Native Minnow's Pics

2009-02-25T17:19:00.000-08:00

2008-08-11T13:29:00.000-07:00

2008-07-22T08:59:00.000-07:00

This was taken right outside my office, and if it wasn't for the crane and street lights in the picture, you might think it was a tropical paradise. It's not. It's smack dab in the middle of the ghetto.

2008-07-07T16:37:00.000-07:00

I didn't see any extra-terrestrial activity at Devils Tower, but I did get this photo which I think is kind of cool. (I should've posted this a few days ago for the 4th of July, but it's still the season, right?)

2008-07-01T16:29:00.000-07:00

I dare say this is a perspective of Mt. Rushmore that you've never seen before. Well, unless you've been there too that is.

2008-05-23T12:35:00.000-07:00

It's good to have a zoom lens when you encounter a threatened species such as this Desert Tortoise. It was the first one I'd seen in the wild in all my time in the desert. It's a pretty cool species, and I was happy to have finally encountered one.

2008-04-04T09:49:00.000-07:00

I took this while driving home from Salt Lake City the last time I was there. I miss snow (although, this is probably more of a distance makes the heart grow fonder kind of thing - since I don't have to shovel walks, drive on icy roads, etc.).

2008-01-18T14:06:00.000-08:00

Bryce Canyon in September.

2008-01-11T11:10:00.000-08:00

And here's another B.C. photograph. I really need to get back up there sometime.

2008-01-11T11:01:00.000-08:00

I realized I haven't been posting on here enough. That's mainly because I haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately, but here's one from my trip to British Columbia. Obviously it could have been framed better, but it's still not bad for a photo taken while driving 50 km/h down a dirt road.

2007-12-18T16:55:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!

2007-10-29T08:45:00.000-07:00

Burned Joshua tree at Red Rock.

2007-10-15T09:14:00.000-07:00

A dead tree along the rim of Bryce Canyon.

2007-10-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

Sadly, this is about the extent of the fall colors I got to see this year.

2007-09-25T14:39:00.001-07:00

A rainy day at Brian Head. I couldn't ride my new bike, but I could take a picture of the cabin's deck.

2007-09-11T18:25:00.000-07:00

Would you like some juniper berries with your sunset? Good, I thought you might, so I took this picture while I was in Sedona. I hope you like it.

2007-09-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

Sunken boat in Gold Beach, Oregon.

2007-08-23T15:50:00.000-07:00

Sunset at Doris Lake, British Columbia.

2007-07-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

There's too much glare, and some reflections that shouldn't be in here, but all in all, I don't think it was too bad for my first attempt at photographing fish.

2007-07-05T18:27:00.000-07:00

Bellagio fountains: Enough said!

2007-06-14T17:44:00.001-07:00

I can never get enough of seeing the rock formations of Utah. This was taken in Goblin Valley, just outside the main valley with all the hoodoos.

2007-06-02T13:53:00.000-07:00

Oh the things you see on a casino's front lawn. This was taken somewhere on the south end of the Las Vegas strip.

2007-04-28T14:00:00.000-07:00

A Joshua Tree. Who says the Mojave's a desolate place?

2007-04-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

This was also taken at the Red Canyon overlook. I think it might look better if I cropped it, but I really liked how clear the reflections were.

2007-04-02T11:52:00.000-07:00

This is a tree growing at the Red Canyon overlook in the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Silouettes against a bright background almost always look cool.

2007-03-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

A slow day of fishing on the Green River. You can clearly see how it gets its name. If anyone wants to purchase a boat like this for me feel free to do so. I would love you forever.

2007-02-19T09:21:00.000-08:00

Here's the late afternoon sun on a rare cloudy day in Las Vegas. I'm pleased with the way I kept the power lines and sound wall along the freeway out of this shot (almost).

2007-02-12T17:22:00.000-08:00

Alright, so I'm double dipping with this one, but I don't care. It's the only half decent picture I've taken in a while so it's going up. It's the Colorado River a few miles below Hoover Dam.

2006-12-22T08:27:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I must have taken about 15 shots of this tree and fireplace, using all the different settings on my camera, but the one that came out best was the one I took simply using the automatic focus and the flash. Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season.

2006-12-17T11:12:00.000-08:00

This would probably look better if I just cropped it down to include only the clouds. I took this on the flight back to Vegas from Massachussetts.

2006-12-09T11:29:00.000-08:00

Ok, so my camera was totally misbehaving at the wedding I went to last weekend, but I kind of like the way this one of the bride and groom dancing came out, even if it is a tiny bit out of focus.

