tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98271842012-01-28T10:26:48.183-07:00photographic mumbo jumbo and wordy ramblings by someone with a few cameras and many unsubstantiated opinionsSteph Parkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414624094750468304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827184.post-51941378091616901252012-01-28T10:26:00.001-07:002012-01-28T10:26:48.195-07:00

We fell so hard for Curry Village back in September. I mentioned quite a while ago that we went to Yosemite to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, but I failed to mention that we almost didn't come back home. We could have holed up in a canvas tent cabin and stayed forever in Yosemite. What a park. What a landmark. What a special anniversary.We stayed in cabin #9 for three nights. The moment

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It's been just over three months since our amazing trip to Yosemite to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Those three months have been busy to say the least. Life as I knew it was sort of upended for a while due to school and some family things. The last two weeks have been a nice break, especially from the urgent urgency of homework and online lectures. The bad thing about a break though is that it

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Well, I'm off to a good start seeing as today is day 1 and I've already crossed off #1. Happy birthday to me! Today is #34. I've got what's sure to be a crazy year ahead of me, thanks to my bright idea to go to grad school, but with a little bit of luck and a lot of determination, it's sure to be a year full of fun things. I didn't do the best job on my list last year (again thanks to surprising

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Well, it's not two turntables or a microphone, but it's some pretty fly stuff. I can't believe the response I've gotten to my camera sale. Mostly everything is gone except for these gems. Make me an offer I can't refuse. Come on. You know you have a camera addiction that needs to be fed. Let me help. Tower T-185 8mm movie camera - rare, awesome, would look amazing sitting on your shelf SOLD!

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Please accept my apology for the horrid photos contained in this post. I am in a huge hurry, trying to get this stuff online before I start school again this next week. As you can see, I'm selling some of my stuff. I've determined that 50+ cameras and all the things that come with 50+ cameras is just too much. Downsizing is a good thing! Please leave a comment if you're interested, or track me

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I've forgotten how difficult it can be to balance full-time work and school. Throw trying to have a decent home life and some family time in there. Oh and let's not forget the holidays too. Needless to say, I've been busy. I'm looking forward to this Saturday because it means I'm done with weird work schedules and brain-melting classes. It means I'm free. At least until January 9th when it all

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Idaho, oh Idaho._________________________________________________________________________________________Head on over to my Etsy shop for new prints, a BOGO sale, lower prices, and cheaper shipping. Hooray!

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I remembered today that I have a very neglected Etsy shop. To make up for it, I've added several new prints, lowered my prices and shipping costs, and I'm having a big BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE sale! You can choose from the prints in my shop or on my Flickr photostream, and you'll get a print of equal or smaller size for free. Just tell me which one you'd like. Simple enough? I think so! So head on

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October 7, when did you get here? Wasn't Memorial Day just last weekend? How does this happen every year? This morning I woke to find a family e-mail about Christmas festivities in my inbox and all I could do was stare at the screen. I blinked and shook my head, like I'd just been bonked on the head. I collected myself and responded, but I'm still in disbelief that we're discussing December. Time

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It was very fitting to hike to these beautiful trees on our 10th wedding anniversary last Thursday in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park. The sign says it all, even though it's a little nerdy. And what a place to celebrate. There was hiking, sightseeing, jaw dropping, tree hugging, beer drinking, raccoon shooing, Curry camping, beach sitting, and picture taking. It was

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A couple more from the amazing little Grizzly Ridge Yurt... These are from my Pentax K1000 on our last night in the woods, and still, the beautiful light continued. I had planned on posting these clouds tonight, and then I saw Vanessa's cloudscapes on her blog today and loved the serendipity. Hi friend!

