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Category: Core

  • Week Two

    Week Two

    Assignment: Utah v Colorado

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Utes forward Timmy Allen (1) drives on Colorado Buffaloes forward Jeriah Horne (41) as Utah hosts Colorado, NCAA basketball in Salt Lake City on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021.

    Assignment: The Virus – Online School

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kate Bowen, a ninth grader at Hillcrest Junior High, does online schoolwork at her home in Murray on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Ivy, a cocktail bar in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.
  • Week One

    Week One

    Assignment: Inauguration of Gov. Spencer Cox

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The inauguration of Spencer Cox as Utah’s 18th Governor at Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Ivins on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021.

    Assignment: Pro-Trump rally

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rev. Nurjhan Govan with “Tiny” at her Taylorsville home on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Govan was living in her car with 10 Yorkies who were then taken by the Animal Protection dept, alleging mistreatment. She got four of them back, and hopes for the rest to be returned sometime this spring.
  • Week Fifty-Two

    Week Fifty-Two

    Assignment: Gillmor Santuary

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ella Sorensen, manager of Audubon’s Gillmor Sanctuary on the Great Salt Lake’s South Shore on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020.

    Assignment: Utah Jazz v Minnesota Timberwolves

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A limited number of fans watch the Utah Jazz host the Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA basketball at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020.

    Watching 2020 End

  • Week Fifty-One

    Week Fifty-One

    Assignment: The Weather

    Memory Grove

    Assignment: Food Distribution

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gia stands next to her mother Kajsa after picking up bags of food at Liberty Elementary in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Victoria Palauni, right, carries bags of food for a mother in need in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Palauni is the coordinator at the Community Learning Center at Liberty Elementary.

    Assignment: Utah basketball

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah players huddle before facing Idaho, NCAA basketball in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.

    Kids These Days…

  • Week Fifty

    Week Fifty

    Assignment: Clearing the Camps

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City police officers working the cleanup of a series of campsites in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. An activist is arrested after a group stood in front of a police car, not allowing it to pass.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man looks on during the cleanup of a series of campsites in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.

    Assignment: The Virus

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) students with masks, art project at Crescent Elementary in Sandy on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020.

    Assignment: Utah v Montana State

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Utes forward Peyton McFarland (42) and Montana State Bobcats forward Skye Lindsay (22) reach for a rebound as Utah hosts Montana State, NCAA basketball in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.
    Utah basketball v Montana State, NCAA basketball

    State Street

    42

  • Week Forty-Nine

    Week Forty-Nine

    Assignment: The Virus

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An empty classroom at Northwest Middle School in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Players stand for the National Anthem as Utah hosts Washington, NCAA basketball at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020.
  • Week Forty-Eight

    Week Forty-Eight

    Assignment: City Creek

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Holiday decorations at City Creek in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020.

    Lone Peak

    95 State

    Provo Canyon

  • Week Forty-Seven

    Week Forty-Seven

    Self-Assigned:

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tisha Olsen of Project Rainbow sets up Trans Pride flags to mark Transgender Awareness Week at City Hall in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Each of the more than 300 Trans Pride flags stands in remembrance of a transgender person murdered in the last year.
    City Creek, SLC
    SLC
    95 State, SLC
    Thanksgiving Point

    Assignment: Corner Canyon v Lone Peak, State Championship Football

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Corner Canyon’s Jackson Light holds the trophy while celebrating with teammates after the 6A state football championship game against Lone Peak at Cedar Valley High School in Eagle Mountain on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.
  • Week Forty-Six

    Week Forty-Six

    Assignment: COVID-19 Testing

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Evandro Semedo tests Genisis Magana, in the arms of her mother Carla Miron, at the Utah National Guard’s mobile testing site for COVID-19 in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020.
  • Week Forty-Five

    Week Forty-Five

    Assignment: Election Day

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A group of Trump supporters wave flags on the corner of 2100 S State Street in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jaime Ortega films a video as he puts his ballot in a drop box at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

    Election Result

    State Street

  • Week Forty-Four

    Week Forty-Four

    Assignment: More on the new airport

  • Week Forty-Three

    Week Forty-Three

    Assignment: Police shooting two years later

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Annie Esposito recounts how her son Jason was shot and killed by police in 2018, at a news conference in Riverton on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020.

