Category: Core

  • 2019 Week Twenty-Eight

    2019 Week Twenty-Eight

    Assignment: Inland Port Protest

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An anarchy flag in front of city hall before protesters occupied the Chamber of Commerce Building in Salt Lake City on Tuesday July 9, 2019.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Police take a woman into custody while removing protesters occupying the Chamber of Commerce Building Salt Lake City on Tuesday July 9, 2019.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Police struggle with protesters for control of a door at the Chamber of Commerce Building Salt Lake City on Tuesday July 9, 2019.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Police struggle with protesters for control of a door at the Chamber of Commerce Building Salt Lake City on Tuesday July 9, 2019.

    Assignment: Governor Herbert Responds to Inland Port Protest

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Governor Gary Herbert arrives at a news conference to condemn the actions of protesters who occupied the Chamber of Commerce Building Tuesday. Herbert spoke in Salt Lake City on Wednesday July 10, 2019.

    Assignment: Murder Charges

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill becomes emotional while announcing charges against Ayoola Ajayi in the disappearance and homicide of MacKenzie Lueck. The announcement was made at a news conference in Salt Lake City on Wednesday July 10, 2019. From left are Heather Lindsay, Josh Graves, Marc Mathis, and Gill.

    Summer

  • 2019 Week Twenty-Seven

    2019 Week Twenty-Seven

    Assignment: 4th of July

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fireworks at the 4th of July Celebration at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, Thursday July 4, 2019.

    Assignment: Body of Missing Woman Found

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown and Mayor Jackie Biskupski after announcing the finding of the body of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck in Logan Canyon, at a news conference in Salt Lake City, Friday July 5, 2019.

  • 2019 Week Twenty-Six

    2019 Week Twenty-Six

    Riverton PD

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Riverton decided to break off from the Unified Police Department and create its own police department. It’s now swearing in all the officers hired , Tuesday June 25, 2019.



  • 2019 Week Twenty-Five

    2019 Week Twenty-Five

    Assignment: Ritt Momney at Kilby Court

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jack Rutter performs with his solo project Ritt Momney at Kilby Court in Salt Lake City on Monday June 24, 2019.

    Yellowstone Bear World


    Storm and Sunset


    Driving North

  • 2019 Week Twenty-Four

    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

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Owen Burket, 11, holds a sign reading “Will I Be Next” at a protest organized by Black Lives Matter and other groups at the Woods Cross Police Department on Friday June 14, 2019. The rally was to show support for DJ Hrubes, a 10-year-old black child who was held at gunpoint by a police officer last week while playing in his grandmother’s front yard.

    State Street

  • 2019 Week Twenty-Three

    2019 Week Twenty-Three

    Main Street

    Assignment: Transportation

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A UTA TRAX train at the City Center station in Salt Lake City is reflected in a pillar on Wednesday June 5, 2019.

    Assignment: DJ

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) D.J. Hrubes at a news conference in Salt Lake City on Friday June 7, 2019 regarding an incident between him and a Woods Cross police officer yesterday.

    Assignment: One Year Later

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Erin Cooper remembers her sister Joslyn Spilsbury, in Salt Lake City on Saturday June 8, 2019. One year after Spilsbury was killed outside of a Starbucks in Millcreek, prosecutors still haven’t charged the driver with a crime.

    Corona Arch
  • 2019 Week Twenty-Two

    2019 Week Twenty-Two

    B & J


    Jordan River Parkway

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cyclists along the Jordan River Parkway in South Salt Lake on Thursday May 30, 2019.

    Utah Pride Festival

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Shecock & the Rock Princess performs at the Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City on Saturday June 1, 2019.
  • 2019 Week Twenty-One

    2019 Week Twenty-One

    Memorial Day


    Assignment: Pro-Choice Rally


    Assignment: State Championship Soccer

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Olympus’s Ian Jones (1) fouls Brighton’s Braxton Jones (5), setting up a penalty kick and score as Brighton defeats Olympus High School 3-2 in overtime in the 5A boys state championship game at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Thursday May 23, 2019.
  • 2019 Week Twenty

    2019 Week Twenty

    Roosevelt, Utah

    Beyond this door…

    Grand America Hotel


    Assignment: Real Salt Lake v Toronto FC

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando (18) as Real Salt Lake hosts Toronto FC, MLS Soccer at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy on Saturday May 18, 2019.
  • 2019 Week Nineteen

    2019 Week Nineteen

    Assignment: Capitol Reef National Park

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hickman Natural Bridge in Capitol Reef National Park on Friday May 10, 2019.

    Assignment: Utah Royals FC v Houston Dash

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Royals FC forward Amy Rodriguez (8) celebrates her first half goal as Utah Royals FC hosts the Houston Dash at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy on Saturday May 11, 2019. At left is Gunnhildur Jonsdottir.

  • 2019 Week Eighteen

    2019 Week Eighteen

    Assignment: BYU v Utah Softball

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The evening sun flares the lens as BYU fan Troy Beagley watches BYU host the University of Utah, NCAA softball in Provo on Wednesday May 1, 2019.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The setting sun flares the lens as Utah’s Ally Dickman walks to the dugout. BYU hosts the University of Utah, NCAA softball in Provo on Wednesday May 1, 2019.

