Day Forty Four - Street # 11

Quote of the Day: "Photography is a great excuse for seeing things you ordinary wouldn’t." - Chirstopher Beirne

Day Thirty Six - Street # 5

The first two photos were taken outside my friend Ray and LeeAnn's antique store, "The Timeless Attic", at 167 25th Street, Ogden UT.

The last four portraits are of Patrick & friend, Jose, Jack, and Sherrie, who were nice enough to allow me to take thier photo on 25th Street.

Quote of the Day: “Photography helps people to see.” - Berenice Abbott

Day Twenty Eight - More Fall Color

My co-workers were giving me a retirement luncheon today at Lucky Buffet at 1069 W. Riverdale Rd., Riverdale, UT. I got to Riverdale a little early so I went looking for my daily photo I found the first fall color to photograph on the grounds of Cherry Creek Apartments, at 1551 W Riverdale Rd., Riverdale, UT. On my way home today I stop at the drive thru to get a diet Pepsi at the Sinclair gas station, 710 Washington Blvd. and this is where I found the fall color for the second photo.

Quote of the Day: "To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." - Elliott Erwitt

McCools Parking Lot

On my way to my retirement luncheon something caught my eye in the parking lot of McCool's Public House, at 855 West. Heritage Park Blvd, Suite #3, Layton, UT. Above are the photos I took in the parking lot.

Twenty Five - Just Grass

On the hill just pass Smith's heading south on Harrison Blvd on the left side spotted some grass tuffs that looked like they would be fun to photograph. Made mental note and continued on to eat a late lunch at the new indian restuarant at 36th and Harrison Blvd. After lunch came back and took these photos.

Quote of the Day: "Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera." - Minor White

Day Twenty one - Fountain of Leaves

Found these leaves in a fountain in the court yard on the North side of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard at 2374 Grant Ave, Ogden UT.

Quote of the Day: "You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it." - Eliot Porter

Day Twenty - Reflective Eyes

While looking around the South side of Lindquist Field Monday I spotted a face being reflected in a window on the West side of a building at 218 24th Street, so today decided to see if I could get a photo I liked from the reflection.


Found these leaves on the wall of the parking garage on the North side of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard court yard at 2374 Grant Ave, Ogden UT.

Quote of the Day: "The two most engaging powers of [a photographer] are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." - W. Thackeray

Day Nineteen - Rainy Day Tuesday

There is something fascinating about finding droplets of rain on some object.

Quote of the Day: "It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. It is a gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment." - Bill Brandt - "Camera in London", The Focus Press, London 1948, p. 14

Day Seventeen - McKay-Dee Hospital Fall Color

Last Wensday went to an Ostomy Support Group meeting at the McKay-Dee Hospital Center at 4401 Harrison Blvd, Ogden UT, I noticed there was a lot of beautiful color. So I decide I better get over there today to get the color before it faded away or fell to the ground.

Quote of the day: 'Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns' - George Eliot

Day Sixteen - Gettin' My Daily

I got the tree leaves and flower at Evergreen Memorial Gardens, at 100 Monroe Blvd. Ogden, UT. I never know what I'm going to find there. On the East side there is a ditch that has a lot of thing to photograph around it. The architectural detail I found on Adam Ave., between 27th and 28th street. I know it looks pretty rough, but really like the texture, and the colors.

Day Fifteen - Fall Color Around Town

When I first started to do photograph, I read somewhere that the novice tried for grand vistas in there search for fall color, but the person who wrote the article suggested that you get up close and personal with the color your trying to photograph.

My online teacher Carol Leigh (see sidebar for links) in one of her classes taught us that if we moved just inches around the object we were photographing we could change the color of the background.

Both of these ideas I think have helped me get the kind of fall color that I'm after.

Lisl Dennis in her book, The Traveler's Eye", she quotes photojournalist Robert Capa who said "If your photographs aren't strong enough, you're not close enough". Lisl said, "The farther in I moved, the more control I had over the subject". Lisl said, Capa's statement further influenced her to "optical intimacy with her subject. "Optical intimacy", is one of the thing I feel that I am after in the items I photograph, and didn't know how to express it until Lisl put it into words.

The last photo in the group is my favorite photo, it is fun when you can get the background to match perfect with what you are trying to photograph.

Quote of the Day: 'Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.' - Albert Camus

Day Twelve - More Birds & Fall Color

To me there can never be too many bird photos, nor fall color photos.