    I’m sitting here thinking that I need to put something down under this photograph of Annie. I’ll never forget the moment, listening to her tell the story from a few feet away. So many mothers I have photographed. Posting this photo is not about showing off any photographic skills I brought to Riverton. What needs to be acknowledged is Annie’s sacrifice to retell her story and the pain she feels two years later. How can we best help each other heal from tragedy?

    Two gifs that I finally got around to finishing

  • Week Forty-Two

    Week Forty-Two

    The Virus

  • Week Forty-One

    Week Forty-One

    Assignment: Protest outside the Vice Presidential Debate

    Assignment: Coronavirus

  • October 9, 2020

    I’m focused on camera weight. Obsessed with it. Here are the weights of cameras that would work for what I do, from lightest to heaviest:

    Sony A7C | 509 g
    Fuji X-T4 | 607 g
    Leica M10-R | 660 g
    Sony A7RIV | 665 g
    Nikon Z7 | the 675 g
    Sony A9ii | 678 g
    Leica Q2 | 734 g
    Canon R5 | 738 g
    Leica SL2 | 835 g
    Nikon D6 | 1270 g
    Canon 1DX-3 | 1440 g

    Looking at the numbers…

    Arguably the best camera on the market (and the heaviest on my list) weighs three times as much as the lightest one ?.

    The A7C has my attention today. The idea of something small yet responsive… ?

    The lightest camera on my list is the cheapest, and newest. ?

    My number one choice on the list weighs half what the heaviest does. ?

    What would I need for the A7C to be worthwhile?

    Most likely I’d put a 21/4 or 21/1.4 on it. But could also see an 85/1.4 (AF).

    Likes: USB charging, the AF,

    Bad: No shutter speed dial on top.

    .:.

    I’ve been looking at my work from pervious years, where I’ve noticed different approaches I was doing through periods in the past. One that I wanted to bring back around is panoramas. In the past I was taking a lot of swing panoramas with the X100.

    So I got out the X100F and for a couple of days was taking swing panoramas again, letting the camera build the massive JPEG files.

    Then I was doing some downtown at night with slow shutter speeds and realized I’d have to shoot and assemble it manually.

    That was the last time I shot a swing panorama. The difference in quality was serious. From now on, shooting those one frame at a time and assembling later.

    .:.

    Also, electronic shutter and silence – so tempting. And then you see the photos you made from the passenger seat. Where did those triangles come from. Back to mechanical shutter, after a luckily short period.

  • Week Forty

    Week Forty

    Assignment: Susan and Xayvier

  • Week Thirty-Nine

    Week Thirty-Nine

  • Week Thirty-Eight

    Week Thirty-Eight

    Assignment: Education/Coronavirus

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Meadowlark Elementary School teacher John Arthur interacting with his students on Zoom, in Salt Lake City on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Arthur is working through the kinks of teaching his 6th grade kids, many of which don’t have internet access, online. He is a candidate for Utah Teacher of the Year.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Riverton Elementary teacher Donna Filion’s 5th grade class works on a science-based scavenger hunt in a small grove of mature trees at the school on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020.

    Assignment: Press Conference – Police Shooting

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City mayor Erin Mendenhall speaks at a news conference on the release of video showing another police shooting in Salt Lake City, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020.
  • Week Thirty-Seven

    Week Thirty-Seven

    Assignment: Windstorm

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Trees were knocked over by high winds in Presidents Circle at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Trees were knocked over by high winds in President’s Circle at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Trees downed in Liberty Park during Tuesday’s high winds, in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Trees downed in Liberty Park during Tuesday’s high winds, in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A tree downed by Tuesday’s high winds that landed on a car along Downington Avenue in Salt Lake City, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nick Kuzmack and his mother Frances Rowsell play chess by candlelight in their Salt Lake City home on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. They have been without power since Tuesday’s high winds.
  • Week Thirty-Six

    Week Thirty-Six

    Walmart Field Guide Set #2

    Assignment: Protest

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protesters march at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The protest called for President Ruth Watkins to resign and for the campus police department to be dissolved..
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protesters put up posters at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The protest called for President Ruth Watkins to resign and for the campus police department to be dissolved..

    Assignment: Protest Against Mask Mandates

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A rally protesting government mask mandates at the State Capitol inSalt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A rally protesting government mask mandates at the State Capitol inSalt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A rally protesting government mask mandates at the State Capitol inSalt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A rally protesting government mask mandates at the State Capitol inSalt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Children rip up a large paper mask at a rally protesting government mask mandates at the State Capitol inSalt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A rally protesting government mask mandates at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.