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"Stay in a yurt" was on my list of things to do this summer, and in mid-July, that's just what we did. On July 15, we drove to the bustling metropolis of Vernal, Utah, then headed north on Highway 191 to the Ashley National Forest. After a very bumpy two miles where there were times we had to get out of the car and move rocks out of the way, we decided we'd gone far enough up the jeep trail and

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Today I headed out into the field for my second day of my new contract with the US Forest Service, and I went to Bountiful Peak Campground, a place closer to my home than most, but also very, very far away. Once the road turned to dirt, I traveled only 36 miles roundtrip, but it took me two full hours. It wasn't the worst road I've ever been on - far from it, actually - but it was indeed the

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I finish writing all about my June trip to Seattle and breathe a sigh of relief. That was a lot of photos to cover! And now, here we are in August and I'm about to barrage you with images from my July trip to Portland, where I probably shot double the photographs. I made 53 Polaroids (felt so good!) and cruised through three rolls of film (two of which are over on Doubles). It was a trip for the

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Last day in Seattle. I was extremely happy to head home to my husband, but bummed to leave such a great town. I didn't shoot any 35mm this day, instead I burned through a pack of PX600 Poor Pod (love that stuff!) and snapped a few iPhone images in Pike Place and Post Alley, and one cliche but always necessary out-the-airplane-window shot. It was so nice to be home, but the next day, I wished

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I'm a mountain girl with a serious hankering for the ocean. I don't quite know how to have the best of both worlds, so I try to get to the coast at least once a year to satisfy my craving for saltwater and sea mist. Seattle was my first coastal visit this year and although I wasn't able to get out on the ocean, or even the Sound, I sure didn't miss my chance to stare at the water, smile as the

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I thought it was smart to post my June Seattle trip day by day (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) but almost two months have passed and I've only posted half of my photos! I've done myself a bit of a disservice because I won't remember all the details. (And I like details.) No matter. It's high time I posted these pics and got them off my ever-growing to-post list because I've got a boatload

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Is it sappy to say this is how film photography makes me feel? Vanessa and I are having so much fun experimenting with double exposures. This image is from our fifth roll. I shot the fireworks and she shot the camera image. We were at the overlook on Neahkahnie Mountain on Highway 101 two weeks ago and as I loaded a decades-old roll of Kodachrome into my K1000, Vanessa asked me to hold it still

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Last November, I woke to a puddle on my kitchen counter and when I wiped it up, I got dripped on. Days later, I noticed bubbles on the ceiling about five feet away, and months later, a new puddle formed on the floor between the two previous trouble spots. Once May arrived and the weather (almost) dried up, the work to fix it all began. A flurry of activity and noise ensued and now two months

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Skipping right past a plethora of K1000 images from Day 3 (I'll come back; there's a method to my madness), I give you the PX600 "Poor Pod" Polaroids (waterfront, Japanese maple, robot on Western Ave below Pike, and two pieces of art from Post Alley) and a trio of PX600 UV+ images (Mt. Rainier from the plane). I really, really love the Poor Pod film. Its tones are perfectly smooth and contrasty.

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Total was a very filmy day, thanks to my stop at Glazer's Camera during lunch on Day 2. I went in for two rolls of Kodak Portra for my K1000 and walked out with $100 worth of film. I grabbed a 5-pack of Portra and as I stood in line, I noticed a stack of The Impossible Project's 60 UV+, so I grabbed two. $100 just like that. Anyway, back to Day 3. I took a walk down Thomas Street between Aurora

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After seven long hours of class in a stuffy, loud, and nearly windowless hotel conference room, we were finally excused and four of us set off on another Seattle wandering, and back to Pike Place we went. We got there a little earlier so we got to watch the fish throwers, sample delicious Chukar Cherry treats, smell bunch after bunch of flowers, and we even grabbed a paper bag full of hot, fresh

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It took me eight years to finally graduate from college and in all those years, the furthest I got to travel for any class was up to the local ski resort for the day so I could skip class. I wasn't the best student in my early years, I'll just put that out there. My transcripts sadly reflect my lack of attentiveness, but at 18 and 20, telling me college was important was like talking to a brick

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After weeks and weeks of giddy shutter-clicking, hordes of e-mails, a handful of Google searches, and excitement we could barely contain, Vanessa and I are so happy to announce our new project, Doubles: An Experiment in Film Swapping. Until we began, I had only ever shot one accidental double exposure in my 10-ish years as a photog. Double exposures were never on my to-do list, nor did I think I

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I can't believe the deal Heather got on this beast. She was shopping for her future wedding ring at an antique shop and in walked a guy with this beautiful piece of machinery. The antique dealer didn't want it so Heather offered him $100 and he took it. Lucky girl. When will I be in the right place at the right time?

