Category: Best of the Week
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2020 Week Twenty-One
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Picaso sanitizes her face shield while working at a COVID-19 testing event sponsored by Comunidades Unidas at Mid-Valley Health Clinic in Midvale on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The event was also sponsored by the Utah Partners for Health, Mid-Valley Health Clinic and the Utah Department of Health. -
2020 Week Twenty
Assignments: The Coronavirus
Assignment: Sunny
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sunny Lee works with the South Korean government to bring the families of MIA Korean War veterans to South Korea where they are honored for their family member’s service. Lee was photographed at her Springdale home on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.
Personal Work
Emigration Canyon 
Main Street. Nephi, UT 
I-15 near Beaver, UT 
Mt. Olympus Zion National Park
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2020 Week Seventeen
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Shoppers at four Salt Lake City grocery stores on Friday, April 24, 2020. Those wearing masks appear in color and those without in black and white. 
Assignment: Antelope Island State Park
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2020 Week Fifteen
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lights in the Grand America and Little America hotels display hearts in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Warnings written on the sidewalk trying to discourage the crowds of people walking in the cherry blossoms surrounding the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 11, 2020. 
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2020 Week Fourteen
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An empty plaza at The Conference Center in Salt Lake City just before The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds General Conference on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The area would usually be packed with tens of thousands of conferencegoers. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, no public attendance is permitted. In fact, the conference is coming from a “small auditorium on Temple Square.” 
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2020 Week Twelve
Assignment: Earthquake
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The scene at the Rescue Mission of Salt Lake after an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The statue of Moroni atop the Salt Lake temple, damaged in an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Curt Green works to remove loose brick from the roof of Caffé Molise, damaged in an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bricks that fell from the facade of Red Rooster Records in Magna after last week’s earthquake, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A closure notice due to COVID-19 is covered up by a warning notice after earthquake damage to the VFW Post in Magna, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Damage to Colosimo’s Market in Magna from last week’s earthquake, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.
Assignments: Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A security guard looks out from the closed City Creek Mall in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Men in a parking lot in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A lone woman walks along 300 West as Salt Lake City continues to shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man looks at his phone in an empty Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elysian Burial Gardens in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 19, 2020.
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2020 Week Eleven
Assignments: The Coronavirus
Press Conference from the Emergency Operations Center
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Michael Good, CEO of University of Utah Health, at a news conference in the state’s Emergency Operations Center on Thursday, March 12, 2020 addressing the current state of COVID-19 in Utah. Representatives from the Utah System of Higher Education, the Utah Board of Education, Utah Jazz, local health authorities and Utah Department of Health were also present. Restaurant Closure Decree
Masks
Just before the ski resorts closed
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers at Snowbird on Friday, March 13, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers at Snowbird on Friday, March 13, 2020.
Meanwhile on State Street
And Elsewhere
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2020 Week Ten
As I wrote last week photography is in the forefront of everything I’m doing right now. Looking through this week’s photographs it’s the way to go. Ditch the podcasts, stop reading social media, ignore the political soap opera, stop watching mediocre streaming content. Get out there and create!
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) UDOH State Epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn answers questions as Utah health officials announce the state’s second case of COVID-19, at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
Assignment: The LDS Church’s $100 Billion in Investments
Each block in the center tower represents $1 billion. I documented the process of building this illustration at this link: https://www.thetrickstergod.com/2020/03/13/illustrating-100-billion-dollars/
Assignment: Protest over LDS Church’s Schools Honor Code Changes regarding LGBT Students
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators at a rally about BYU’s changing position on “romantic behavior” by same-sex couples march around the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators at a rally about BYU’s changing position on “romantic behavior” by same-sex couples gather in front of the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2020.
Hurricane, Utah
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2020 Week Nine
New Blog: Rough Draft
I made a big change on March 1st, moving photography to the forefront of what I do on a daily basis. I’m spending much more time with the camera to eye. To keep my mind in a creative space I exchanged podcasts for music. And I started to publish my work on a more real-time basis on a new blog: Rough Draft (@thetrickstergod on Twitter).
