Miles Daisher

Last year, upon visiting the in-laws in Twin-Falls Idaho, I love Idaho, I photographed a gentleman
jumping off the Perrine bridge.  It's legal to jump off bridges in Idaho -- another reason to love Idaho.
And Idahoians love their guns also -- but I digress... so -- while I was in Las Vegas, watching NBC's
Today show last week -- I saw this story of a guy from Idaho, parachuting in a boat -- go figure.  Long story short -- it's the same guy.  See the video below.

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On the strip of Las Vegas CityCenter is complete and I couldn't resist making this picture, of of my wife and her mother, in front of one of the massive 80 foot long 60 foot high white walls. 

Shot in color with the Canon SD780is and then convered to B/W using a LR preset from www.lifeindigitalfilm.com

Pete Stott @Stott and Scott Jarvie @Jarvie

I found Vegas a distracting place to make plans -- yet alone find a familiar face.  From class to class - or
running back to the show floor I would catch a glimpse of @Stott and @Jarvie.  Finally we sat down with the Smugmug owners to discuss our reactions to the constantly improving Smugmug services - that organization is great.  Thanks to @Jarvie for the invite.

Jerry Ghionis

Being associated with www.Pictage.com, and having Full Access status, had its perks.  I was able to sit in on numerious presentations from seasoned wedding photographers - one being - Jerry Ghionis.  Here he gestures some of his techniques.

HOMBRE

Past the fence of the office parking area, staring right back -- is Hombre !!!

Ronald McDonald House

A few collegues cornered me at the office and asked me to volunteer my photographic services to document the finished remodel of their efforts at the Salt Lake City Ronald McDonald House. 

This remodel was of only volunteer effort, supplies, and resources, and I was more then happy to be a part of the great things this organization adds to the community and families alike.

Pictagerazzi

On a whim -- I signed up to be considered for what Pictage is calling their "Pictagerazzi" for
the WPPI convention in Las Vegas next week.  Well -- as luck will have it -- I was chosen to be one
of 30 other photographers to photograph the event -- more can be seen at the link.  This should
be really cool.

http://pro.pictage.com/wppi/

RARE from Joel Sartore on Vimeo.

Eyes Left

A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR DINNER - VIDEO

Grinding Video

Welding at 65 Degrees

I had a great time going to San Jose visting with Brother Kurt and his wife Kathy.
Street shooting in S.F. and winding down with great dinners and some welding in-between.

Power Pole

Here's another from this last weekend -- for some reason I have a fastination with tags on
power poles... don't ask me why -- I guess I think they are a challenge.

Red in the Bokeh

Yesterday I really wanted to get out of the house -- but that meant I was a walker -- M had the jeep.  So I decided to take the 25 year-old 50mm 1.4 with me -- It's a flakey lens, and doesn't meter correctly past f4.0 but wide open I really like how it renders colors. 

This image was processed with Michael W. Gray's www.lifeindigitalfilm.com Lightroom preset - Fuji Velvia Curve.

He painstakenly takes old/new film stock -- shoots it -- and then creates preset profiles by scanning the shot film.

Chase Jarvis, commercial photographer based in Seattle, www.chasejarvis.com, and social media
pioneer gave away three seats to his paneled twitter conference in Park City at Sundance, last night; and I was one who Twittered fast enough to get an invite.

Chase is most notably known for his Nikon D90 launch video which went viral almost instantly upon release, and subsequently put Jarvis' name in the everyday vernacular.

His web page, Facebook friends and Twitter followers shows he's connected; and I was able to see some of that in Sundance as his guest at the Tweet House this past Sunday.

Follow him at @chaseJarvis

A SNOWSTORM SHOT

SMUGMUG INTRO FROM JARVIE