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It just dawned on me that I forgot to mention my blog's sixth birthday way back in February. Oops. Happy Birthday (or anniversary?) to my cozy little space in the infinite internet universe.

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I'm sure not doing a great job at updating this space weekly like I had intended at the first of the year. I've got a really wonderful excuse though: I'm going back to school. I graduated with a BS in English and photography in 2004 and after six years of "I'm never going to school again!" and one year of "Oh, maybe I will..", I've embraced perhaps the biggest obstacle of my birthday list and

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It's finally sunny out, after a morning of snow and an afternoon of numbingly cold wind, and where am I? Sitting inside in front of the computer, of course. It's a sad state of affairs, but also one that's worthwhile. I've mentioned Vanessa's Three Winks blog once before here in this space, but I just spent a fair amount of time perusing its entirety when I should be out throwing a Frisbee or

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1. magnolia, 2. corrugated, 3. garage, 4. wall, 5. Ute Cab, 6. turquoise, 7. CO., 8. Keep it...The amazing Impossible Project just recently released its new PX680 Beta film designed specifically for Polaroid 600 cameras, or in my case, the Polaroid SLR 680. It can be used in SX-70 cameras with an ND filter as well. Their first color film, the PX70 Color Shade, seemed really beautiful when it came

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This week on Words to Shoot By, we chose a unique word to interpret with our cameras: kaleidoscope. I had such a fun time shooting for it, even though my original idea was squashed by my fear of blasting through my last two packs of Polaroid Spectra in mere minutes. I had planned on shooting quadruple exposures with my Minolta Instant Pro and some Spectra, but after doing just one and seeing how

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Just because I've been enjoying a lot of down time lately doesn't mean I remember to post here. Oops. I'm currently waiting around for the weather to improve and the snow to melt so I can get back out on the road for the Forest Service. I've been reading a lot, knitting a little, wasting a bit of Polaroid film, and cooking quite a bit. I've also picked up a new hobby... biking. I started biking

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I stumbled upon a beautiful collaboration called Winterness through lovely Three Winks last night and spent the better part of two hours reading through it. When the time came to close my browser and climb into bed, I did so with an overwhelming I'm-done-with-winter feeling and the desire to begin a new collaborative project. The who, the what, and the how I'm not sure of yet, but I do know that

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We are the proud owners of two new beanies knitted by yours truly! I'm extremely proud of these little things and neither of us can stop wearing them. If it weren't for the warm sunshine and promise of long summer days ahead, I'd almost wish it were only November again so we could wear these for the next five months, but I've already been accused of channeling Meg Griffin's classy style so I

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Back in July of last year, I began a project I called 365-ish and on January 1, I quit. I gave up. Many photographers/Flickrites begin and successfully complete 365-day or 52-week projects where they shoot a photo every day or once a week depending on their project, and after about three years of watching others do it, I finally thought I should give it a try. At the time, I was out shooting for

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Grizzly Ridge YurtLimber Flag YurtView from Limber Flag YurtBeing a non-snowmobiler, I felt pretty hard core two weeks ago when I got to go snowmobiling on a 22-mile roundtrip groomed trail on the Boise National Forest. It was not challenging in the least, but was really fun. I felt primed for my snowmobiling trip on the Ashley National Forest the following week (last Thursday). Turns out my fun

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Boiling Springs CabinStanley Mountain Village parking lotAnother iPhone shot from Galena SummitIt's funny how images you passed over at first suddenly stick out at second or third glance. These are a few of them, some leftovers from my Idaho.6 post. I survived a wild (mis)adventure on the Ashley National Forest last week and will be posting a few photos from there soon, more black & white. I'm on

