Jer & Min Photography

The past few days we’ve had quite a bit of stormy weather.  Unfortunately, the storm clouds were slow and unfeatured which made for very uninteresting skies.  Tonight the storm broke and the sky got much more interesting.  This shot is the last of the storm as it passed on to the Uintas to the East of our house.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot s410, 1/640 sec, f/3.5

I received a tip from Wouter Brandsma who knows a thing or two about black and white landscape photography about keeping the aperture higher with compact cameras, this is my attempt at following that.  Seriously, check out his site.

The entire time we have lived in our neighborhood, there has been a large cottonwood tree a field about 200 yards from our house.  It is referred to as the “tree house” by the kids in the area.  Our kids loved it.  I speak in past tense because it was cut down a couple weeks ago.  It is nothing but a distant memory now.  Fortunately, we also have some photographic memories of it as well.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot s410, 1/100 sec, f/2.8, taken June 14, 2008

EXIF: Canon PowerShot s410, 1/125 sec, f/2.8, taken June 14, 2008

Min and I live in a very beautiful area near the Uinta mountains.  Currently, in Kamas, the fall colors are out in full glory.  To add to the beauty we have had some very nice thunderstorms over the past few days.  Yesterday in a slight break in the storms, some light splashed upon the mountain East of our house.  The mountain with it’s colored leaves lit up in an amazing way.  I stepped out the front door, leaned against the side of the house to steady my shot and made this photograph.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot S410, 1/125 sec, f/11

This past Saturday, my wife, kids, and I climbed to the top of Bald Mountain near Mirror Lake in the Uintas East of Kamas, UT.  Bald Mountain is just under 12,000 feet in elevation.  When we began at the trail head, there were a number of other peaks higher than us.  As we climbed up, we slowly passed each one until we were at the top.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot S410, 1/640 sec, f7.1

I’ve contemplated what would be the first photograph I publish on our sight for sometime now.  I’ve posted photographs on my family website on many occasions with very little apprehension.  I believe I feel a bit nervous here because this is the first time I’m really announcing that I’m actually trying to make photographs instead of just taking snap shots.

This photograph was made during a recent family reunion in Star Valley WY.  We were up at a favorite get away for our family, Cottonwood Lake East of Smoot WY.  While there, I saw my daughter and my father by one another and asked them to pose.  I wish I had a better camera, more specifically, a better lens.  I took this rather close with a wide angle lens which of course exaggerated facial features in a very unflattering manner.  I did however, enjoy the subject and the contrast as I converted this to black and white.

EXIF: Sony DSC-W50, 1/160 sec, f/2.8, ISO 80