Thursday, April 29, 2010

Story Telling

For our final assignment we had to take a series of 3-5 pictures that told a story...


Have you heard of the Weeping Widow in Spanish Fork Cemetery?

Legend has it that her husband and child were killed, and if you go to her grave at midnight on specific nights of the year you can hear and see the statue of her crying.

I have two things I have to say about this:
1) I never managed to get there on the right night cuz I never saw/heard it..
2) The headstones at the foot of her statue don't even fit with the story.
BUT....
It's an urban legend that I grew up with (big shout out here to Crazy Nora as well) so the memories of believing are better anyway.... =D

Anyway- I chose to do this as my final (the last is the Weeping Widow):





Sunday, April 25, 2010

Denise ROCKS!!!

Did you know that my wonderful sister graduated yesterday from BYU? She is a smart cookie that one.
We had to be there at 7 to get a good seat, and believe it or not I was on time- THAT'S how much I love her.

She will kill me if I post too many pics so here are a couple...
*on a side note, I think she looks really cute both the pics here and the ones not here*
(Oh- and they're grainy because I had to use a really high ISO setting on my camera because they didn't have the lights on!
Why didn't they have the lights on, you ask... I was wondering the same thing.



WAHOO!! Congrats class of 2010!!


Denise with her two cute kids


Denise and our Dad











It was a good graduation. However, I would strongly suggest that maybe cut out the 3 minute introduction for the person giving the opening prayer and the 3 minute introduction for the person giving the closing prayer (seriously, not exaggerating here!).

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Studio Composite

Okay, for this assignment we each had to pick a product (I went with Simply Limeade cuz I love the stuff), take it into the studio, shoot it, then use other backgrounds ect.. in Photoshop (grrr....) to make it look like a print ad.
I hate this enough that I almost didn't post it here, but decided I would anyway... It's always better to use your learning mistakes to give others a good laugh..right?



I used this one


I actually have a couple more, but cannot seem to get them to pull up for some odd reason...(I'm a little worried about my computer).

So.. there ya go, and before you laugh too hard- try it yourself (if you're not familiar with Photoshop)... it's harder then it looks.

Monday, April 19, 2010

SPRING!!!!
...that's all I have to say.
Thank you very much.
=D

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Lehman Caves

Last Sunday my family all got together to go through Lehman Caves in Nevada. Fun!

Our tour was scheduled for 9:30...anyone see a problem with that?
1-It's a 3 hour drive to get there
2-It's an AM tour that you cannot be late for
3-It's MY family (it's not like I picked up my late habit all on my lonesome people)

I was a little worried- truth be told, I think that my parents were too. However, WE ARE AMAZING!!!
I feel like it should be documented somewhere for posterity folks....
(if you're standing you may want to sit for this...)


THE ENTIRE STOCK CLAN WAS NOT ONLY ON TIME TO SOMETHING BUT WE WERE EARLY!!!!

I know, I know- I have just shattered your reality, but stay with me folks... I have pics to show:



Almost the entire Stock clan (sans Dawney-I was taking the picture, Parker- he was sick- poor little guy, Gary- who was sitting with Parker in the car (good Dad!),-and Cooper- who made fuss in the cave so we left him there... ha ha ha)



The Mountain that covers the Cave



Listening to our guide (Scott) tell us about Lehman Caves



Parker at the entrance



Steps in the Music room (pretty tall). At first I thought it was called this because it looks like the pipes of an organ- but they actually used to hit the different formations with a hammer and they made musical notes! As you can imagine, it damaged some of the formations over the years so they no longer do that.



Maddie- gotta love those eyes!



more from The Music room


I liked this little heart along the way



The Gothic Cathedral room



Kim and Hunter on some steps leading into the Lodge room



Soda straws (hollow)


While we were listening to Scott tell us more about he cave, Hunter stood right under a drip



This is the hallway leading up from the Lodge room to the great outdoors



Sandra



Shane and Nan looking like they are trying to figure something out..



Richard couldn't wait for lunch to be set up so he snagged a bag of chips- yes we all saw you! ;0)



Sierra (who is an amazing photographer's assistant btw)


Saydie Boo- look at that smile!


Maddie- always willing to pose


Hunter, Sierra, and Brooklyn goffin' off


Hunter and Brianne


Corbin loves Cheezy Chips!!


I still have a few more pictures to post, I'll post them later on... :)

Friday, April 2, 2010

So, there's this tree...



I found a tree by the Provo Temple, and I just love the way it looks when used in HDR.



I think it's the contrast of the white and red with the clouds and blue sky behind.




You CANNOT tell me that this doesn't give you a bit of spring fever...
=D


*sigh*

now we just have to make it through the rest of these stupid spring snow storms...



Good luck, friends... :o)