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Beaver Creek Cabin, Boise NFBoiling Springs Cabin, Boise NFWith winter and my contract with the Forest Service winding down, I found myself back in Idaho all last week, playing in the snow, driving in it, and dreaming of Hawaii and other sunny, snowless places. When I arrived in Boise Tuesday morning, the sun was out and the thermometer was pushing 60. As I waited to meet up with my Forest

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Dear Steph, next time you go play disc golf at your favorite park on a beautiful spring-like Sunday and you decide to throw a Polaroid SX-70 in your camera bag to shoot photos of all the awesome trees at Creekside, make sure there's film in it or else you'll be stuck shooting photos with your iPhone and trying to make them look cool with Lo-Mob. Note to self: Polaroid is so much cooler than an

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abstractadmirebluenewopenorangeplacepolaroidrippleroundscentselfshadowsquaresummertwowaterwrinkleOver at Words to Shoot By today, I posted a beautiful collection of images from 30 photographers around the world: 14 of us are regular contributors, myself included, and the remaining 16 are just a small sampling of those who entered Words' second-ever open call for entries. It was an absolute

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When our favorite bands announce tours and leave Salt Lake City off the list, we have no choice but to leave town. A lot. This time we took a quick flight up to our favorite little city, Boise, Idaho. We flew up last Saturday afternoon and walked over to TableRock Brewery for dinner with some friends, good food, and really good beer. I've recently discovered how much I love a nut brown ale and

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Yarn bombing has come to Salt Lake City on a very as-yet small scale thanks to the Outdoor Retailer show, Ibex, Blazing Needles, and of course, local knitters. Compared to other amazing feats of yarn bombing, these are really, really tame but it's a start. A week or so ago when I was making a few last stockinette stitches on my first hat, Cynthia at Blazing Needles was gathering up knitted pieces

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Back in mid-November, I had to make one last trip into the field for the Forest Service, back down to southern Utah. It was fitting to end the season in Pine Valley Recreation Area on the Dixie National Forest since that was my first overnighter this season, and now the last. Pine Valley is such a pretty little place, quiet, quaint, almost like the place that time forgot. It seems that way to me

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I might have to change the name of my blog to PhotoKnitSteph because I think it's going to be inundated with photos of knitted things. Just wait. This photo of a knitted thing makes me very, very happy. I took the "My First Hat" class at fabulous Blazing Needles and finished up last night. I intended on making the hat for my husband since he called first dibs, but I'm not sure what I did that

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Well, here it is, my beautiful new scarf. I finished it Saturday night and wore it - in awe - for a few minutes before heading to bed. I'm so proud of it, and so proud of myself for sticking with it. I've worn it every day since and when I hang it over my closet door when I get home, I can't help but stand and admire it for a minute or two. I can't get over how pretty it is, and looking at it and

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I'm 33 today! I always thought 33 would feel different, and 30-32 for that matter, but the truth is that I still feel like I'm 18 some days, 12 other days, 5 on days like Christmas, and on a few rare occasions, I feel like I'm 80. (Hence the heating pad I finally broke down and bought a few weeks ago, but I just pretend it's so I can keep warm on cold days.) It's become tradition to make a

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Hey! That's me! I am finally so happy and proud to say that I am a knit-knit-knitter. After an expensive Saturday at confusing knitting school five years ago, a loooong period of not knitting, a free Saturday morning knitting class in Fall '09, and another year of not knitting, I finally committed myself to it. I bought one skein of cheap, confidence-building, pretty, grass green Wool-Ease Thick

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If you don't like the cold, I urge you to move along and not read this post because it's going to make you cold! We had planned on snowshoeing on Sunday, but Friday, as we drove through Ogden Valley on our way to my family's cabin for Christmas Eve festivities, we saw that Pineview Reservoir still had open water. It was right then and there that snowshoeing got put on the back burner, and our

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No words today, just some new photos and a hello.

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The end of my second (traveling) season with the Forest Service couldn't have been more perfect. I had one last trip to make to Pine Valley Recreation Area in Dixie National Forest, so we made a long weekend out of it and stayed two nights in cozy Springdale, Utah right outside Zion National Park. We hiked, we soaked up the last of the late autumn sunshine, we ate good food, and we saw Zion

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Hey, look who it is! I got new specs and got to cross #12 off my list. They pretty much look just like my old ones. Happy Friday!

