out of it. it's nice to shoot for fun again without having to carry around that big fat clunker I use for work. here's a few days worth...

granite hot springs for NYT

the only way to get to the springs near jackson, wyo. is to take a snowmobile, skis or dogs on a 10-mile trek. it was somewhere around -20 degrees out and the plastic buckles on my camera bag broke off when i tried to close it. duct tape crumbled into little pieces and i looked like a suicide bomber with camera batteries wrapped in pocket heaters strapped to various parts of my body. it was beautiful and magical and I only wish I would've had a chance to jump in the water...story here

DeChristopher trial + rally for NYT

belly galore

dancers on stage

refreshing to hear leaders of faith talk about immigrants as people, not as those green things with antennae that descend upon us from outer space, as politicians like to call them...

funding cuts deep

they have to cut money somewhere and once again those who are economically the most fragile and socially the least powerful will end up on the chopping block. federal funding for head start, below, and other social programs in utah currently is up in the air.

carving the owl quest

hs hoops

distracted
from game action
me

city library hula hoop

vietnamese new year hula hoop

florence welch for nyt

Drill Team Champs

exhausted.

Nicole Simoneau, 22, a junior at Utah State University, carries her son Kemper, 1, across campus during gymnastics practice in Logan, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. After having the child, Simoneau returned to competitive gymnastics soon after.

The Vietnamese Community in Utah is celebrating the Lunar New Year with a big festival. Emily Nguyen, 10, and other children hold up branches with flowers as they practice a dance they will be performing during the festival, at Lien Hoa Buddhist Temple in Taylorsville, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011.

rally for beau

A rally in support of Beau Babka who was charged with misusing public money while running for sheriff. Well, he filled up his car's gas tank using public money, so that would be $30, roughly...? Then Babka came and talked and everybody got emotional and you stand there and don't know what to think and in my opinion that's a good thing. There are at least two sides to nearly everything and it's good to be reminded of that.

aaaaand one more sundance

Chess grandmaster Alexander Shabalov plays chess with Andrew Roach, 8, of North Salt Lake, at the Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery in Park City, Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. The event was organized by the World Chess Hall of Fame and Museum to support the premiere of Bobby Fischer Against the World, during Sundance Film Festival.

heche

Anne Heche talks to the media before the premiere of her movie Cedar Rapids, at the Eccles Theater, during Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011.