Photo on New West

My photo that I called missing parts and featured on my blog previously is the feature photo today on the mountain west oriented blog "New West".

So here is the same photo that is in the blog but done in black and white instead. The photo was taken in the yard of the Heber Valley Railroad back on September 19th.

Making the Escape

Making the Escape
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Last Saturday night, Photowalking Utah got together for another excellent photowalk, this one taking place in the Old Greektown area of Salt Lake City which is just west of the main part of downtown.

We walked past the Intermodal Hub then took some pictures at one of the old buildings that is soon supposed to give way to a new hotel. One of our group volunteered to play model so she got up into one of the windows of the abandoned building and did some poses.

This photo was taken at 400 ISO using flash to keep the shutter speed from getting too low.

Sandy TRAX Crossing

Sandy TRAX Crossing
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Here is another one of the pictures I took Thursday night. I put the camera on the tri-pod, metered off a couple of points to get a good idea on how long of an exposure and then used the car headlights to add a little more lighting.

Ghost TRAX

Ghost TRAX
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Last night I drove my wife and a friend to a class they are attending and decided to do some photography while I was waiting for them to get out.

As you can tell, I have been practicing my night shots for the last few weeks so I figured last night would be another great opportunity. I went to the TRAX crossing at 8680 South in Sandy which is just a block from where we used to live and took some pictures.

The lights you see in the foreground belong to my car.

Desert

Dirt over Mudd
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

When we were up in Logan my niece and her new husband made us a wonderful dinner and desert.

Since there will be a Photowalking Utah Mini-Clinic on taking pictures of food so I decided to take a shot of the lovely desert my niece made.

Not to make excuses about the quality of the picture, but I was sitting in a camp chair and could not move easily so I took a picture at the angle that was available to me.

Main Street in Logan

Main Street in Logan
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Here is one last photo that I took on Main Street in Logan. The photo is looking from the visitor's center toward the heart of downtown.

Jordan Peace Gardens "America"

Jordan Peace Gardens America
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Another shot from the Jordan Peace Garden taken last Friday.

In Need of Repair

Jordan Peace Gardens
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

On Friday I had some time to kill so what else did I do but go out and take some pictures.

I decided to stop at the Jordan Peace Gardens to take some pictures. This is only the third time I have ever been to the gardens so I do not have a lot of photos from there.

This is one of the first structures you encounter when you walk into the garden area. As you can see from the photograph the building needs some repairs (in fact several statures where showing signs of recent vandalism).

This photo is a difficult one because you have details that you want featured in the shadows with bright sunlight surrounding them. To help with the shadow areas I set my flash to minimum to use as fill. This allowed the details in the shadows but did not cause other areas to get blown out.

Union Station at sunrise

Union Station at sunrise
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

As I mentioned yesterday, my purpose for stopping off in Ogden was to get a picture of Union Station at sunrise. I have many pictures of the building but none of them when the sun new day glow is shining on the building.

So here is the final product. The angle was a compromise since the sun would shine into the windows at every other angle that I tried.

Trying a different perspective

Ex-Rio Grand Tunnel Motor
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Well I went a few days without showing a picture of a train but here is one that I took last Saturday but have been waiting to show.

I took this photo up in Ogden, Utah at Union Station which is home to a railway museum. The museum has several pieces of equipment to the south of the station that I have show photos of in the past.

On Saturday I stopped at Union Station to get some pictures of the station at sunrise and noticed that they had a new locomotive so I went and took a picture.

This is a former Denver, Rio Grande & Western locomotive that is referred to as a tunnel motor. If you look at the back of the locomotive you will notice vents near the bottom of the carbody. Normally a locomotive will have vents near the top of the locomotive but both Rio Grande and Southern Pacific experience overheating problems so the tunnel motor was born to prevent those issues.

In this shot I tried to do something different from the normal wedgie shot so I lowered the legs on my tripod to their lowest setting which gives this different perspective of the locomotive.

Logan Clock at Night

Logan Clock
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Another shot that I took while up in Logan last Saturday.

This clock sits on the main drag in downtown Logan. It was this clock that caught my eye and caused me to go around the block and take pictures that night.

When I first started taking pictures I didn't even notice that part of the neon was not working but thought the picture was still worth it.