Category: Best of the Week
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2019 Week Thirty-Eight
Assignment: Antelope Island Bison
Assignment: Kings v Canucks
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2019 Week Thirty-Seven
Assignment: BYU v USC
Yellow
Assignment: Real Salt Lake v San Jose Earthquakes
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2019 Week Thirty-Six
Assignment: Elton John
Assignment: Fire Aftermath
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2019 Week Thirty-Five
Assignment: BYU v Utah
Assignment: Magnet Fishing (for guns)
Assignment: I-15 Traffic
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2019 Week Thirty-Four
Assignment: Utah Renaissance Faire
State Street
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2019 Week Thirty-Three
Assignment: Inland Port Meeting
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2019 Week Thirty-Two
Assignment: Tour of Utah Prologue
Assignment: Douglass Lovell Hearing
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2019 Week Thirty-One
Malaysia
Cambodia
Ta Prohm
Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom
Angkor Wat
Hanoi
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2019 Week Thirty
Singapore
Malaysia
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2019 Week Twenty-Nine
Catching up…
…on some things from the summer, thanks again to SLUG:
[contentcards url=”https://www.slugmag.com/art-fashion/trent-nelson-photographer-for-the-outsider/”]
I have posted a e-zine of my photos from 1987 California:
[contentcards url=”https://1987.trent.photo/california/”]
And my e-zine The Idaho Experience, 1987 is here:
[contentcards url=”https://1987.trent.photo/idaho/”]
Singapore
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2019 Week Twenty-Eight
Assignment: Inland Port Protest
Assignment: Governor Herbert Responds to Inland Port Protest
Assignment: Murder Charges
Summer
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2019 Week Twenty-Seven
Assignment: 4th of July
Assignment: Body of Missing Woman Found
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2019 Week Twenty-Six
Riverton PD
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2019 Week Twenty-Five
Assignment: Ritt Momney at Kilby Court
Yellowstone Bear World
Storm and Sunset
Driving North
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2019 Week Twenty-Four
Tuesday
Chilling and fascinating reading: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. This is a masterpiece.
They flung us there, like sand unto the reactor…At first there was disbelief, there was the sense that it was a game. But it was a real war, an atomic war. We had no idea—what’s dangerous and what’s not, what should we watch out for, and what to ignore? No one knew…Every April 26, we get together, the guys who were there. We remember how it was. You were a soldier, at war, you were necessary. We forget the bad parts and remember that. We remember that they couldn’t have made it without us. Our system, it’s a military system, essentially, and it works great in emergencies. You’re finally free there, and necessary. Freedom! And in those times the Russian shows how great he is. How unique. We’ll never be Dutch or German. And we’ll never have proper asphalt and manicured lawns. But there’ll always be plenty of heroes.
and this
Why aren’t you writing this down? What I’m saying? You only write down what you want to hear. Giving people ideas. Saying things. You need political capital, is that it? Stuff your pockets with dollars? We live here, we survive here. No one’s guilty! Show me the guilty ones! I’m for the Communists. They’ll come back and they’ll find the guilty ones. F*ck! Coming around here, writing things down.
Wednesday
Yesterday I heard a comedian quote a vaudevillian: “They only remember the home runs.”
Doubling down on this even more than before.
Modern. 16 frames per second, magic autofocus tracking, zoom lenses.
Traditional. Manual focus, composition, the decisive moment, single frame drive mode.
Those are the two beliefs. Both are true.
The best photographer will be operating in two states – using traditional creative skills to identify the best form of the photograph in front of you, then the modern technology to ensure that the frame is captured (I hate that word). And then, finally, that in the editing process that the exact as-close-to-perfect frame is selected and displayed.
Assignment: Black Lives Matter Protest
State Street
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2019 Week Twenty-Two
B & J
Jordan River Parkway
Utah Pride Festival