Spanish Fork Holi Festival... March 2013

In the spring there is a festival of good verses evil, known as Holi. It is a crazy fun great time to spend with family and see people from all over the world celebrate good vs evil by having some music, bonfires and the throwing of colors. If you get a chance to go make sure you do, its very fun and makes such a great family time. This year March 2013 my family went with a group of friends and had a lot of fun, we got some photos and saw some. While we were there I was able to get some crowd photos, go see if you are in some of them.

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Tacoma Hand Blown Glass and the Fisheye

I recently got a fisheye lens, this one specifically Rokinon 8mm F3.5 Fisheye.  Its a fully manual lens that is just fun to play with.  You have to set up the aperture and focal length like the old manual SLR camera, and at 8mm you really get some great distortion in your image(s).  I got the lens so I could capture some really big monuments at Monument Valley

see the full set here: Monument Valley and there abouts

This is the friendliest dog I have ever met. get your print of him here: Australian Shepherd

and some random Buildings

see the full set here: Utah State Capitol

and didn't think I would use it as much as I have but I have found that I really love it.  I've even done some portraits with them.

see the full set here: Nelson Family

Here are some photographs I made while I was in Tacoma, Washington this year.

there are more pictures here: Tacoma Glass and More

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Playtime:

Sharks and Reefs

While in Las Vegas you should check out the shark reef in the Mandalay Bay. It has one of the best Jellyfish tanks. see a full set of photos here:
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The Great... Great Salt Lake... Buffalo!

Pictures from Memorial day (I'm a bit late to post them) but here they are:





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New camera coming...

I have been obsessed with film camera's for about a year now, and have a number of 35mm camera's I've been using.  I just won a TLR (twin lens reflex) camera from ebay, I hope it works :).  The new camera has a 120 film size back so I ordered some film from the internet it's really the only place to get film much anymore, I know there are some local shops that carry it but 5 rolls of film for $19.00 is pretty good (I think).  I need to start doing my own film development that is what I need to get next.  I wanted to try a few different types of film, so I went to photoshop and have been playing around with a few filters.  I know they are digital representations of what the qualities of the film that makes it unique, but I settled on the Kodak 400 T-Max film, if the post processing is any indication of the output from the film I'm pretty excited.  When I shoot some film and scan I'll post the film photos so we can have a little comparison :) Here are my digital test shots.

Right out of the camera, nice and smooth

After applying the Kodak 400 T-Max processing

Split view for easier comparison

Weird Al Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic is a fantastic performer!  I saw him about a million years ago and was hooked for life.  With the release of his new album Alpocalypse (go buy it, it's awesome) he has a 2 month tour going on right now (link).  I got tickets for my family which include me my wife and our three kids (ages: 7, 6, 4).  The kids have been listening to the music for a few weeks now and pretty much know the lyrics by heart.  The concert was amazing Al hit all the hits from the new album and a bunch of hits from previous albums.  The best part was watching my 4 year old bouncing up and down singing the songs at the top of his lungs, then at the end of the show they wanted to go to the next stop of the tour.  Al if you ever see this, I just want to say thanks for such a great concert and show, and you now have three life long fan's in my kids!

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Up up and away in a Beautiful Balloon

Sandy City in Utah hosted a Hot Air Balloon festival on August 13, 2011.  I have wanted to take photos of hot air balloons for a long time, but have had to be other places for the last few years (busy busy busy).  This year I was able to attend and get some of my personal photography skills sharpened with a subject I have never shot before.  I really had a good time and got some good pictures. There wasn't any clouds so there was very little reference when the balloons were in the air. I decided to switch focus and capture some small details and  some balloon groupings, here you go (you can see the full set of photos here StevePetersonPhotography.com):