Happy Birthday Charlie Wray! San Francisco, CA. October 21, 2011.

Colt Bowden.
Utah County, UT. July, 2011.

Andy's birthday.

Salt Lake City, Utah. July, 2011.

San Francisco, California. April, 2011.

I have been going to SF a lot the last two years as I have recently made a lot of friends there. I finished laying out a zine of photos from those trips today. Hopefully, I'll be all done making copies tomorrow. These photos are not in the 'zine as I ran out of room and/or vertical shots didn't quite work with the layout.

An afternoon at Kimmie's house.

Spanish Fork, Utah. March, 2011.

On Robert Frank......

Robert Frank visited Salt Lake City sometime in 1956 while working on his seminal book, The Americans. The expanded edition (known as Robert Frank's The Americans: Looking In) shows all his contact sheets and I walked around downtown last year sometime looking for some of the things/places that were on his contact sheets from Salt Lake City.



Plate 54 in the original book (page 275 if you have the "Looking in" edition), shows this building. This is a famous building in Salt Lake City known as the McCune Mansion. Frank's photo was taken at dusk, while standing at the bottom of the steps. A sign that is no longer there is a key point in his photo.


The contact sheet shows a few pictures of this apartment building that is across the street from the McCune Mansion. There is also a picture of a man walking past the temple on the contact sheet, however, I was unable to locate him.

If you haven't seen The Americans, it's definitely worth checking out, whether you like photography or not, just to see what America looked like in the late 1950's.

If you live in Utah and have friends on a popular social networking website, you've probably already seen a million photos from the Festival of Colors (Holi). Well, now you've seen a million and five.

Salt Lake City, Utah. 2011.

Salt Lake City, UT. March, 2011.

Nephi and Jeremy.

Salt Lake City, Utah. March, 2011.

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. June 2011.

I hope for the best in Japan.

Twilite Lounge.

Salt Lake City, Utah. February, 2011.

Hotel Benson.

Portland, Oregon. February 2011.

Lightbar.

Portland, Oregon. February, 2011.

Tokyo, Japan. June 2010.

I hope things get better over there today.

ummmm.....

Salt Lake City, Utah. February, 2011.

Crutches. Salt Lake City Library, 2011.

I would like to state that I'm not a big fan of shooting photos of the less fortunate. I feel like it's a street photography cliche. I am not opposed to it if it has some greater context, but it generally doesn't. However, I am a big fan of Jesse Marlow's series of people with broken limbs. This is a inspired by that.

Antelope Island, Utah. February 2011.

For Weston: This trip to Antelope was last minute, otherwise, the xpan would've come and thanks for the kind words about the last post.

Antelope Island, Utah. February, 2011.