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Winner of Doug Chinnery’s “Best Photo of 2009″ Competition

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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Patterns of Nature

One of my favorite images, Patterns of Nature, has one another competition (it’s first win was the sweepstakes prize at the 2009 Weber County Fair). It was chosen as the 1st place winner of Doug Chinnery’s “Best Photo of 2009″ Competition. I was honored to be chosen from among a great group of competitors. Here’s what Doug said about the image:

This image really moved us. It stood out as very different from most images entered by its focus on an intimate landscape. We loved the beautiful colours and strong use of the vertical white trunks of the Silver Birches contrasted against the fresh green of the foliage in the undergrowth, made perfect by the Dandelion heads breaking up the spread of green. This image was made with a keen eye for detail, great exposure control and compositional skills – an image to be proud of. I would love to see a large version of the image.

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Snowbasin Sunrise

Monday, November 3, 2008

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Snowbasin Sunrise
Canon 40D | Tamron 18-200mm | 1/320 sec | f/4.5 | ISO 200

I took this on my way to work this morning. Sometimes I want to shoot myself when I don’t have my camera with me, but luckily today WASN’T one of those times. Granted, I shouldn’t have put the mountains in the vertical middle of the shot, and I’m not a big fan of the ugly metal gate on the left, but oh well. If I had time to actually get out of the car and shoot on a tripod, it may have been better, but it’s not too bad as is…

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