Last night I went for a ride up Logan Canyon to make a few photographs and collect some plants for some Lumens. I left a little early in the afternoon, so I rode quite a ways further up the trail than I’d previously ridden, and saw some real beautiful scenery, and made several mental notes of places I need to return to to photograph.
I’ve passed one of the many dams on the Logan River on each ride (I think this particular dam is the Second Lower Dam…I can’t keep them all straight right now), and have wanted to photograph it but hadn’t until last night:
Last night I went for a ride up Logan Canyon. I had originally planned on only going to the Canyon Entrance Park to make a few photographs, but once I got there I decided to continue up into the canyon and collect some plants to do some Lumens.
A little ways up the trail I found some Thimble Berry plants and pulled over to snack on some of the berries, and ended up making this photograph:
While I was here I gathered a few Thimble Berry leaves, as well as a few twigs from the trees in the left side of the photograph. When I got home, I started exposures on a couple of the plants. I’m not sure how long I’ll let them go. They’re both plants I’ve never used before, and I can’t decide if I want to let mold grow, or fix them out sooner.
I went back tonight to photograph the tree that the Parks and Recreation department has been cutting down. It’s all but completely gone.
As I mentioned in the last post, I was going to try to make it to Pioneer Parkway again to photograph the continuation of the removal of a beautiful, giant tree. I went there and they’re making good progress (not that I’m happy to see such a gorgeous tree go).
Last night I rode my bike out to Cutler Marsh, west of town (a 17-18 mile round trip). The ride out there only took about half as long as I had anticipated, so I sat at the little picnic shelter there and watched and listened to all the birds flying about and singing. A few got pretty close and I had to take a couple photographs:
A couple (now correct me if I’m wrong Darren) of Barn Swallows have a nest in the roof of the shelter and got within eight feet or so.
Then this bird landed on the fence (can you tell what kind it is Darren? It’s not the best angle)
After I was done with the birds, I got a bit serious and started looking for photographs. I didn’t come back with a whole lot of anything useful, except it being a good research trip.
On my way back home, I decided to swing by Central Park again just for fun, and I’m glad I did.
I guess the damage to this tree was so great they have to take the whole tree out, or maybe if a limb from the back of the tree goes it could cause serious damage to the power plant behind it. I’m going to go check it out again today and see how much more of the tree they remove.
Tonight I hopped on my bike and rode to Central Park to make some photographs. The park was pretty packed, so none were made in Central Park, but I managed to find a few really good photographs in the adjacent Pioneer Parkway:
I was pretty impressed with this tree and the huge scar where a (I assume) very large limb once grew:
After Pioneer Parkway, I found another adjacent park (I couldn’t find a name for it, so I assume it’s part of Pioneer Parkway, but I’m most likely wrong):
Edit: I just discovered the name of this “park” today: Garff Wayside Gardens.
Here’s one more photograph that I made last night but didn’t post for whatever reason:
I went over to Willow Park tonight to photograph and came away with a few successes:
I also discovered a cool feature on my new camera: when shooting monochrome, the camera includes settings to simulate a red, blue, or green filter, as well as different intensities of sepia and cyanotype tints. I was pretty excited. Unfortunately the monochrome didn’t come through in the import to Aperture. I’ll be trying to fix that this week.
In my last post, I mentioned I almost took a job at Island Park Scout Camp, but decided not to. I had already quit my job framing, but after deciding not to work at camp, I decided to just move down to Logan, since I already had a place rented. So when we got home on Friday (my mom, two brothers, and a sister are all working up there this year), I immediately started packing. Saturday morning, we loaded up my grandpas truck and headed south. After a construction detour through Brigham City, we finally got to Logan at about 2:00. After we got everything unpacked, we headed over to the Cache Valley Cruise In, a really big hot rod and car show held every Fourth of July weekend. We walked through fairly quickly, and then said our goodbyes, and my dad left for Idaho Falls, and I started getting settled in to my new place, which I must say, is pretty nice. So, tomorrow, I start job hunting. Yuk.