The Announcement

Beautiful Baby Bradshaw

Taken 9/10/11 and 9/14/11 In Williamsburg, VA with my new 50 mm 1.8 lens. Baby Bradshaw was about 10 days old & 14 days old :)

Catara Design

I had a friend ask me to do a logo design for her new interior design business. Here are the samples I came up with and the one she chose. These were all done in Photoshop, as I am still without Illustrator. It made it a little more difficult to get designs out of my head and onto the screen, but I had a lot of fun.

Happy Graduation!

Photo Contest Entries

Black Kettle | 6/11/11 | 5:02 pm | Ashton, Idaho | f/14 | 1/125 sec | Nikon D3100

Since this photo is unedited, I didn't do anything to it except crop the right side off. When I tried to add saturation or contrast, it just took away from the detail, so I left it unedited. Black Kettle needs no alterations :)

I entered this in the Photographic Society contest "Endurance" Unedited on 14 June . The contest is school sponsored and was one of three for the semester. I chose this contest because I felt like I had a couple of photos that fit the contest theme. The Mountain Man tradition has endured many years, and at this rendezvous in Ashton, Idaho, men and women came together to celebrate the history. They sold goods, had traditional food, and participated in archery and shooting activities.

Dancer | 5/31/11 | 7:54 pm | Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.0 | 1/100 sec | Nikon D3100

This photo was taken in a ballet studio that had terrible lighting, but my sister wanted to make a flyer for the lessons she teaches. I could do nothing in camera to improve it. So in Photoshop I smoothed out her face, selected her outline, then added a smart filter to the background. Then to make it an 8x10 I increased the canvas size and used content aware scale to increase the left side. Then I had to select the straight line that was created of the barre and floor line and rotate it. I used the clone stamp tool to touch it up. A lot of work.

I entered this as an "Edited" photo in the same "Endurance" contest sponsored by Photographics Society on campus. I thought it fit in well with the theme because it takes a lot of endurance to become a ballet dancer, and to dance in general.

Here is the website for the contest:

http://byuiphotographics.blogspot.com/p/contest-intructions.html

A Photo Excursion Part II: Mountain Man Retreat

Adam throwing the tomahawk. Serious business!


Brandon got one in!


Some cool garb a real mountain man let us try on.


This guy was shooting his rifle when we arrived. We had to trudge through some swampy land to get to him!


The very long drive to Ashton by way of an extensive gravel road was at least gorgeous. All week it rained, but we got lucky with great weather all day.





He didn't quite seem to fit in...


Who will buy?...



The kids sat and made several art projects with beads and sticks.


Caryn Esplin and Black kettle chat about his advertising posters


Julie is probably the most photographed member of our group.



These photos were taken in Ashton, Idaho at a Mountain Man Rendezvous. Several class members carpooled up, and we followed in our car. It was fun to get some interesting portrait experience, and the kids enjoyed watching archery, tomahawk throwing, crafting, and walking through the little 'booths' which sold cool beads, hats and other goods.

A Photo Excursion Part I: RuInn