Duo Falls

This nice little cascade is located near the main intersection of the road leading to the lodge in Zion National Park, UT. The simplicity of the water flow coupled with the colorful tumbled rock make this a very easy photo to enjoy.

Black Branch and Sandstone

A simple composition featuring a tree branch in profile before a red sandstone formation makes a very striking photo. This really stood out to me as I was hiking around Balanced Rock in Arches National Monument.

Delicate Arch in B&W

Delicate Arch is the undisputed leader of photo icons for Utah, it appears on many of our license plates and most brochures or web site for Utah. Due to the flat light when I was there I really didn't like the colored version of this photo, after turning it to B&W it really popped.

Extruded Green Tree

Sometimes I just like to have fun with a photo. I really liked the composition of the original photo on this tree, but it lacked interest and purpose until I noticed a filter called Extrude. After applying it I decided that it really made the shot.

Painted Refelection

I added an oil paint filter to this otherwise plain photo to give it a very unusual appearance. It became quite colorful in the process.

Mesa Arch

This is a view through Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Monument near Moab, UT. I arrived there at about 8:30 am just as the sun was lighting up the red sandstone wall below the arch, the wonderful glow on the arch is a result of this along with its eastward facing direction.

Boiling Sandstone

This is a view of Bryce Canyon from the rim. I loved the colors and bizarre shapes that are everywhere in this National Park. I could spend hours just looking and wondering about in this amazing place.

Twin Falls, ID Temple

The Twin Falls, ID temple is framed nicely by the rough stone wall on one side and the tree on the other. Normally I would not allow a tree to just jut out of nowhere but here it just seems to work. All of this is in contrast to the smooth white and clean lines of the beautiful temple.

Stained Glass Reflections

This is a photo of the beautiful temple known as the Jordan River Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a very hard temple to capture, but here the stained glass windows match the color of the clouds in the setting sun giving it an almost transparent look.

Under the Pier

This is the pier at Cocoa Beach, FL. We were there several years ago but I was never happy with the results that I got from the HDR processing on this photo. I tried it again with a newer version of my tonemapping software and then worked it over in Photoshop. The thing I like most about the shot is that it is basically a negative of most pier shots. The pier normally forms the leading line with the water on each side. Here the water is the leading line and the pier forms the setting.

Fallen Log in Cecret Lake

Cecret Lake has long been one of my favorite subjects. It is a little tiny lake in Albion Basin, UT but has so many faces that I never get tired of going there.

Aspen on a Slope-in oil

I think this is one of my best aspen shots. I love the way the trail leads you into the photo at about the 1/3 point along with the slope of the mountain side. The aspen were just beginning to turn and had become a beautiful lime green. I applied an oil painting filter to this one to give it a bit of an abstract look.

Painted Aspen

Sometimes I just want to have fun with a photo. I really can't even call this a photo because it is so changed and modified. I shot it in manual then applied several filters to it. I really like the way it looks almost hand painted. I guess I have a latent desire to be an artist rather than a photographer.

Payson, UT Temple

This is the yet uncompleted temple in Payson, UT. It is essentially complete on the outside but the inside is not yet finished. I was there just the other day and stopped to take a few shots. This is a 5 shot HDR with on oil painting filter applied only to the landscaping. I also rendered it with a filter called find edges. It makes the lines of the building very crisp.

Ice Cicles

A friend of mine wanted to go shooting yesterday. We went back up into Big Cottonwood Canyon but all of the ice was gone on the falls, it only remained in small pockets along the way. We went part way up to Lake Blanch and found a little spot that was protected from the sun. I shot it and then used On One software to make it look like this. LYLE