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I was at work last Thursday morning, you know - working, when I got an e-mail that made me really excited. I got the go-ahead to fly up to Boise, Idaho that very afternoon for a quick, end-of-the-season day in the field. I rushed home to book the flight and hotel, do laundry, pack, and have lunch with my husband, then off to Boise I went. This was the third trip there for me in four months,

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As much as I hate to admit it, I think I've resigned to posting in this space once a month. Several times a week, I think "Hey, I should update my blog" but then I get busy with other things and forget. I've had a busy month, both with work and play. We've had a lot of family time, a lot of Netflix-watching in bed, and a lot of cooking going on. There's been a little pumpkin-carving with the

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What a wonderful weekend it was. We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights with different friends, catching up, playing games, eating great food. I wanted nothing more than to spend time in the kitchen Saturday, so I made a to-die-for meatloaf (I hate that word!) and a big pan of herbed roasted veggies. For dessert, I made a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting all from scratch. (I'll

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With tomorrow being the first day of fall, and the fact that I haven't posted practically all summer, I thought I'd let you in on what I did during my summer vacation. (Vacation?! Ha!)relaxed on our awesome new deckroad-tripped to Capitol Reef, this time with friendswent on a nerdy photo outing with my favorite nerdy photo pallearned to love asparagus, thanks to this delish pizza remembered how

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1. stationery2. winter beanies3. snowflakes4. kitchen stores5. old wooden canoes and oars6. lake swimming7. beaches8. SmartWool socks9. screen-printed tea towels10. woodcut prints11. internet shopping12. rain13. crunchy leaves14. Pie Sundays15. Polaroids16. typography17. white serving dishes18. woodsmoke19. outdoor concerts20. the smell of sunblock21. craftsman cottages22. hemp23. bookstores24.

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I had been on the dirt, but decent, Stolle Meadows Road in Boise National Forest for only a half mile when I decided that I'd eat lunch on the beach at Warm Lake when I was done with my work, which consisted of driving five miles in to Stolle Meadows Cabin, photographing it, and driving back out. Easy enough, right? Uh huh.About a mile past the cabin, the road is under construction, and since

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Good things come to those who wait. Better late than never. A journey of 1,000 miles (or 10.4) begins with one step. All of these quotes come to mind as I try to begin this happy post. I'm a year late making the journey to Jardine Juniper (#31 on last year's list), but we did it yesterday, all 10.4 miles of it, and I was elated. I practically skipped down the last quarter-mile of trail to

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Just stopping by to report that I am now five whole days into my 365-ish project and I haven't missed a day yet. Hip hip hooray. This one is from this morning, a beautiful place called Moon Lake in the Uintas in Eastern Utah. Before I headed out this morning, I came a cross a new iPhone app called Lo-Mob that I couldn't resist. $1.99 for fake Polaroids. Yep, that's right. This is a faux

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Patchwork farmland gave way to junipers today, then scrub oaks, aspens, white pines, and finally above-treeline wildflowers. My evening gave way to homemade raspberry ice cream on the front porch.(I'm already seeing a problem with this 365-ish thing. I have this freakish obsession with keeping my Flickr photostream completely organized in order of how I shoot things, and this project blows that

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Wow. Believe it or not, two posts in two days! I had a lot of time to ponder a new project for myself today, and I've come to a slightly hesitant but excited decision. I had a field day in beautiful Logan Canyon today, where the 8-hour/234-mile trip was punctuated by thirty glorious minutes in the sunshine at gorgeous Tony Grove Lake, where I realized how much I loved contributing to the very

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Last year I had such a great track record for keeping this space updated but this year, I've completely dropped the ball. I can't believe it's almost been a month since I posted last. I've got to come up with a way to stay current! Maybe I need to do a 52 Weeks project or something. Hmm. I'll give that a thought. Catching up... It's July 7 and I'm wondering how that happened. I've been

