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Labyrinth Canyon River Trip

May 21st, 2009

Here are some pictures from the river trip I took with some friends at the end of April. We floated down Labyrinth Canyon on the Green River for four days. The paddling was very mellow for the most part and we all had a great time. I enjoyed having some time to take photographs in the desert!

On our fourth night we all took sun showers with our surplus water. Everyone was feeling relatively clean so I took a group portrait, dogs and all. We ate very well every day – that night we had grilled ahi tuna and pineapple over a green salad.

Tags: desert, Moab, River Trip, Utah
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April 1st At Snowbird

April 2nd, 2009

No fooling!Â My neighbor Lauren about to spray me with a foot of snow:

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Hola From Sayulita

March 22nd, 2009

Leah and I just got back from a vacation in Sayulita, Mexico.Â Sayulita is a great little surfing and fishing town about an hour north of Puerto Vallarta on the west coast.Â I wish we were still there enjoying the sun and sand!

I had fun capturing the details of this colorful place with my new point and shoot camera, a Sigma DP1.Â It’s a great little camera if you know your way around f-stops, shutter speeds, and ISO’s, and if you don’t mind zooming with your feet!

We subsisted almost entirely on fish burritos and margaritas.

We took surfing lessons – I got up on my first try, but we definitely looked better while we were practicing the stance on the beach.

Although I was on vacation I took my first wedding photograph of 2009!Â I’m always trying to stay sharp.

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Spring Skiing at Snowbird?

May 3rd, 2008

I took this YESTERDAY up at Snowbird. That’s right, May 1st. Apologies for the low-fi quality but I took it with my cell phone (and some drastic photoshop efforts). Although I have a ton of projects that I want to finish before wedding season gets underway for me, I couldn’t pass up one more big powder day. I ran into my friend Kristi and we took a few runs – this is her ripping through the foot and a half of classic Utah powder that fell the night before. Salt Lake City is such a good place to be. Leah and I went up again today to get some of the leftovers and skied un-tracked powder all morning. We had to quit a little early because I was second shooting at a beautiful wedding for a friend of mine – I’ll post those here in the next few days.

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Southern Utah Sampler

November 28th, 2007

A blog post is long overdue. It’s been a while, but it’s not because I don’t have anything to post – these are from a trip Leah and I took to southern Utah a few weeks ago. We checked out Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Escalante/Grand Staircase National Monument. This is a really spectacular state we live in! I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

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