    Assignment: University of Utah Commencement

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pastor France Davis speaks at the University of Utah’s commencement ceremony, in Salt Lake City on Thursday May 2, 2019.

    Second Place x3

    Second Place, Spot News Photograph: Top of the Rockies.
    Second Place, Best News Photograph: Utah Press Association.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A plane dropping retardant on the Dollar Ridge Fire is dwarfed by smoke, in Duchesne County, Tuesday July 3, 2018.
    Second Place, Best Sports Photograph, Utah Press Association.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lehi vs. Desert Hills, 4A State high school basketball tournament at Utah Valley University in Orem, Thursday March 1, 2018. Lehi players rush the court to celebrate their win.
  • 2019 Week Seventeen

    2019 Week Seventeen

    Assignment: Studying the Spring Runoff

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben Abbott, Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at BYU, takes measurements and samples at the Benjamin Slough on Thursday April 25, 2019.

    Hiking Through Arches


    Assignment: El Día Del Niño

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dancers from Ballet Folklorico perform at Hillsdale Elementary on Tuesday April 30, 2019. The West Valley School celebrated Children’s Day, a national observance in Mexico.
  • 2019 Week Sixteen

    2019 Week Sixteen

    Assignment: Groundbreaking

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The groundbreaking ceremony for Pamela’s Place Apartments in Salt Lake City on Wednesday April 17, 2019. The development, named after Pamela Atkinson, a Utah-based humanitarian and advocate for people experiencing homelessness, will serve as a 100-unit permanent supportive housing complex by combining affordable housing assistance with voluntary support services to address the needs of chronically homeless people.

    Assignment: Temple Square

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday April 18, 2019.

    Assignment: Easter Mass

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Easter Mass at Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in West Valley City on Sunday April 21, 2019.

    Assignment: Flood Warnings

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Wayne Hill walks alongside a road covered with water as he prepares for possible flooding at his home on the banks of the South Fork Ogden River east of Huntsville on Monday April 22, 2019.
  • 2019 Week Fifteen

    2019 Week Fifteen

    Assignment: The effect of domestic violence on children

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Michelle Densley with her son Edison in her apartment in Salt Lake County on Monday April 8, 2019.

    Assignment: Greeted with hugs and tears, nearly 100 Utah National Guard members return home after a Middle East deployment

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Samantha Taylor embraces her husband, Specialist Alex Taylor, as almost 100 Soldiers from Utah Army National Guard’s Echo Battery, 1st Battalion, 145th Field Artillery, “Big Red” return after a 10-month Middle East deployment, on Tuesday April 9, 2019 at Wright Air Base in Salt Lake City.

    Assignment: Planned Parenthood, ACLU announce federal lawsuit aimed at striking down Utah’s new 18-week abortion ban

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the ACLU of Utah hold a news conference on Utah’s pending 18-week abortion ban, at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday April 10, 2019.

    Assignment: go out and find something

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Workers on a high-rise at 1300 East and I-80 in Salt Lake City on Thursday April 11, 2019.

  • 2019 Week Fourteen

    2019 Week Fourteen

    Masked Intruder

    The Interrupters

    Assignment: General Conference

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A kiss received during the morning session of the189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday April 7, 2019.

    Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

    The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

    Church Leadership

    Church leaders. The189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday April 7, 2019.

    Assignment: ‘It was like the end of the world’: Shop owner recounts robbery suspect crashing truck into his South Salt Lake business and police shootout

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The scene of a shootout near 3300 South State Street in South Salt Lake on Monday April 8, 2019.
  • 2019 Week Thirteen

    2019 Week Thirteen

    Assignment: Karaoke

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Liz Adeola sings a song at Heart & Seoul Karaoke, a new business in Salt Lake City that has private karaoke rooms that people can rent for singing fun. Tuesday March 26, 2019.

    Katmandu

    State Street, SLC

    Assignment: Hotdogs

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hot dogs at Weinerschnitzel in Orem on Wednesday March 27, 2019. Business students from Brigham Young University are competing in a national advertising competition to change public perceptions of the much maligned hot dog.

    State Street, Orem

    Assignment: Cindreia’s Mother

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) LaToya Mack talks about her daughter, Cindreia Simone Europe, in Murray on Friday March 29, 2019. Europe was run over by a Unified Police Department officer in a Millcreek parking lot on March 5 2019.

    Level Crossing

  • 2019 Week Twelve

    2019 Week Twelve

    This photo is a reminder to slow down and look. Especially before the subject drives off.

    Assignment: Auburn v New Mexico State, NCAA Tournament

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) New Mexico State Aggies guard Clayton Henry (5) on top of Auburn Tigers guard J’Von McCormick (12) as Auburn faces New Mexico State in the 2019 NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake City on Thursday March 21, 2019.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) New Mexico State Aggies forward Johnny McCants (35), Auburn Tigers forward Anfernee McLemore (24), Auburn Tigers guard Bryce Brown (2) and New Mexico State Aggies guard Trevelin Queen (20) as Auburn faces New Mexico State in the 2019 NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake City on Thursday March 21, 2019.