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Last summer, we talked about stripping and re-staining our little deck off the back of the house. This past February, we dreamed a little bigger and had my cousin come tear it down instead. After a snowstorm or two, I met with the most amazing deck builders ever, Mike and Larry Beeson, a father-son team and friends of my dad's and experts at their craft. In late March, they staked out the

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Just popping in quickly to say that I've added a few new offerings to my shop, and I've drastically lowered my prices too. My prints used to be $18 and now they're $12. 4-card note card sets used to be $15 and now they are $10, and my postcards w/envelopes (set of 4) used to be $14 and now they are $8. It's time to make things affordable! I intend on adding new things within the next week as

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Phew. Ok. I am here to play catch up with you all and my blog. It's hard to believe it's the end of May already. I hope you've all been enjoying the springtime and early summer. It hasn't felt much like either here in Northern Utah. We've gotten a lot of snow and rain, so it's seemed more like a warm winter of sorts, but today, despite the wind and clouds, it's warm out. If I weren't so

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This is long overdue I have to admit, but better late than never, right? Several weeks ago, my husband surprised me with a quick weekend getaway to Moab and Arches National Park in Southeastern Utah, a place we both love tremendously. It's so rewarding having places like this to run away to with only a 3-hour drive. On the way down, I got bored in the car and ending up purchasing the

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I have so very much catching up to do. It will come soon. I promise.

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Today marks my first day guest posting on the very lovely Habit! Thanks to Emily and Molly for inviting me to join the amazing crew for the month of May. I'm very excited and honored.A word about this photo... I woke up yesterday morning with tears streaming onto my pillow. I had to catch my breath. I had been dreaming about my grandma again. I miss her so much. It seems strange that

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I think Portland has got to be my favorite city. I have lovely memories of Seattle, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, and lots of places in between, but Portland is by far the best. I got to tag along there with my sister a few weeks ago, and to help me remember it all, you now get to read everything I did. It's the trip account. My favorite thing about coming home. I love recounting the whole

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Guess where I just got home from? Arches! My sweet husband surprised me with a weekend getaway. He sprung it on me Friday, telling me to pack my bags. We camped at the only place with vacancies - the KOA (at least the toilets flushed!) and hiked the Sandstone Arch/Broken Arch loop, the North/South Windows trail at sunset, Delicate Arch this morning, and Devil's Garden this afternoon.

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It's been far too long since I've last written here. Turns out that keeping up on another blog has taken some of my time from this space, and work has been abnormally insane, and then I slipped away to Portland for a week too. I've got so many images to share... so many that I don't even know where to start, so I'll begin with this one, a favorite of my Polaroids from Portland. It was the

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Congratulations, hugs, high fives, and even a few happy tears for The Impossible Project today. History has been made by Doc, Andre, Dave, Anne, Marlene, and the rest of the crew. New film is available to the public on March 25! I have to give my sincerest thanks to these wonderful people for asking me to be among 39 others to test the new PX 100 and PX 600 films. What an honor. I can't wait

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Thanks to my sister-in-law, I got the kick I needed to cross #21 off my list, to make Dana Treat's Nutella Pound Cake, and damn, was it delicious. Read all about it on my slowly developing food blog, Budding Foodie. In other news, my awesome new bathroom is just that. Awesome and new! I don't have any photos to share yet because I'm waiting till it's 100% finished. It's all but done, but we

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Next week is the start of something big, something very different. I am going part-time at good ol' Backcountry.com so I can work part-time for the Forest Service. I am so anxious for this change. I feel like I've been running myself ragged the last few weeks. I've been feeling a little like the Polaroid below. Discombobulated. Disconnected. Maybe a little broken. I've been trying to fit

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Back in December when I was thinking of 2010 and what I should do with it, I quietly thought that this might be the year I would refrain from buying any new cameras. I think I may have even said it out loud once or twice. Well, it's March and that idea has already fallen flat, but I'm really not surprised. In January, not one month into the year, I bought "G-Dub", a beautiful Great Wall camera

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One month and four days in, and I'm already making progress on my list. We had friends over for dinner a couple weekends ago and I crossed #8 off right quick. Saturday afternoon, I mentioned to a friend that I'd always wanted to make tomatillo salsa, and by Monday afternoon, it was underway. I was actually making the beginnings of dinner and by the time I was pulsing away with the food

