Our Nation's Snowy Capitol

more snow pics

Back On A Macro Kick

DJ bought me the beautiful flowers, they are huge and the most amazing color, and incredible texture! One night, they started to "Sweat" out of the middle... thanks Dad for your advise!

Finally a decent storm...

Some classic sledding

Some drip, drip, drips

Home sweet frozen home.

(the snow knocked the power out all night and half the next day, kind of fun to have to rough it for a little while.

We stayed pretty cozy in our blankets and sweaters, but it was a bit colder than we were used to indoors:)

Peter's Canyon

I went to Peter's canyon on Saturday, it is a 6 mile hike with no trail, just a walk up a river bed over large boulders.

Here the the sunrise on the cliffs reflected over a stone in the river.

A tower reflected in a puddle.

More reflections.

The narrows of the canyon.

The last of my cowboy kick

One more variation using artistic/sketch filters on the background layer while leaving the separated cowboy foreground layer relatively untouched. (Photoshop elements)

The (cropped) originals I started with.

Kind of an interesting story. I was just leaving antelope island driving across the causeway back to town and this huge herd of cattle was being led down the way by these real classic looking cowboys, the one in white is a for real Marlboro man (look close he's even got a dwindling cigarette in his fingers). I was stuck for a good extra 40 minutes on that 7 mile causeway (which ended up making me very late for a church meeting).

Classic as even Utah is, I don't think that is something you see every day. On my way out to the island several hours earlier I had seen these groups of miraged figures that I thought could have been men, animals or trees way out on the lake bed towards one of the smaller islands. I also saw 3 guys and a couple dogs trudging across the lake bed that day.

I figure some old rancher had a herd of cattle out there, and he finally decided to take advantage of the extreme low water and bring his cattle back to the mainland.

What ever it was it was pretty cool....that place never did cease to amaze me.

crazy things can happen during a late night card game after a long day

This might hang crooked in a faded frame in an old great uncle's house in rural New Mexico...

...but I still like it.

(...or maybe that's why I like it)

In my mind I'm gone to Carolina...

Wild wild....

...West.

  "I love to see the temple, I'm going there some day"

Soft lit snow

The differences in refraction creates subtle varieties in both representation and tone.

Nik Software Package

Here are a few - okay, a lot - of images. the first is the before, which in some cases was edited in either iphoto or adobe RAW. And the second image is after i processed it with Nik Software.

Flowers and leaves near Workman Creek AZ.

The upper 20 feet of the large falls at Workman Creek AZ.

Ice near Hellen Hunt Falls on a photo day with Dad.

Hibiscus in the back yard, with an ant. I thought the original did not bring out the primary subject enough, the red all washed together. But slightly changing the hue really separated the background.

Leaf and lichen on a log in Workman Creek AZ. We are going to blow this one up and hang it on the wall. It is one of Tia's favorites.

Graffiti Falls on another great photo session with Dad.

Zion with my Sam and fam.

Flowers in Workman Creek.

Colors in Workman Creek, Sam style.

Workman Creek upper falls.

This is an old one from Arches near the end of the trail to Delicate Arch.