Monthly Archives: May 2009
Little Feet
Canon 40D * EF-50mm f/1.8 II * ISO 200 * 1/125 second * f/3.2
Violin Making School
Canon 40D * EF-24-105mm f/4.0L * ISO 200 * 1/500 second * f/7.1
Lately I’ve been taking different routes to work to break up the monotony of my morning commute. I’ve driven past the Violin Making School in downtown Salt Lake City before and have always wanted to stop and take some pictures of the mural wall on the side of the building. Whenever I’ve driven by the lighting hasn’t been ideal so I tell myself another day. Well, last week I drove past on my way to work and noticed that the morning sun was reflecting off a glass building just down the street onto the side of the building, the sun made the colors on the mural pop. I drove by a couple of times on different days and noticed that the sun would only light up the building from about 8:30 am to 8:45. I stopped on a day that I didn’t have any meetings and made sure I was there before 8:30 to get the optimal lighting.
On the front of the building there is a window where you can watch students carve and sand violins. One day I’d like to go back and photograph them working. If you want to check out the place they are located at 304 East 200 South downtown SLC.
Vintage Steam Locamotive
Canon 40D * EF-24-105mm f/4.0L * ISO 400 * 1/2000 second * f/5.6
In my previous post I talked visiting this train in Ogden Utah. Of all the shots I took that day this one turned out to be one of my favorites. I had a couple of seconds to capture this photo as the train was traveling down the tracks at 70 plus miles per hour.
Union Pacific Steam Locomotive No. 844
A couple of weeks ago I had an opportunity to go see the Union Pacific’s last steam engine that’s in production in Ogden Utah. The train was leaving Ogden heading to Nevada on a cross country journey. I met a local photog (Ann Torrence) there who had made friends with Jim by the time I arrived. He has photographed the train before and knew the route it was taking when it left Ogden. He let us tag along with him for a couple of hours. After the train left the station we all jumped in his car to see if we could get some more pictures of the train going over a local bridge. As we pulled up to the bridge we barely made it across the road when it sped by going 70+ miles an hour. Bill was determined to catch up and pass it so we all jumped in and headed to the last crossing before it headed over the causeway of the Salt Lake. I was able to capture an image of it speeding along at 70+ miles an hour with a large steam cloud that I will be posting later this week, it turns out that it’s one of my favorites of the day.
I’ve added some of my favorites photos below. You can check out my high resolution gallery here.