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I had the pleasure a couple weeks ago of taking a drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon just east of Salt Lake City to shoot some photos for the good ol' Forest Service. I was asked to shoot something with blue sky and snow to replace the drab nearly black & white banner on Recreation.gov. When I woke up that morning, it was still dark but I could tell the sky was crystal clear. I waited impatiently

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February is here and so is the time to celebrate my blog's birthday! On February 27th, this space will turn 5! I feel like a geezer. See the first post that started it all. I'm sure you're wondering what I'm going to do to celebrate. Since blogs don't eat cupcakes or want to go bowling like I do on my birthday, I decided to open a spanking new shop! Please follow this link to my new shop at

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I'm revamping and reopening my Etsy shop on Monday, February 1st to celebrate my blog's 5th birthday - or anniversary - whichever you prefer. These quick snaps are a sneak peek of some of the offerings that will be available and on sale. I'll announce the shop's reopening here on Monday, and I hope you'll stop by. Have a nice weekend, friends!

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My scanner cooperated long enough for me to scan the rest of my negatives from San Francisco, Monterey, and Pacific Grove. When I went to turn the beast on this past Monday, it was dead again. The repair shop ordered a whole new board (for the third time) and now a new power cord, and I have to drop it off on my lunch today. They said they'd only keep it for an hour, and I hope that's the case

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The ball is rolling! Very excitedly, I am working on crossing #26 off my "32 things" list. A new photo project! This year, my list contains a lot of food-related items, and with this project, I'm hoping to kill two birds (er, nine) with one stone. So what's the project? Please head on over to Budding Foodie to check it out. I'm so happy about the project and really looking forward to

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Ever since posting my birthday list, I've thought up a bunch of other things I'd like to do this year. Things like trying a new recipe weekly, and definitely making flatbread and potato leek pizza, eating in more and out far less, beginning a b/w project with my Lubitel, and hosting a party on my new deck to celebrate its completion (when it's finished of course)... I'd also like to try my hand

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Today is my 32nd birthday! I had so much fun this past year working on my "31 things" birthday list that I decided to make one for this year. I must send my thanks again to the queen list-maker herself, the lovely Andrea Jenkins, whose lists never cease to inspire and awe me. Thanks friend! So with no further adieu, I give you my list of 32 things to do before I turn 33...1. Go to a roller

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Today is my last day to work on my list, and it doesn't look like I'm going to get to anything else on it, although I did just cross off #5 and #19. I think I did pretty well though, considering the crazy busy year I had. I did a LOT of traveling - both for work and play, shot a LOT of photos - again, both for work and play, met a lot of lovely new people through Flickr, made a few new local

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It's 2010! We're only four days in and already I feel like I have to catch up. I've spent most of today doing just that, but without my scanner (it died last Tuesday and is still in the repair shop), I can't quite do everything I'd hoped, but such is life. My last post here was a quick post-and-run, and here I am finally to write all about the last month, how busy it was and how much fun it

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Travis and I normally get a 6' real tree at Christmas. We go to a Christmas tree lot, tromp around for a few minutes selecting the perfect tree, tie it to the roof of the car, hack off the bottom of the trunk in the driveway, drag it through the door, and then futz with the tree stand for half an hour, but this year, because we were out of town all last week and didn't want a live tree in the

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In my attempt to cross off #9, I checked out photobooth.net and got extremely excited that there were so many booths in the SLC area. Last Saturday, after bowling in the desert in a snow storm, my friend Christina and I drove to the first booth on the list in Murray and found that it was no longer there. The clerk I asked even laughed at me. We trudged back through the snow and decided to call

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My book, Into the Woods: A Season on the National Forests is now available right here at Blurb! It's a collection of photos I made over the summer as I worked my way through 11 national forests and 132 campgrounds during my seasonal contract with the US Forest Service. As I traveled through campgrounds in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada, I hauled along various Polaroid cameras, toy cameras,

