Friday, July 25, 2008

A Loss...


How sad. Last night i went on a hike up provo canyon with Annette and from our vantage point we could see the Bridalveil Falls Building that i hiked up to on a previous entry. I told her how much fun it was and what i hike it takes to get there and that i couldnt wait to go back up soon. The night went on and we eventually got hungry and as i was cooking dinner i got a call from by buddy kevin: "yea so, um, i was drivin down provo canyon and my sister said 'look, theres a fire' and sure as shit, the Bridalveil building was on fire". it sounded to surreal as we had just seen that building earlier that night so after we ate we went up the canyon to see for our selves and thats when it set it hard. that building is gone. it was such a mesmerizing sight. i have never been so bummed out and so drawn in before. as a purely visual experience it was amazing, as there was very little burning around the building other than chunks that had fallen off. but its still so strange to think that its gone. so i guess the next hike up will be to visit the remains... 

all is flux; nothing stays still.
~Heraclitus

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

On the streets of SLC




So, for my final project for my photography class we had to present 4-6 8x10's that had some type of theme. So i decided to challenge myself with a scary project. Portraits of random strangers. I am a pretty timid person by nature but i really wanted to over come that (i still have work to do) and i thought this would be a great way to start. So me and Tonja, a friend from work who recently purchased a Nikon D80, set out for Salt Lake. We were both a little nervous and walked around for quite a bit before asking our first stranger if we could take their picture. He said no. Damn it. Oh well, he was nice about it and had a reason: he was a security guard and told us that he couldn't be photographed in his work uniform for "security reasons". Any who, so we walked around the rest of the night asking most of the people we thought were interesting including the smiling homeless man named Bob whos pic you cant miss. I was more picky that Tonja of who we took pictures of, partly cus i was nervous and partly cus i had some specific qualities in mind. But it turned out to be a great experience that i want to do again very soon but with my digital (i was shooting film for my class) and we got some great images!