I love photography! Pretty cliché I know. There is just so much to learn and explore. So many things to try. But the main reason I love photography is this "Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second." - Marc Riboud
I am a portrait and wedding photographer based in Cedar City Utah. I also love landscape photography, but every great landscape I encounter, I can't help but think how much better the shot would be if I stuck a person in it.
The Mill Flat wildfire spread over to New Harmony yesterday. The wind was fairly calm and this is the scene the sun set to.
This shot above is a composite of 6 images looking from the South to the West from Cedar City. The setting sun put on a spectacular show. The billowing smoke, in the bottom left of the frame, turned some amazing colors as the sun lit it up. By the next morning that smoke had engulfed Cedar City. It was so thick you could barely see the nearby mountains.
Dead grass and sunflowers make awesome backdrops. These are some photographs from a recent photoshoot I did with two cute little kids. They were really fun to photograph. Whenever I photograph kids, I always think about just how special the photos will be as time goes on. Life moves at such a fast pace. I am so glad we can freeze moments in time with a camera. I love capturing their little expressions and personalities.
Yum… Cheerios! Look at those cute little teeth.
There are those little teeth again.
As I was going through these images, it started to feel like a stop motion video. I decided to turn it into a little video, the entire shoot condensed to under two minutes.
I consider myself more of a portrait photographer, but I will never pass up some good landscapes. Last weekend I went on a four day ATV trip on the Paiute ATV trail system. We camped at Big John’s Flat and rode hard for four days. It is absolutely beautiful up there. I am particularly fond of the landscape once you get above the tree line, about 11,000 feet. This is mountain goat country.
The wildflowers were amazing. They were in bloom everywhere. We spent a whole morning photographing wildflowers. Okay, it was more than just a whole morning. It was a blast. I found 31 distinct types of wildflowers. The wildflower shoot was actually a competition between my dad and I. The objective was to see who get get photographs of the most wildflowers of different types. He won, with 35.
The entire trip was a lot of fun. Lots of beautiful landscape. The last day we visited a 60 foot waterfall. We weren’t sure what the shooting conditions would be like when we got there, but lucky for us, the entire waterfall was in the shade… perfect.
And last of all, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do some portraits while we were in such a beautiful location. I had my boys with me the first day and they always make good subjects:)
He’s eating a rock in case you are wondering.
I am not a country fan by any means. In fact, I think you might find 1 or 2 country songs in my 4,000+ iTunes library, and those songs came from soundtracks. On the other hand, I won’t pass up a fun photography opportunity. My wife and I went to visit family in Emery County this last weekend and it just so happened that the county fair was going on. They managed to book Emerson Drive to do a live concert. It was free, so what the heck, I went. I had my camera with me of course (it never leaves my side in case you were wondering). So, it looked like an opportunity for me to shoot some pics.
As the concert started, I walked up to the fence that was holding back fans from the stage and started taking some pictures. I happened to stand right behind the sheriff, who was just on the other side of the fence. He turned around, saw my camera, and said “do you want to come in here?” I’m not going to turn down that kind of offer, so I went in. I got to stand a few inches away from the band the whole concert and take pictures. I had a blast. Music is always better live, so I was able to bare the country for a while:) One observation, the last concert I went to was Muse, and Muse was 10x louder, maybe even more than that. I wore ear plugs at the Muse concert and we were not really close to the stage. The Emerson Drive concert, I didn’t even come away with ringing ears and I was right next to the speakers the entire time. Anyway, it was fun, despite not being a country music fan.
Here is a slideshow of all of my photos.
My wife and I wanted to do something special for her nephew who is really into little league baseball. He is a pretty good little ball player. We thought it would be cool to make him some personal baseball cards with his photo and stats on them. We made him get in his uniform and had a fun little photo shoot.
We waited until as late in the afternoon as we could, but needed to head back to Cedar City, a 3 hour drive. We ended up doing the photoshoot when the sun was still pretty harsh, but with the sun to his back and high speed sync fill flash in the front, we made the best of it.
The next shot is the one we chose for the baseball card. He plays several positions, but his favorite is pitcher.
The shots turned out great and we are excited to give him the cards. Reminded me of my baseball days. The little league and Babe Ruth years were the best.
Lynsie - August 12, 2009 - 10:45 am
That’s awesome, Parker! Did the band notice you and ask for your info? Neat photos!
Ashley - August 14, 2009 - 3:31 pm
Awesome shots Park. You just need a tag that says PRESS around your neck!
Emilie - August 23, 2009 - 6:42 pm
That guy in the cowboy hat needs that picture of him with the lighting/shadow…..so neat!