Went canyoneering with some friends over the weekend, but we got shut down early by a rainstorm which made a nice backdrop for our Subaru enabled escape:
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Teton Aerials
The only artwork above my office desk is a small print from one of my greatest inpirations, Bradford Washburn, whose accomplishments spanned the fields of photography, mountaineering, cartography, and science (making him an instant hero in my book . However, he is perhaps best known for his richly-toned black & white aerial images from the great mountain ranges [...]
Rock Canyon overlook
Drove up behind Squaw Peak this evening to see the fall colors, but ended up responding to something else. Mainly, I realized how much I miss the mountains above Utah Valley. Of course, there was some color, too.
Quickie test shoot
Needed some gritty/muddy running shots for a quick add to my portfolio, so I called up my friend Courtney, a former Cytomax™ athlete who apparently specializes in modeling from the knees down . Although we’d just done a climb/run up Mt. Superior the morning before, Courtney always seems to be up for more pain and [...]
Wasatch Powderkeg 2009
The Wasatch Powderkeg is a ski-mountaineering race that covers nearly 6,000′ vertical feet of climbing and skiing. That is, skiers start from the bottom of Alta ski resort and ‘skin’ (i.e. hike on skis) nearly 2,000′ to the top before racing back down. Repeated 4 times on 3 different peaks. The top racers often finish in [...]
Spiral Jetty
Travelled out to the Great Salt Lake last weekend to see Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’. Being my first visit (not counting the times I’ve flown over it), it was only natural that I first see it and photograph it at night. That is, I seem to have a penchant for first visiting landmark locations while at [...]