The Center Of It All

The galactic core setting over remote eastern Utah. This is literally the center of everything that we know of. I took advantage of there being a very dark sky area close to where I was staying and spent some time in the early morning hours shooting. I'm lucky that the advancing cloud cover didn't obscure more of the Milky Way. This area is interesting in that there isn't even a small town for 70 miles in the direction this shot was taken and if you kept going, there aren't any large cities on this trajectory in the whole of North America.

Passing in the Night

Light trails in some of the densest fog I've seen. Taken when I should have been sleeping, as the fog crystallized on my camera. :)

Purged and Purified

"In the temples of the Lord, we learn obedience. We learn sacrifice. We make the vows of chastity and have our lives consecrated to holy purposes. It is possible for us to be purged and purified and to have our sins washed away so that we may come before the Lord as clean, white, and spotless as the newly fallen snow." —James E. Faust

Purged and Purified

"In the temples of the Lord, we learn obedience. We learn sacrifice. We make the vows of chastity and have our lives consecrated to holy purposes. It is possible for us to be purged and purified and to have our sins washed away so that we may come before the Lord as clean, white, and spotless as the newly fallen snow." —James E. Faust

Strengthen Us By the Remembrance

"Strengthen us by the memories of the glorious deliverances of the past, by the remembrance of the sacred covenants that Thou hast made with us..."

Fortify Your Commitment

"Your worship in the temple and your service there for your ancestors will bless you with increased personal revelation and peace and will fortify your commitment to stay on the covenant path." —President Russell M. Nelson, April 2018

Autumn Meditation

A beautiful array of October colors in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Looking to the Heavens

While this world is amazing, it is only the beginning - there is much beyond!

Blooming Spring

"Fair are the meadows, Fairer the woodlands, Robed in the flowers of blooming spring; Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer. He makes the sorrowing spirit sing." —"Beautiful Savior", verse 2

Hands Up!

Reflections and a good natured couple captured in the pouring rain on BYU campus in Provo, Utah.

To Bring The World His Truth

"We are as the army of Helaman. We have been taught in our youth. And we will be the Lord’s missionaries To bring the world his truth. To bring the world his truth."

Elements of Winter

Greater Blessings

"God does rain down upon all His children all the blessings He can—all the blessings that love and law and justice and mercy will permit. And He commands us to be likewise generous...Nevertheless, God’s greater blessings are conditioned on obedience." — Elder D. Todd Christofferson, "Abide in My Love", October 2016

Pastel Atmosphere

Sometimes I like the more subtle shades of the sky even more than the dramatic ones.