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/

Underwater

I purchased an underwater case a few months ago and had really been wanting to shoot with it. I shot with a model over the summer named Mellanie and she said she would be interested in an underwater shoot so we set up a day for it.
It was a little different getting into the groove of shooting underwater. The case is bulky and I had a hard time feeling the buttons. But, after about 30 minutes I got into the swing of things and I was pretty happy with what we came out with in the end.
I know Mellanie also felt a little off at first trying to be graceful and beautiful while holding her breath and 10 feet under water. She was really great and now that we both have the hang of things a little better I think we'll try it again soon.






We took a few photos on the water before we went under. This one reminds me of a resort add photo, it was one of my favorites.

silhouettes at the salt flats

I try to make a trip out to the salt flats at least once a summer. This summer I had a lot of dancers that wanted to come. I like having a lot go out there for photos, it's a unique place and a lot of dancers never get to go out there.
I really love how the clouds looked out there on this trip. Last year there really wasn't much as far as clouds so it was a little less exciting for photos. But the clouds this trip were just amazing and helped make some of these photos really pop.
Seeing the sun rays blasting through the clouds I took the opportunity to create some pretty unique silhouette. We were all really pleased at how these turned out.