2006-11-28T07:37:00.000-08:00

Here's the last decent picture of fall colors for the year. I took it one handed while I was holding a big branch out of the way with my other hand. If I had more hands I could have held the branch hanging in the top left corner out as well, but alas I do not.

2006-11-12T15:45:00.000-08:00

I actually don't like this picture, but my friend does. I figured I'd let you make the decision as to whether or not it sucks.

2006-11-08T08:14:00.000-08:00

More pictures of Cedar Breaks. Is this place cool looking or what?

2006-11-02T07:27:00.000-08:00

This is from one of the overlooks at Cedar Breaks National Monument.

2006-10-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

So I basically just stole this idea from Psycho Intern, but it still looks cool, and I took this picture.

2006-10-22T17:26:00.000-07:00

And just to prove it, here's another one.

2006-10-22T17:17:00.000-07:00

I really like pictures like this that show people walking along some kind of path. This was taken in Logan Canyon just minutes before my four year old threw his cousin's tennis ball down a steep incline and into the river.

2006-10-19T07:31:00.000-07:00

A few more autumn leaves from when I was in Logan Canyon.

2006-10-05T08:30:00.000-07:00

Fall colors are great, here's one of leaf litter that I took over the weekend. More will likely follow.

2006-09-16T10:19:00.000-07:00

Are you brave enough to drink this?

2006-09-11T09:25:00.000-07:00

The sound of people chasin' money, and money gettin' away.

2006-08-19T14:13:00.000-07:00

A palm tree at dusk. This could probably look really good if it were touched up a bit in photoshop, but it's still kind of cool looking.

2006-08-11T21:22:00.000-07:00

Not great pictures, but I haven't posted anything for a while, nor have I taken any good photos recently so you're stuck with these. I hope they at least make someone want to go to the beach.

2006-07-23T12:57:00.000-07:00

Maybe not the most impressive photos ever, but it's been a while since I've posted anything and I don't think I really have much else so it'll have to do.

2006-07-09T08:06:00.000-07:00

Maybe it's because I've lived in the desert too long, but I love how green and leafy everything is along the coast in the Pacific Northwest. I should probably try to live there for a little while at least.

2006-06-23T08:30:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this isn't necessarily a good picture, but I love the look on my son's face here. He's just seen someone he wants to go after with the hose, and the look on his face says it all. He's definitely up to no good.

2006-06-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

Some wildflowers growing in a field in the Portland area. It was rainy.

2006-06-14T07:47:00.000-07:00

Here's the view from my sister's front porch. Not bad, if I do say so myself, and I do.

2006-06-06T16:26:00.000-07:00

Sunsets are cool. Here are a few of the pictures I took while I was out of town. Unfortunately, I can't quite capture the true beauty of them, but this is good enough I suppose.

2006-05-16T08:22:00.000-07:00

I stopped at Lake Tahoe for an afternoon while I was on a collecting trip. The picture doesn't show it very well, but the water is amazingly clear. It's pretty cool being a biologist when you can go places like this and call it work.

2006-05-10T09:22:00.000-07:00

This isn't the best picture in the world because the lighting isn't quite right, but it represents the last time I went on a real flyfishing trip almost two years ago. Pretty pathetic huh?

2006-04-30T15:42:00.000-07:00

Only a real nerd can truly appreciate this picture. It's an alluvial fan in Death Valley, but the different colors of each lobe represent a separate debris flow that brought material down off the mountain with the gray one being the most recent. That's what a geology course will do to a person.

2006-04-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

Flowers in Death Valley. No, they aren't natural, they were growing in a flower pot outside a gas station. See how photographs can be made to look so much better than real life?

2006-04-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

Sand dunes at Death Valley. I think I like the bottom picture best b/c of the angle.

2006-04-05T07:40:00.000-07:00

Some badlands in Death Valley. I always thought the term badlands was just a generic term to describe a really harsh desert environment, but have now learned that it's a very specific geologic feature pertaining to very fine sediments that are constantly shifting so vegetation never gets a chance to take root. If I learned it you have to too.

2006-03-27T08:45:00.000-08:00

This is at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago. My friend saw it and said it's "very Alfred Hitchcock meets Edgar Allen poe." I assume she meant that as a compliment.

2006-03-23T20:04:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine actually took this one. It's more fall leaves from our trip to Brian Head last fall.

2006-03-16T08:23:00.000-08:00

Another flower shot. I probably have too many of these, but I still think they look good so deal with it.

2006-03-10T07:49:00.000-08:00

Same Joshua tree, same sunset, but I can't decide which picture I like better so I decided to post both and let you decide (I know, they're really not that different). One thing about living in the Mojave Desert is that you see stuff like this all the time.

