Pastel Paradise

Last weekend I paid my first visit to the Holi Festival of Colors at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, UT. I had heard of the event for a couple years running, and of course saw all the photos from the festival posted on Facebook, but I put off going because I wasn't crazy about exposing my camera equipment to 5,000 college students throwing chalk in the air.

Luckily, thanks in part to a helpful article from another local photographer, I made the Saturday morning journey this year. Five hours, fifty crowd surfers, and 1,039 photos later, here are the results:

About ten minutes after the first color throw, what had been a snow-covered hillside became a muddy hillside, and the revelers took full advantage...

Tiny Lights

Made a few runs to Temple Square over the holidays...trying to take advantage of the great photo opportunities. After a while, I would inevitably start goofing around, trying to find a new way to interpret a heavily-covered subject.

Here are a few of the shots I came up with:

On another night I drove up to the Bountiful Temple to see what I could find up there. Just like in Salt Lake, fatigue and frigid temperatures started to impact the results:

Temple Square Christmas 2009

They say that pain is temporary and film is forever. Well, I hope so, because by the time I finished shooting these last week my fingers were so numb I couldn't even feel the shutter release on my camera.