Conflicted

Conflicted, originally uploaded by calanan.

Allen St at Delaware Ave
Buffalo, NY

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

.s is for schlep.

.s is for schlep., originally uploaded by calanan.

Main St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Photowalking Utah Event #6

Update: 10 March 2008: Jeremy Hall updated his blog with his video of the event...check it out! FYI, I'm at 6:30 in the video below:

Photowalking Utah Event #6, originally uploaded by calanan.

Moran Eye Center
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Photowalking Utah Meetup, Saturday 23 February 2008

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

Part of Photowalking Utah Event #6 - Lab photography at the Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

It is time to announce our sixth Utah Photowalk which will be held on February 23rd at the John A. Moran Eye Center from 9am-1pm. This photowalk will be an indoor event with some opportunity for outside excursions centered around two themes. First off will be a Photoshop tutorial by Ann Torrence who will be presenting a preview of her workshop at the Moab Photo Symposium with the focus on blending, mixing and remixing, a subject uniquely Ann. Ann's presentation will show us how to use the extensive number of tools in Adobe Photoshop dedicated to layer blending modes and the options palette.

This was my second time meeting the great folks in the Photowalking Utah group and I had just as much as I did the first time, when we spent the day learning about studio lighting.

For this event about 50 photographers had full access to the center's retinal research labs for 2 hours after which we convened in the auditorium for Ann's informative Photoshop presentation. While many of the photogs spent their time shooting lab equipment I decided to shoot mostly behind-the-scenes, covering the shooters hard at work on their creations.

Here's a sampling of the 2 hour shoot:









I also set some time aside to take some wide-angle architectural photography of the center itself:





You can view the full photoset over at my Flickr account and view the works of the other photographers at the group's photo collection.

.v is for verisimilitude.

.v is for verisimilitude., originally uploaded by calanan.

Main St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

.e is for ensemble.

.e is for ensemble., originally uploaded by calanan.

South Temple and State
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Bella Sara

Bella Sara, originally uploaded by calanan.

Allen St at Delaware Ave
Buffalo, NY

Nikkor 35mm f/2D

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Just out of frame.

Just out of frame., originally uploaded by calanan.

Elmwood Ave at Summer
Buffalo, NY

Sigma 30mm f/1.4D DC HSM EX

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Buffalo's mysterious Woman in White

Buffalo's mysterious Woman in White, originally uploaded by calanan.

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Elmwood Ave at Summer
Buffalo, NY

Nikkor 35mm f/2D

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.a is for alderman.

.a is for alderman., originally uploaded by calanan.

Main St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Damn hippies" hip-shot street photography series]

Opening sequence

Opening sequence, originally uploaded by calanan.

Allen St
Buffalo, NY

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

"Attack!"

"Attack!", originally uploaded by calanan.

Some kids at the festival saw me and my crazy TLR and asked to have their photo taken.

Griffis Music Festival 2006

Griffis Sculpture Park
Ashford, NY

1969 Yashica Mat 124
Yashinon 80mm f/3.5
Kodak Portra 400 NC

For sweet distin - She's an inspiration to me.

Laykin Bacon and Lexi Lou, too!

Laykin Bacon and Lexi Lou, too!, originally uploaded by calanan.

Something from the archives...


Laykin and Lexi, Manray's nieces
Niagara County, NY

Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D

.c is for covert.

.c is for covert., originally uploaded by calanan.

Main St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Love of Carnage! on Flickr commented, "superb! like the opening titles of some espionage film from the late 60s!" - I love that description!

.u is for unwilling.

.u is for unwilling., originally uploaded by calanan.

New drive-by.

Main St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Rotunda and entrance to Supreme Court

Rotunda and entrance to Supreme Court, originally uploaded by calanan.

After visiting the Utah State Capitol last week for a tour, I returned the other day with a tripod to take some long exposure photos. You can check out my Flickr set for a full gallery of images of the Capitol but here are few new views of this gorgeous building:

Entrance to Supreme Court


North entrance and fountain


A docent points out mural details to a tour group


Rotunda


State Reception Room

Crazy Dreams

Crazy Dreams #6, originally uploaded by calanan.

.h is for hover.

.h is for hover., originally uploaded by calanan.

State St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

.k is for kitsch.

.k is for kitsch., originally uploaded by calanan.

I am on the road again...

Main St
Salt Lake City, UT

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Part of my "Drive-By Shootings" street photography series]

Utah State Capitol

Utah State Capitol, originally uploaded by calanan.

Salt Lake City, UT

With guests in town from back east I finally visited the recently-renovated State Capitol and my oh my was I impressed. The building is simply majestic and awe-inspiring.

Rotunda and Entrance to House of Representatives


Rotunda and Chandelier



The entrance to the Utah House of Representatives


A Utah Senator during recess


Rotunda and Entrance to Supreme Court


And I think my favorite part of the renovation were these antique reproduction light bulbs:

Manray and me on the lift

Manray and me on the lift, originally uploaded by calanan.

We're hosting some friends from back east this week and yesterday we went boarding at Brighton. What a great time we had but our keysters are sure screaming about it today!