Birds

I love this time of year around northern Utah.  There's plenty of opportunities to find birds to photograph.  Here's a collection I've found over the past few weeks in various places.

Red Foxes

Over the past couple of weeks, I've had the opportunity to photograph some red foxes.  Always a good time!

Food Fight

For a long time, I've wanted to get together with my friend, Lynn to shoot.  He's an incredibly talented wildlife photographer and I've enjoyed his work for a long time.  Well, today we finally managed to get together.  We spent the day wandering Farmington Bay and Antelope Island.  While we didn't see many eagles, we did find lots to shoot, including these Harriers fighting over lunch.

Stop Motion

A while back, my son and I decided it would be fun to shoot a Lego stop motion video.  So, over Christmas break, we gave it a whirl.  

We spent a total of 18 hours shooting the images, and then several hours on the processing and edits.  It was a fun project and we learned some things that we'll apply to the next one.

Sam

This is Sam.  She goes by Sam, Sami, or Samantha.  She's a pretty fantastic kid.  If an instrument has strings on it, she'll figure out how to make music with it. She's a senior this year, so that means our days of high school orchestra concerts are getting numbered.  Last night was her Christmas concert. 

Oh yeah, she swims too.

Shooting While Shooting

This morning, I went shooting (the other kind) with some friends.  We hauled a pile of melons and squashes with us for something to shoot at.  I figured it was a good opportunity to do some of the other kind of shooting.

A Quick Trip to Farmington Bay

I recently had the new 100-400mm lens added to my collection so I felt like it was a good excuse to make a quick trip to Farmington to see what I could see.  If you live in Utah, you know that our weather has been a bit soggy for the past couple of weeks.  This day was no different.  I did manage to get out for a few minutes between downpours and captured a few good images.  I can't wait to spend more time with this fantastic lens!

For the next images, I added the 1.4x Teleconverter to give me a little more reach.

A Few Orchids

Last week, I was in Texas for a few days for work.  As a part of the class we were teaching, we spent some time at the Shangri La Arboretum in Orange.  While we were primarily there to shoot wildlife, we got to spend a few minutes in the orchid greenhouse.  I didn't have a lot of time to shoot the blossoms, but did manage to grab a few shots.

The Sanders Family

I don't do a lot of portrait work, but I do get to photograph my little sister and her family every once in a while.  I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to spend a bit of time with them, wandering around Ogden, UT.  Here's a few of my favorites.