I always carry my camera with me. Or that is my goal.

Because I am prepared I can capture the fun photos in my everyday life. I love to shoot events even if I am not being paid. I didn’t go into photography to make money - that would be nice! However, I like taking photos for my own enjoyment. I like to practice on my own.

That being said, I took photos for my departments annual summer Bar-b-que. They had food, a tug-o-war, a pie eating contest, they had a raffle to give away prizes (including an iPhone). Here are a few photos I thought were fun and captured the event. Click any photo and it will take you to the full gallery of photos.

A few months ago I had the opportunity to photograph Chuck Diviney. He needed some photos for his new personal counseling business. We followed a day in the life of a therapist.

Chuck has a new program he is starting. It is inspired by a lecture series the Fabulous You. The program’s working name is the Fabulous Five. With a team of five people focusing on areas of fitness, grooming, therapy and others they of course needed some photos. So they called me.

For the past few years my nieces have gone to see the early morning hot air balloon launch for the Provo Freedom Festival. I have never been able to make it because I like sleep. But this year I stayed the night in Provo (icky I know) and I joined the family in watching the balloons and then watching the parade that followed. Here are a few snapshots from the day.

I was an event photographer for the Human Rights Campaign 4th Annual Gala dinner, hosted by Bruce Bastian. The HRC is a political action committee that works for the equality of gay, straight, transgender, bi-sexual and other in the work place and more. I wanted to approach this as if I was photographing a wedding. Capture details, capture people having fun, capture the atmosphere. It was a lot of fun. Granted I didn’t photograph portraits as one would do at a wedding but then you can only practice so much.

And I didn’t retouch to many of these in photoshop. Time and money are the big factors in whether something is fancied up in photoshop. But it does stress the importance of getting something right in camera. And the pictures did come of the of the camera very nice. Sometimes you don’t need to make a photo better if they are just right out of camera.

Finally! I have posted the photos from my trip to Washington DC. In June I went to the Internation Gay Lesbian Aquatics Championship. I took a lot of photos of water polo and the social events. There is a large gallery of photos - click any of these photos and it will take you to the full size gallery with 1164 photos.

I am sending many of these photos to IGLA in Denmark to be used in next year’s competition. It will be awesome to see my photos used for marketing.

People ask if I will be specializing in any particular type of photography. I don’t want to specialize - I want to be good at all types of photography. If I am good in sports, landscape, portrait and wedding - in the end I can take amazing photos of anything.

Here are photos from the second half of Erno’s photo shoot. The first half was his cowboy pictures which were previously featured in the blog. This photos feature him getting ready for gliding at point of the mountain. We photographed the preparation and then getting ready for take off. I would really have loved to photographed him actually taking off and gliding but he wasn’t ready for it.

I love these photos because it is so much more than just “sit” “turn your head” “say cheese.” Photographing people actually engaged in an activity is so much entertaining - and tells a story. So if you have a hobby that we could photograph - let me know. Let’s rock a photo session!

My Family’s July 4th Celebration, originally uploaded by dav.d.

I know my family has to be sick about it - however - it is great fun and great practice to photograph the family-get-together. Here my Niece is playing Chutes and Ladders with her Papa Jim.

This was the second chance to work with Ty. About year ago we had a photoshoot at the Salt Lake City Library. This year we took photos at Exchange Place - it is a favorite place to shoot. We also took a family photo of him with his boy friend, Bryant, and his dog, Maxx.

We will have to find a cool new location for his next shoot next summer.

Here are a number of photos from a post-bridal photoshoot for Angelina. I had photographed her wedding to Ngheip back in January and regretted the fact that we did not have the chance to photograph bridals or engagements. So when she told me she would be visiting Salt Lake City for the holiday weekend I insisted we have a photoshoot.

Angelina has such a wonderful natural beauty. When we took these photos we had nice natural morning light. I wanted her to leave her hair down for a more casual look and minimal make up - and her natural beauty just radiated. This isn’t quite a trash-the-dress photoshoot it is close.

I had the opportunity to photograph male models sporting underwear and speedos for local retailers in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mischievous and Cockers both donated underwear from top men’s clothing lines and these photos will be featured in QSaltLake Magazine.