A Taste of the Past

SO...for those of you that don't know, I served a mission in South Africa. I think this is where my passion and love for photography began. I had a companion who had a VERY old SLR camera, you know, the ones that you crank and wind and unwind yourself, where you set your own shutter speed, apature and speed of film...all...manually. I LOVED that camera. I had a blast. Unfortunately, it had some a few problems, like the apature wouldn't close when I took the picture, so for those of you who know camera's, when I thought I was shooting on an f5.6 or f11, I was really shooting on about an f1.4. So you can imagine my overexposed and VERY shallow depth of field shots. Anyways, enough of the mumbo jumbo talk...I believe Africa will make ANYONE a great photographer. My dream is to go back with my Nikon and take literally thousands of pictures. But here are just a few pictures from when I first began in photography. These were all developed and then scanned in, so the quality isnt the best. But enjoy!

My Beautiful Wife!

Just a few extra's.

Here are just a few pictures I've taken recently. The bottom one is of a tree farm used for paper close to our house in Star.

Starry Starry Night

The other night, the stars were beautiful and I wanted to try to capture a shot of them. I only had my 50 mm lens, so if you were to hold out a ruler up to the sky, it's only about a 4"x4" section of the sky. I set the camera on a little plastic table, and faced it up towards the stars. This shot was about a 30 minute exposure.

Golden Geese

A few weeks ago, we were in Logan again with my Mom visiting our Grandfather on his farm. The first day, I got to try out Mom's 70-200 mm lens. I had a blast taking pictures of the countless geese in the corn fields behind Grandpa's house. Here are just a few samples.

I'm Coming Back!!!

So in the mess and craziness of moving to Boise, I haven't had the opportunity to put any pictures on the blog. So I just wanted to let you know that pictures will be coming very soon. My wife and I just got back from a trip to Logan and I'll be posting some of the pictures from there very soon! Thanks so much!

Photo Courtesy of Andrew Porter!

By the way, I dont know what I'm pointing at, but what you can't see is the river 10 feet below me that I almost fell in more than once trying to stand on this unstable metal structure.