    Assignment: Spring Weather

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) With snow powdering the mountains, a pair of joggers run in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House Park on a sunny Monday March 25, 2019.

    Assignment: Utah Jazz v Phoenix Suns

    Jimmer Fredette
  • 2019 Week 11

    2019 Week 11

    Heather Bennett

    We lost a true champion of our children this week. A friend who had made a difference in many lives, especially those of my two children. Heather we will never forget you and the kindness you freely gave.

    Heather Bennett performing a math wiz ceremony in a 3rd grade class, November 2006.

    Assignment: Dreamscapes



    Assignment: Climate Change Walkout & Rally

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Miranda and Valerie Kemeny hold signs as students gather to call for action on climate change at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday March 15, 2019.


    Tough week.

  • 2019 Week 10

    2019 Week 10

    Some weeks are meant to be forgotten. Welcome to this one.


    Assignment: This cannabis patient is believed to be the first in Utah to face drug charges since the new state law was enacted. Prosecutors later dropped all counts.

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jason Harris at a press conference in Salt Lake City on Wednesday March 6, 2019. Harris was charged with possession of a controlled substance after being found with medical cannabis. The charges were dropped.

    I’m getting a lot of practice taking photos of people choking up at press conferences.


    This week on xxx xxx: wrong information, vague directions, unclear guidance. Nothing I didn’t already know, but I would have been better off playing it conservative instead of trying to outwit reality. None was serious but then when you work alone you overanalyze it over and over.

    The rules I remind myself of: don’t trust or pass on any information unless you check it out, don’t settle for incomplete direction, and why did you xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx didn’t you just shoot from the public street?


    Assignment: Utah Jazz v Oklahoma City Thunder

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) celebrates a three-pointer as the Utah Jazz host the Oklahoma City Thunder, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Monday March 11, 2019.
  • 2019 Week Nine

    2019 Week Nine

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) as the Utah Jazz host the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday March 2, 2019.

    Assignment: Utah Jazz v Milwaukee Bucks

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45), drenched on the court during a post-game interview as the Utah Jazz host the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday March 2, 2019.

    Assignment: Press Conference on Vapes

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
    Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, speaks at a news conference on the current status of House Bill 252, Electronic Cigarette and Other Nicotine Product Amendments. Wednesday Feb. 27, 2019 in Salt Lake City.

    Assignment: Planned Parenthood Rally

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and supporters gathered in a silent protest in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda Friday March 1, 2019, while a 12-foot birdhouse art installation broadcast statements from Utah constituents.

    Assignment: Utah Jazz v New Orleans Pelicans

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) dunks as the Utah Jazz host the New Orleans Pelicans, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Monday March 4, 2019.

    Thinking about how using the Leica has made my vision health more creative… Manual focus has been a good thing. Rephrase – Manual focus with the 21mm has been no problem at all. Manual focus with the 50/1.1 is challenging and I’m not using that lens enough to master the physical aspect of focusing on moving subjects.

    The 35 Summicron hasn’t been seeing a lot of use, but focus-wise muscle memory is good. Not to where I was before, where I could dial in focus without looking, but not to a point that I’m missing moments.

    The missing moments happens after I’ve focused, dialed in exposure, and am watching the scene ready to fire. The figure is in perfect pose, the dog’s head is distinctly looking left, or the drop of water on the icicle swells as it begins to fall. I trip the shutter and there’s a fatal pause as the moment passes, then the shutter clicks. The resulting shot is maybe 1/8th of a second late.

    So the slow process of composing and focusing increases the creativity dramatically. But the fatal flaw of the slow operation results in FAIL. To be fair To put the blame where it belongs, it only happens with the Visoflex, which is needed for the 21 (and also the 50 at f1.1).

    Too many words.

    The rangefinder view is something I grew to love, but I’ve clearly moved on to great EVFs, which give me an exact version of the final image in the viewfinder. I set my EVFs to monochrome, which brings a crisp emphasis on line, shape, and pattern.

    Tracking through the past five or so years of my work, or even further back, there is a pattern of rebelling against the equipment required by the job of a newspaper photographer available to a newspaper budget.

    When we went with the Nikon D1H and its 1.5x crop sensor, I felt like I was staring at everything through a straw. In reaction, I began to expand the frame by shooting huge composite images made of dozens or even hundreds of frames.

    Then it was the EOS 1-D Mark II and an array of lenses that weighed more than anything I’d ever carried around. The reaction to that was to move to a series of small cameras that were clunky and unnatural, though lightweight.

    At this point, after nearly a year back with the Leica M, I’ve turned on the smaller, low quality cameras. I don’t use them anymore. And I’m being drawn toward glass of the highest quality.

    Maybe there are two years left in my career. I ask myself, Why take a photo with anything but the finest lenses in the world?