Football || Canon40D/EF28-135@50 | 1/100s | f4.5 | ISO1600 | Handheld

First let me state that I am a BYU fan. Some may say that I’m not a true fan because I enjoy watching Utah on occasion and even cheer them on (as I will be doing so for the Sugar bowl). But, recently Coach Whittingham did something that I thought was very classy. At Elder Wirthlin’s funeral, they said that the team would be wearing his initials on their helmet. Last saturday they invited the family up to practice for the unveiling of the helmets with the initials. I was invited but told “I was not to wear blue”. I had a great time taking pictures of the team at practice and am particularly pleased with this one.

Post processing done in Lightroom.

I was asked recently to do some Christmas family photos by my brother Tim and I like the way they turned out. For anyone who has tried to take a family photo with a little girl who wants nothing to do with sitting (let alone smiling) mad props to you. My daughter and one of her stuffed animals were critical in keeping her attention and happy.

If you’d like to see more of their photos they can be found in the new gallery section of my site (specifically the family and kids sections).

Light Painting || Canon 40D/Tokina12-24@14 | 30s | f8 | ISO100 | Tripod

This is from my trip to New Jersey. One of our stops was at Duke Farms. We were told that we were going to go walk the grounds at sunset and do some photography at the old hay barn . In my mind I was picturing an old wooden barn, this was nothing of the sort. The ruins were the stone remaining from the fire, and is now used to house several marble statues. We stayed quite late, experimenting with light painting. This one was done using a flashlight, a red gel, and a blue gel.

For those unaware of what light painting is, the idea is to leave the exposure open for a long time, and then paint with various lights what you’d like to show up in the photograph. So in this case, this is a white marble statue, painted with red and blue light.

Ankh at Philae || Canon10D/Tokina 12-24@12 | f4 | 1/180s | ISO100 | Handheld

One of the stops in Egypt was the temple complex of Philae. This complex was flooded frequently when a dam was constructed, and in order to preserve it, the entire temple complex was moved piece by piece over the course of three years (1977-1980) to an island at a higher altitude where it rests today.

I used a graduated neutral density filter horizontally to provide the shading on the front column.