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It's not often that I make two posts in the same day, but so much has been going on lately and I feel like all of my NYC photos have put me behind. This second post of the day is to tell you about a revamped and exciting Words to Shoot By. A couple of weeks ago, I invited 10 new contributors to the project and simplified it for all of us. We're still posting every two weeks, but each post will

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I meant to post day 5 last week, but got completely sidetracked by all of my day 4 photos... So day 5, my last day in the city, didn't start out with an A train ride to 14th and a walk to Murray's. Instead, it started off with a little sleeping in, breakfast at Heather's, then the A train to 125th, and a cab ride to LaGuardia. I was headed home. I thought for sure that it would take a half

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Sunday was a different day. Heather got stuck at a photo shoot all day with Sarah Silver, so I got to roam the city myself. I started off by - you guessed it - riding the A train to 14th, then a short walk to Murray's Bagels where once again, I got an onion bagel with chive cream cheese and fresh-squeezed orange juice. Since this would be my last morning with time to go to Murray's, I bought a

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Saturday began just like Friday, with the A train to 14th and a quick walk to Avenue of the Americas for more onion bagels and chive cream cheese at Murray's, and yet another visit to the Rite Aid across the street. My umbrella broke Friday and Saturday was pretty rainy so I had to grab a new one. We stopped at Urban Outfitters on the way back to the subway, and I fell in love. I’d never been

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Friday morning we woke up and rode the A train (a daily occurrence) to 14th Street and walked a block or so to Murray's Bagels, which came highly recommended by Brian. Thank you, sir! Murray's was insanely good. I am a freak of onion bagels with chive cream cheese, and this crowded but cozy little place was tops. Heather and I sat on a bench out front in the light rain and couldn't believe

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I've been home from New York City for two weeks now, so it's about time I made a proper post about it, and it's going to be in long segments, but before you read any further, head over to 8tracks, click play, and then come back to read. It's our NYC playlist, because every trip should have a playlist. I think Heather and I started saying "Wouldn't it be fun if I came to visit you in New York?"

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The purpose of this Polaroid is twofold. Let's start with the big BIG news first. I made a book! Just last night, I uploaded 142 pages of photo goodness to Blurb, and I'm now very anxiously awaiting the arrival of my copy of Into the Woods: A Season on the National Forests. It's not available to the public just yet; I want to check it out first and make sure it's ok. I have to admit that

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What a whirlwind the last couple of weeks have been! I've been absent from this space for a little while because I was in New York City! The last post was made from the hardwood floor of my friend Heather's apartment in Manhattan. Isn't that crazy? I've always wanted to see the city -- last time I was there I was 8, and I only remember the throngs of yellow cabs -- but I never really thought

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This is an odd post for this nature girl, but tonight, I got to hang out with both the model and the photographer who made this awesome shot. My friend Heather made this photo and it is among the top 10 finalists for Armani's photography competition. Please, please, please go cast your vote for Heather. It would be a huge thing for her, and for Whitney, her model. Go cast your vote here!

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It's Polaroid Week and it's Thursday and I'm just now getting my head in the game. Monday would have been my day to get out and shoot, but I was on a Forest Service field trip all day and the light was just not conducive to Polaroid-making, and yesterday I planned to get out on my lunch break and then ended up getting stuck at work, and the one Polaroid I did shoot in the morning ended up

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My mom's dearest friend very unexpectedly passed away last week. She was only 52, healthy and hilarious. She had three kids, five grandbabies, and a wonderful husband. I feel so sad for her family and for my mom, who received heaps and heaps of love and kindness from this lovely lady. She will be sorely missed, especially by my family. Rest in peace dear friend, and thank you for everything

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I spent a few hours at the cabin with my dad last Sunday and yesterday, but I was sad to see that in a week, autumn was all but done. Last Sunday is when I made these Polaroids and a bunch of little Instax images, but as we were driving past the lake, up into the mountains toward the cabin, we could see that the golden yellow aspens were reduced mostly to bare white branches and the oaks had

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Just wanted to pop in and say hello before we head to the Capitol Theater to see David Sedaris!

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