It Is A New Year

Seems like I have slipped on posting new stuff here. Well with the new year and all maybe I should make a resolution to.........wait no....I am not really into that whole thing. For the most part I think I should do things because I either need to or want to and I should start no matter what time of the year it is. Not to say anything against anyone who does do them because ultimately making a choice to start doing something that improves ones quality of life is a good thing and if the start of a new year is something that works for you then that is great and you should definitely do it.
One thing that is nice about the new year is that it is a good time frame to look over to see what all was accomplished in the last year and set goals for the next year. For me that is slightly different than resolutions which are usually about making some type of change in your life, where this is more goal setting to build upon certain things I already do (maybe this makes a lot more sense in my head but hey I do photography not writing) . One thing for me is I can look back across the last year and see that I have had the opportunity to do much more portrait photography than in previous years and my goal for this year would be to do much much more than the last year. There are several other things I need to work on and get better at doing as life moves forward but I will not bore you with all that.....at the moment.

So all that talk about doing portraits this last year and the first photos I am going to put up this year are Architectural. The Architect I used to work for designed this building  and wants some photos of it so I went out the other evening to take a look and take a few pictures of it. Theses were taken just after the sun went behind the mountain, so there is still a lot of light in the sky and it also provides for nice even lighting.

So there you have it my first blog post of 2012!

Bryan And Bailey

The other day Bryan and I went over by Rancho San Rafael to see if any of the trees had some fall colors left and to try and do some photography and video. Usually Bryan is my subject for trying different things with portrait photography but since we had the kids with us and he had Bailey I took the opportunity to do some different portraits of the two of them together. The grove of trees we were in provided a lot of filtered light making it nicer to take photographs in. These are just a few of the ones that I took of the two of them together.

Steep Mountain Canyon

This is a view up the canyon in the Desatoya Mountains that Beth and I hiked a few weeks back. It was a very scenic canyon With Aspen trees in areas, a creek running down it and these steep rocky outcroppings. We would like to go back sometime and hike further up into the area. There is also another trail just south of this one that we would like to check out more.

Snowy Hike

Beth and I went out the other day to central Nevada to see if we could fill my tag, however we could not find any deer.While we did not find any deer we did enjoy the hiking we did in the area we were in. The mountains were covered in a couple inches of snow and the views were really nice. One canyon we hiked up had aspens that were on the tail end of their fall color but the colors against the white snow made a nice contrast. These are just a couple of the images I took that day while we were out.

Fall Colors

Been pretty busy dealing with sick kids around here but I was able to get out last Sunday morning for a bit to photograph some fall colors. For these I went up into the Dog Valley area where I knew there were some decent Aspen groves. I am hoping I will be able to get out some more before all the leaves are gone.

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Our church does a community service project each year where they get the different Life Groups (home fellowship groups) from the church to sign up to clean up trash from different areas along the highways here in town and the different parks. This year the focus was on Pyramid highway and the parks in the Sparks area. My morning was spent driving around to a few of the different groups to get photos for the church to use. At a few of the spots I took a photo of the trash bags to try and show that aspect and every time I did I kept thinking the people driving by must think I am crazy taking photos of trash bags. You never know though, the bright orange might make for some nice color splash in the living room! 

Last Chance Creek

This is shot up Last Chance Creek that feeds into Frenchmen Lake. Took this while I was out on a walk with the kids.