GSL, anyone?

[hermit]

YES! It was looking like we might not be able to make it and have been waiting to see. Just learned will be able to if your still planning on it.

hermit

 

[WarEaglemtn]

Fred, sounds as if you have experience but are looking for 'SOS' images.
The reason you see mainly SoUtah work from the State is that so many look at David Muench and others and go out and photograph what they did. Few go further.
Take a look at some of the work done by John Telford of Great Salt Lake. Take a look at the work of Craig Law on some of the quiet areas of Utah.
Visit the Salt Lake Art Center and get some inspiration as they have a number of programs, photographers and instructors intimately familiar with many areas of Utah.
Go a couple hours South and photograph the moving rocks... no need to drive all the way to Death Valley for it.
Trace the route of Bear River. Go just over the border to Wyoming and hit Fossil Beds National Monument. How about City of Rocks just over the border in Idaho?
Get away from the 'in your face' postcard photos and the places where you fight for a spot to put a tripod. Get out a map of the Transcontinental Railroad route and follow it a bit and photograph. The Uintah mountains are nearby. The Wasatch Mountains (Wasatch is a Ute term meaning 'Frozen Penis') have excellent scenic areas from Mt. Timpanogos to the ski areas to points North. The Raft River mountains to the North along the Utah/Idaho border are seldom visited. The Devils Playground in that area is pretty good.
Great Salt Lake and points nearby have a lot of interesting locations if you will go out and look a bit and not rely on others telling you where to go.

I stand by what I posted. If you can't find excellent places to photograph you are not putting much effort into the process. Take some classes at the SL Art center and work on creativity.

 

[yardkat]

In case anyone is interested, Evilhomer, Hermit, and I will be meeting at the Golden Spike Visitors Center around 5 pm today, and will probably be heading towards the Spiral Jetty. I've never been there, so I'm looking forward to it. It looks to be a nice cool day today, so feel free to join us!
J

 

[jphotos]

Fred,
You could literally spend days shooting in the Logan Canyon alone, in Northern Utah. Or take a hike up into Dry Canyon, there are gorgeous rock formations there. I'm not a native Utahn, originally from Chicago and spent some time in Calif., VA and Maine, but I find people to be of abundant help.

 

[jphotos]

In case anyone is interested, Evilhomer, Hermit, and I will be meeting at the Golden Spike Visitors Center around 5 pm today, and will probably be heading towards the Spiral Jetty. I've never been there, so I'm looking forward to it. It looks to be a nice cool day today, so feel free to join us!
J

Wow, this sounds pretty neat. I just became a member a couple days ago and only now found this thread, but this sounds cool. Maybe next time for me though.

 

[yardkat]

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to report that yesterday we all had a wonderful time out at the Spiral Jetty. I should have planned more time there, but now I know what's there and we're hoping to make another trip sometime soon. Chris and I drove up and met Jay and Monte, who shared with us some other locations to shoot, showed us a beautiful (really beautiful) collection of prints, cyanotypes, salt prints, and tintypes, showed us their gorgeous cameras, their collodian process and their tintype process, AND took a tintype portrait of us, AND let us keep it, AND shared dinner with us, AND shared fresh garden greens and vegetables with us, AND showed us more hospitality than I ever would have expected from two strangers. It was a lovely day, and I'm so happy we went, and met Jay and Monte! Hopefully sometime I'll be able to get to the lab and print, and scan some shots from that day. I also hope that someday I can return their generous hospitality!

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

wow...should have joined you. Sounds like one of the more interesting trips to the jetty. How high was the water?

 

[Robert Hall]

So glad you had a good time. I hope I can avoid any pitfalls and make it next round.

 

[yardkat]

The water was still pretty low, the jetty was completely visible. It was just a really great day.

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

Pics?

 

[evilhomer78]

The spiral jetty is totally worth the long drive, there is so much to photograph out there. I can't say anymore that what yardkat has said about Jay & Monte's hospitality, I never though someone I've never met to be so generous.

I'm going to try and scan the tin type tonight, and hopefully get some time to develop a couple of rolls. Once I get some prints made, I'll scan some and upload them. (Warning it may be some time.)

 

[yardkat]

Yeah, it might be awhile for me as well, unfortunately. I don't have a film scanner, and right now not a lot of time to go print, but I will try to get down to the darkroom before I leave town next week.

 

[evilhomer78]

I just scanned and uploaded the tin type yardkat and I were talking about. (there was a url link here which no longer exists)