Halloween Party

Last night we had a Halloween Party with some of our friends. Last christmas, Brooke and Ty got us a game called Quelf that we haven't been able to play with a large group till now. It was really random, which was the point. Have you ever tried to drink out of the opposite side of the direction the glass is tipping? Probably not.We had a great time and thanks everyone for coming! 

Jenn's New Blog

Jenn has finally made her own blog with a subject that is near and dear to her heart... Organizing!

Go and have a look using this link: www.labelthatstuff.blogspot.com

She already has two tips and she will be adding more as she goes around our home making things the way she wants it. You might just learn something you can do to organize and beautify your own home.

Sign up for the RSS feed to get automatic updates in Google Reader.

You don't know what Google Reader is?!?! Get with it and go to www.google.com/reader!

Bryce Side Photo

Hello Everybody!

Today I can announce that I have made an official blog for my photography and video. I have even gone so far as to register the domain name.

I'm going to do my best to post up frequent updates as well as my favorite pictures from my ventures. While this blog (The Bryce Side of Things) will now take on a simple family orientation, my other blog will be devoted to my artistic efforts.

Please do me a favor by registering to the RSS feed and recommending me to your friends!

www.BryceSidePhoto.com

This year's garden

This is a late blog post, but I thought I'd show you our innovative gardening strategies. Ok, they aren't that innovative since they're all out of the square foot gardening book, but they're new to us.

This year we're doing our square foot gardens again and we wanted to plant them on Jenn's birthday (May 8th). Nature was against that though with freezing temperatures forecasted for the week after we wanted to plant. Luckily I remembered this awesome idea to make little greenhouses for our gardens to protect them from the frost.

We simply took two 10' PVC pipes from corner to corner and strapped them together with a zip tie at the top. Then we got some big pieces of plastic and draped it over the top of our new structure and placed bricks around the edge. Luckily we haven't thrown out these bricks since we moved in. I never realized how useful a little pile of bricks are.

Our garden is doing really well right now so if you're nice you might just get to come help eat some of it.

You can see how humid it is here since the lens immediately fogged up when I stuck it under the plastic.

We were also able to plant a peach tree and an apple tree. You can differentiate the peach tree above since it doesn't have holes in it's pants.

The Cathedral

Last month I had the opportunity to go to a photography seminar at the Salt Lake Library for a group called photowalking utah (www.photowalkingutah.com). Before going into the Salt Lake Library I noticed this church which I had seen maybe once before.

Since I was going to a photography workshop, I obviously had my mini-tripod and camera with me. I decided that I would take a picture of the cathedral after the seminar. Having scoped out the only possible slab of cement that I could sit on while aligning my tiny tripod, I proceeded to nearly press my face against the cement to try and see what I was getting in the viewfinder. Luckily there weren't many passersby since they would have wondered if I was a beggar that had made off with a really nice camera from someone uptown.

After I took the photo below I scoped out some other locations when I realized that this wasn't a cathedral at all, it was the city county building! Knowing the strict rules that cities place on federal buildings, I began to walk back toward my car, peering over my shoulder periodically to see if there were any security guards who would make me delete my precious photos. I hid behind a tree and somersaulted over a bush to avoid the glare of two officers walking my way. I slunk into my car, sped away, and rejoiced in my captures.

The Third and the Seventh

In my daily perusing of photography blogs I stumbled upon this video. The Third and the Seventh is a tribute to architecture as an art form.

The producer of this video, Alex Roman, is a master of 3DsMAX which is 3D animation software. I was impressed with this video because of its unbelievably realistic portrayal of our world.

Pay close attention to the textures used and the stylistic feel of this video. He obviously put many hours into this project.

The only things in the video which are not real according to Alex are the time-lapse flowers, some of the birds, the airplanes, and the photographer toward the end of the video.

Again, truly amazing work here. Hope you enjoy.

Make sure to watch it full screen with the sound on. (Click the link below)

http://vimeo.com/7809605

A Shreeve and Illum Christmas

This is a video I put together of our Christmas together (and the days leading up to it).

Grand Turk Harbor

Here is the tiny little island of Grand Turk. At any point the cruise ships that arrive double or triple the population of this little place. It had great beaches, however, it was very... not picturesque other than those beaches. I did manage to capture this image a few minutes after sunset. The colors really come alive at that time. Does it look like a place you'd want to visit?

The Green Creek

This is one of my favorite shots that I took on this vacation. Once again this was inside of El Yunque, but I was able to use a high dynamic range(HDR) technique for the first time. Go to www.stuckincustoms.com for some truly stunning HDR work. Let me know what you think, good or bad.

Puerto Rico and the El Yunque Rain Forest

After St. Thomas we had the luxury of visiting Puerto Rico and the beautiful rain forest El Yunque. I hope you get an idea of it's vastness... and greenness by these pictures.