Tha Capitol with Beckanne and Kathryn

I was able to shoot with two more amazing dancers from Ballet West a few weeks ago. I love working with those dancers, they can do pretty amazing things. These two girls are fairly new to Ballet West. Kathryn has been here for two years in Ballet West II and Beckanne for one. Both girls will be returning next year as part of Ballet Wests core. So that means we'll have plenty more opportunities to take photos.
We needed an indoor location because it was snowing the day we took photos. We ended up going to the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake. I love how the photos turned out.

Photos

So lately I havn't had many great ideas for photos. I really like to show interaction between people and the environment we are shooting in when taking photos. The last couple of months I have been lacking in the ideas area. I think that is where I struggle the most as an artist.
I have also been wanting to do some traveling. If I could find a way to make enough money from photos durring a trip to Europe to pay for Candee and I to go that would be ideal. The questions is how do I do that?
I've been looking at a lot of photos by travel photographers and just love what they are doing. Scanlans and Art Wolfe are a few of my favorites lately.
We have been watching some travel shows on tv lately and it really makes me want to get out there again and see more of the world. With my summers off and Candee working seven on and seven off we could have time for some cool trips. Maybe I'll have to start with Southern Utah this summer. We have also been thinking about going some where this summer before we have any kids. It could be our last chance for a while.

Old Places

Yesterday I went out to take some photos of a few old abandoned houses I had seen when driving around. The two that I saw had been wrecked pretty bad by people stripping the copper pipes out of them to sell. I didn't find anything worth photographing in those places so I took a few back roads home that I had never dirven before. I ended up finding three more abandoned houses and one old barn that was full of old crap. It was pretty cool in the barn, the other houses were not that impresive though. I wanted to focus on textures, colors, and lines when looking for photos yesterday and thought a few of my photos turned out pretty good. Here are a few of my favorites.

Madeline

Lst week Madeline and I went out for some photos. She really like the costume she had for her last show and wanted a few photos in it. We ended up shooting inside the U of U Library because it was so cold outside. We walked all around and found some pretty cool spots for photos. Here are a few of my favorites.

I forgot to post these

Over the summer I had the chance to go out to the Salt Flats a few times with dancers and once with a model named Mellanie. The Salt Flats is a pretty amazing place to take photos. The lighting can be pretty incredible and the sky just fantastic. The day Mellanie and I went out there was a little breeze that turned into some massive wind gusts. It was pretty wild for about an hour but we were lucky and the wind calmed down enough for us to get some great photos as the sun was going down.
I was a big slacker about posting over the summer. I thought it was time I posted these. Mellanie was awesome to work with and had a ton of great ideas. Here are a few of my favorite photos from our shoot.

Late night laundry!

Over the summer my friend Nichol and I went out to an all night laundry mat for some photos. I thought that I had lost some photos but last week I was cleening out some photos on my harddrive and found the missing folder. I was pretty excited at how they turned out. Nichol and I get together for photos about once a year and always have some exciting results.
You can see more of Nichol in her gallery here.

Ballet West Nutcracker

I was pretty excited when Ballet West asked if I could look through my photos as soon as the Nutcracker rehearsal was over, they needed 8 awesome photos becuase the New York Times wanted to run one of them with an article about the company.

I rushed home and spent a solid hour looking through photos picking my favorites. I found 70 or so that I really liked and started to work edting them so Ballet West could have them in the morning for approval.

I was pretty excited to see the photo that the New York Times ran. Here is a link to the article about Ballet West and a few other photos from the show that I really liked.

This is the photo that ran in the New York Times

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/the-nutcracker-chronicles-in-the-land-of-snow/