2006-03-06T16:26:00.000-08:00

I've been validated! My brother called me today to tell me that somebody purchased a few copies of this photo from his ebay store. I was pretty much just screwing around when I took this picture, but thought it turned out good. He put a nice border on it, and added a quote from Henry David Thorough that says something along the lines of 'some men fish all their lives without realizing that it is not the fish they are after.' I have to say that it's probably the quote that sold these, rather than the picture itself, but nonetheless I can take some pride in knowing that I'm not alone in thinking that some of my pictures are good.

2006-03-04T11:31:00.000-08:00

I went with a group of friends to Brian Head last fall, for a weekend of mountain biking and hiking. We had a lot of fun. The timing was just perfect as it was within those couple of weeks when the leaves start to turn, but before the winds had blown them all off the trees. I love it in the late afternoon when the sunlight hits the leaves just right. My brother improved this one greatly in photoshop because there used to be the bumper of a truck in the background. He removed it.

2006-03-01T14:22:00.000-08:00

Here's another picture from Death Valley. It was supposedly one of the wettest springs in 100 years so there were a LOT of wildflowers in bloom (as you can see).

2006-02-27T20:07:00.000-08:00

I took this picture a few years ago at my sister's wedding. I can't really say why I like it so much unless it's because it doesn't seem as much about the bride as most wedding pictures are. She's in it yes, but it's not as much of a posed moment so it captures a different aspect of the wedding day.

2006-02-26T09:56:00.000-08:00

While I'm on the subject, here's another picture that I took that day. It'd look better if there were actually leaves on the trees, and no smog, and if I'd been holding the camera straight, but you have to work with what you're given, right?

2006-02-26T09:45:00.000-08:00

I took this when I was in Salt Lake City for a friend's wedding last December. I've always loved the architecture of the mormon temple there. It's even more amazing when I think that it was built without all the modern technology we have. That's one reason why I'd like to go to Europe some day. I think I'd be even more amazed at some of the buildings there that have stood for several centuries.

2006-02-25T13:27:00.000-08:00

This one's really not that cool, but the water really was this color. It's right below Panguitch Lake when apparently there was a lot of algae growing in the water.

2006-02-23T07:58:00.000-08:00

This was in Yellowstone. Sadly, we couldn't find the pot of gold.

2006-02-22T22:02:00.000-08:00

I took this one while I was hiking near Bryce Canyon, UT. It would probably look better if I cropped it some, but I liked the way the light was coming through and hitting the shrubs.

2006-02-20T08:23:00.000-08:00

This is one of my favorite photos. Anyone who's been flyfishing on the Green River during the month of May will understand why. The crazy thing is that every bush along the river looked like this that day.

2006-02-18T12:48:00.000-08:00

This was in Death Valley. I had just walked from the top of this dune with a friend of mine. I thought that the shading looked cool. Especially with the footprints we left along the ridge.

2006-02-18T08:45:00.000-08:00

Just a dead tree we hiked by at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago. I thought it looked cool, but I don't know if I framed it right, or if the lighting is good for the picture.

2006-02-17T07:25:00.000-08:00

Nothing too fancy about this one, I just thought it was a pretty flower growing in my mom's flower garden.

2006-02-16T22:20:00.000-08:00

I like this picture a lot, but think that it's because of the circumstances around the day I took it rather than the photo itself. I had planned to go to Flaming Gorge with some friends to celebrate the 4th of July a few years ago. The only problem was that there was a forest fire at the time, and they had to evacuate the town of Dutch John as the fire had gotten close enough to put people in danger. The first day that they let people return to their homes we decided to go up and take a look. They were only letting people from Dutch John go up on the mountain. Luckily my friend's parents still lived there, so when they checked us to make sure our name was on the list of people to be allowed through the roadblock, he gave them his and they let us in. Of course we decided to drive around and take a look at the damage, at least as much as we could without getting into trouble with the local law enforcement. I just happened to get this shot of a Forest Service fire truck in action while we were doing so. I feel that I kind of got away with something that day, and this picture serves as a reminder of that.

2006-02-16T21:32:00.000-08:00

I like to play around with my digital camera, and every once in a while come up with a picture that I think is pretty good. I've decided to start posting some of my favorite pictures here. I don't know how often I'll post them, but thought I'd start with this wildflower picture I took out in Death Valley last spring. You'll have to let me know what you think of these as I post them.

I have others that will come in due time, but am pretty sure my posts on this blog will taper off once I get them uploaded. I don't take good photos all that often.