Monthly Archives: March 2012

Photo Roundup: Route 66, Grand Canyon, a few other places

Monument Valley, just north of the Arizona/Utah border.

800-year-old cliff dwell­ings at Navajo National Monument, Arizona.

Lake Powell, outside Page, Arizona.

Obligatory Horshoe Bend photo, outside Page, Arizona.

 

Grand Canyon gift shop.

The over­look tower at Grand Canyon’s east viewpoint.

Bright Angel trail, Grand Canyon.

Bright Angel trail, Grand Canyon.

Bright Angel trail, Grand Canyon.

Bright Angel trail, Grand Canyon.

Bright Angel trail, Grand Canyon.

Sunset on the south rim.

Laura and I had a nice creepy walk in the woods to find the rim around mid­night for some long-exposure tripod shots.

We get our kicks in Williams Arizona.

Williams.

Viewpoint at Meteor Crater.

Oatman, Arizona.

Oatman.

The last little bit of Route 66 passing through the Black Mountains on the edge of the Arizona/California border.

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Days 8 and 9-ish: Landscape Roundup!

Just east of Capitol Reef National Park on HWY 12.

The land­scapes of Southern Utah are com­pletely blowing our minds. So much so that we’re actu­ally getting burned-out on them. You look out the window and see a scene that would leave you speech­less any­where else in the world. But here, it’s like “meh.”

Anyway, we’re pulling out of Moab this morning, heading south through Monument Valley, and we need to check out of our motel right away, so here’s a dump of photos.

Peace out!
Chris

Hoover Dam, tilt-shifted.

Hoover Dam (photo by Laura).

Red Rocks in Lake Mead park.

Just west of Zion National Park.

Climbers in Zion.

Zion.

Zion.

Laura at Zion National Park.

Zion moun­tains, tilt-shifted.

Just west of the Bryce Canyon junction.

Outside Bryce Canyon.

Bryce Canyon.

Hwy 12 in the middle of Southern Utah.

Outside Capitol Reef.

Outside Capitol Reef.

Outside Capitol Reef.

East of Capitol reef.

East of Capitol reef.

East of Capitol reef.

East of Capitol reef.

Outside of Green River, Utah.

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Vegas to rusted-out old trucks

How could we not stop when we saw a tree on the way to Zion National Park covered with shoes!

The road trip takes us to numer­ous new places every day. In fact, when I look through my photos I can’t remem­ber if it was yes­ter­day or today. Thank good­ness all the photos have dates, and thank good­ness for this “travel diary”.

Chris enjoy­ing his first drink — free drink — at a Vegas casino.

Need I say more?

Chris having a jolly good time on the “old Vegas Strip” during the instructor shoot out on the first day of Genesis.

Photographers prac­ti­cing light­ing at Genesis.

Allie, a lovely model who atten­ded the work­shop. Photographer (and one of the instruct­ors) Spenser Boerup, taught us how to improve our light­ing . He is a master at it. This is how I decided to pose and light her, of course she’s abso­lutely gor­geous so it’s nearly impossible to get a bad photo.

Looking lovely again. Thanks to Genesis I can’t wait to get home and work with models and lighting!

Some instruct­ors and a student hanging out in a mansion during the cri­tique session of the workshop.

More models who atten­ded the work­shop. This lovely married couple, Laura and Jon, have a strong musical con­nec­tion so we pho­to­graphed them playing the grande piano.

Probably one of the most import­ant men at the pho­to­graphy work­shop, Chef Josh, drink­ing a well deserved glass of wine the last evening of Genesis.

One of the man­sions that housed the par­ti­cip­ates of the Genesis pho­to­graphy workshop.

And so we left Vegas, the Genesis Workshop and the Mansions behind to embark on a journey of natural land­scapes that have you repeatedly saying, “Wow!” and “That’s awesome.” The last few days have really tested my bank of adjectives.

My first time playing with our new lens, a tilt shift.

Amid a land­scape of dry arid bushes and red sand, unbe­liev­ingly there was a lake. (I’m pretty sure it’s man made.)

It’s a rusted-out truck...just like I said, from Vegas to Rusted-Out Trucks.

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Day 7: End of Genesis

Our last day included a little shoot­ing exper­i­ment­a­tion with pho­to­graph­ers Mel and Jeff Mansfield. These photos of Jon and Laura were part of that.

After things wound down for good, the major­ity of our 50-person group hit the strip for one last night on the town. Thankfully Katie Merkle here took charge and helped get us united with the other group.

I took the chance to shoot a little (slightly drunk) street photography.

Vegas woman.

Laura and our buddy Joel.

Some of the gang.

Naveed and Darren.

Emily cutting up the rug, Vegas dive bar style.

Gumbi!

Common sights.

Amy Dale!

A little late night photo shoot. I can’t remem­ber if Naveed or Brad shot this...

Laura, under the glass foyer of the Bellagio.

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Days 5–6: More images from Vegas

A little hands-on shoot­ing time with the Hoffers. This was kind of a mock engage­ment shoot, but it was also kinda real. The couple pic­tured here got engaged on day one, in front of all of us. It was pretty romantic, and epic, and rad.

Writing is hard, so I’m going to crap out and just share some more images from the work­shop we just finished.

Laura and I are cur­rently at Bryce Canyon National Park. The scenery we drove through yes­ter­day was as gor­geous as it was varied. More on that later. Just want to thank every­one check­ing out the blog while we’re away. We love your comments.

Peace Out,
Chris

Laura, looking lovely. That fellow with the reflector on our left is our new buddy Travis from Tucson.

Joel and Emily, all sweet and in love. Crazy kids.

Tony Hoffer, who normal towers over every one at 6’4″ or so, isn’t afraid to get low for the shot.

Group posing with Sam Hassas.

Group posing with Sam Hassas.

Think of it like a game of Tetris.”

Sometimes it’s best to show rather than tell...

Amy Dale!

Our buddy Amer, not sad in real life.

We could see the Luxor pyramid’s light beam from our court­yard at the work­shop mansions.

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