Fall in Hobble Creek, 2009

Over the last few weeks Mushna and I have visited Hobble Creek to take advantage of the fall colors. Things have been busy so I haven't found time to process photos until recently.

These are from the first visit:







These are from the second trip:






Hobble Creek has cattle freely roaming around the canyon. On our second trip, they were herding the cattle down to a corral located toward the bottom of the canyon. While we were driving down, we had to navigate our way through the two herds they had separated the cattle into. Here is the first herd behind Mushna:



While driving down, we were waiting for a break in the first herd, so I started talking to one of the kids. She and her "partner", Clayson were only eight years old and they were moving a lot of cows. Here are some shots of the action:







I didn't realize it until I started processing photos and was looking at creating a set on Flickr for them, but Mushna and I actually visited Hobble Creek on October, 18th 2008 when we were dating. Our second trip up was on October 18th, 2009. Pretty crazy.

Image Used

I received an email the other day asking permission to use my shot of the Golden Eagle I took at Tracy Aviary a few weeks ago on a blog about Salt Lake City on about.com.

It was this shot:


Here is the link to the blog post:
http://saltlakecity.about.com/b/2009/09/29/tracy-aviary-free-during-uea-break.htm

India Fest, 2009

Last year one of my favorite experiences with photography was shooting India Fest at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. This was actually the night I realized I needed the 70-200 f/2.8L IS to get the shots I wanted because the 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS wasn't nearly fast enough. Most of the shots I actually got to turn out last year were taken as I was sitting right in front of the stage with my 50 mm f/1.8. You can find last year's photos here:

India Fest 2008

I didn't shoot as many photos as I did this year, but I'm happy with the shots I got. Here are a few of my favorites:













You can find the entire set by clicking here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoeyez99/sets/72157622407186840/

Utah Valley

Things have been busy... Hopefully they're calming down.

I took this shot a while ago. It's overlooking Utah Valley from the parking lot of the Y trail.

The Lazy Photographer

Things have been pretty busy lately. I received my Audio Kontrol 1 last week and was working on remixing "In This Twilight" using the master tracks Trent Reznor provided in the "Year Zero: Remixed" DVD. I use headphones (Sony MDR-V700's) for all my writing. Unfortunately the Audio Kontrol 1's headphone jack was faulty, so I'm in the process of exchanging it with Sweetwater. I've also been balancing a bunch of maintenance issues on my car with work and everything else so I haven't been in the mood to put a lot of miles on it. I'm really hoping those are out of the way now so we can get out and enjoy a weekend again.

Tonight I decided to get my flashes out. I've decided that I simply do not have enough room to do what I've been wanting to in regards to using the flashes for portraiture, so I decided to go smaller. Tonight I brought both flashes out and shot something simple, my little Holga 120N on the kitchen table. Unfortunately my space is limited there, to so I was forced to focus almost directly down on the camera (at least more vertical than I would have liked) so I didn't get my wife's laptop and other stuff on the table on the shot, too. It loses detail in the smaller image. Click to view it larger.



This shot is straight out of the camera. I did the standard sharpening in Adobe Camera Raw, but other than that, this is how the camera saw it.

I think I'll work on getting a cool shot of my Audio Kontrol 1 at some point next.

Bridal Veil Falls, Utah

Today we ran up to the scenic overlook and took a few photos of the falls.

Tracy Aviary, August 2009

We went out last weekend... We were planning on going to the zoo, but there was no parking available anywhere and, quite frankly, it's not the most photogenic, so fighting for a parking stall hardly seemed worth it. Continuing on the animal theme, we drove to Liberty Park and visited Tracy Aviary for a few minutes. While this isn't the most photogenic location either, it's much cheaper and I usually get a couple of decent shots. Here are the four keepers from this trip:





This guy was probably my favorite.

Every time I see these Golden Eagles, I feel like I'm less of a man and more a meal.