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I love to travel and often have my camera with me so I can capture the scenes around me. It's a bonus if my adventurous wife or courageous kids are able to tag along. We love road trips, hiking, camping, exploring, airplane trips, Disneyland vacations, and anything that allows us to create memories. I have enjoyed photography for more than half my life, starting with point-and-shoots as a teenager and gravitating into DSLRs. My photography passions include landscapes, the night sky and macro, and more recently, photographing temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I love to tell stories, whether through video, photo or the written word.

By Carltonaut February 21, 2012

Weekly Photo Challenge: Down

While contemplating various ways of participating in this week’s The Daily Post at WordPress.com weekly photo challenge, I decided a family trip on President’s Day to Boondocks for a little bowling … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Down

By Carltonaut February 20, 2012

Flags at Washington Monument

In honor of President’s Day, I thought I would share this photo from a trip to Washington, D.C, in February 2009. Before the trip, I rented a fish-eye lens from … Continue reading Flags at Washington Monument

By Carltonaut February 19, 2012

Depth of field in food photography

My wife makes one delicious apple crisp. The recipe is simple, and with a few substitutions, it’s dairy free because my youngest son has a dairy allergy. I must note that … Continue reading Depth of field in food photography

By Carltonaut February 17, 2012

Weekly CTE Photo Challenge – G is for Game

The CTE photo challenge letter for this week was G. I had a few ideas in mind, but Game is the one I landed on. I thought of games like … Continue reading Weekly CTE Photo Challenge – G is for Game

By Carltonaut February 16, 2012

UTA’s Trax in downtown Salt Lake

I’ve seen many shots where the moving subject is clear and crisp, and the non-moving objects around it are blurred. Well, this was one of my first attempts to take … Continue reading UTA’s Trax in downtown Salt Lake

By Carltonaut February 13, 2012

Valentine’s Day Bokeh Photography

I had never even heard of bokeh photography, and when I saw some bokeh photos from DailySnaps: 2012 blog last month , I thought I knew how to do it. So a few … Continue reading Valentine’s Day Bokeh Photography

By Carltonaut February 11, 2012

Star-spangled Bottles

This photo has been years in the making. I thought of the concept a few years ago, spent a few months buying Jones Soda so I could collect the bottles, … Continue reading Star-spangled Bottles

By Carltonaut February 9, 2012

HD Hero2 v. Jimmy-rigging for Hawaii

When I found out my wife and I were taking an extended family trip to St. Thomas, I really wanted to be able to take underwater photos; but not with … Continue reading HD Hero2 v. Jimmy-rigging for Hawaii

By Carltonaut February 6, 2012

Capturing the splash

I’ve seen a lot of photos of water splashes and thought, “why don’t I try?” So, here is one of the shots I ended up with after about two hours … Continue reading Capturing the splash