The format on the blog is starting to stabilize. I photograph constantly, am buried in editing, and post as I catch my breath. I will be writing there as well. A lot of the photographs from Rough Draft will be in my Instagram story (@trenthead).
So the landscape is this –
Rough Draft – blog – a free-flow of successes and failures as I create them, as well as links to stuff that is cool.
Trent.Photo – archive – my best / important / personal work. Heavily tagged, cross-referenced by subject, location, band, team, etc.
Trenthead.Com – only my best work compiled by week.
Assignment: Mitt Romney
Assignment: Utah’s first cannabis pharmacy opens
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mario Enriquez, a patient, livestreams as Dragonfly Wellness becomes the first of Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies to open for business in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 2, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dragonfly Wellness becomes the first of Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies to open for business in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 2, 2020.
Assignment: UTA 50th Birthday
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A GM “Old Look” transit bus from the Salt Lake city line on display to mark the 50th birthday of UTA at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Buses of this type were produced between 1940 and 1959. -
2020 Week Eight
Assignment: Mike Lee town hall
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mike Lee answers questions at a town hall in Draper on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020.
Assignment: Family-run nursery
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alex Kuwahara in one of his Sandy greenhouses on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. City officials are threatening to shut down Kuwahara Wholesale, a family-run plant nursery that has been operating in the community for years, saying it is violation of ordinances requiring a business license.
Assignment: Night Skiing
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A skier photographs the fading sunset during a night skiing session at Brighton on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.
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2020 Week Seven
Assignment: Celebrating Suffrage
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Surrounded by female legislators, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs a joint resolution celebrating women’s suffrage in Utah, part of the celebration of suffrage at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. To the right of Herbert is First Lady Jeanette Herbert.
Assignment: Speed Skating
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Yamato Matsui (Japan) competes in Men Team Sprint at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. 
State Street
Assignment: Mayor Pete
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks at The Union Event Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. -
2020 Week Six
State Street
Assignment:
Bald EaglesRed Tailed Hawks
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A pair of red-tailed hawks at the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Two chances to see bald eagles in northern Utah will be available from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 8. Spotting scopes will be in place at the Salt Creek Waterfowl Management Area and the Farmington Bay WMA. -
2020 Week Five
Assignment: Silicon Slopes Tech Summit
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Screens in the Sponsor Pavilion at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.
Assignment: Mark Zuckerberg
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.
Assignment: New Deacons
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Five men were ordained to the Office of Deacon at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.
Assignment: Sundance Film Festival Awards Night
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Radha Blank reacts to winning the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award for her film The 40-Year-Old Version at the Awards Night Ceremony for the Sundance Film Festival in Kimball Junction on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020.
Assignment: Rally against the Inland Port
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chelsie Kemper at a rally against the Inland Port at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020.
Sunset
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2020 Week Four
Assignment: Utah v Arizona State
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Abby Paulson on the beam as the University of Utah hosts Arizona State, NCAA gymnastics in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.
State Street Pigeons
realized I made my first attempt at this photo in October 2019. Two weeks after the shot above, I topped this version
Assignment: Utah Jazz v Dallas Mavericks
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) as the Utah Jazz host the Dallas Mavericks, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020.
State Capitol
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2020 Week Three
Assignment: Mike Bloomberg
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg speaks in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020.
Assignment: Utah Jazz v Sacramento Kings
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) in the fourth quarter as the Utah Jazz host the Sacramento Kings, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. -
2020 Week Two
Assignment: Weber State President
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brad Mortensen performs a duet with Ling-Yu Lee at his inauguration as the president of Weber State University in Ogden on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020.
Moonrise
Assignment: Jazz v Hornets
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) defending Charlotte Hornets guard Terry Rozier (3) as the Utah Jazz host the Charlotte Hornets, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020.
Assignment: Best of the West NCAA Gymnastics
Killyon Canyon
