Photo Non-Contest #164 -- It's In The Details

Written Inc's theme for the week is about details.  Most of my new photos aren't really about details, but I did snap this one the last time I visited Max's house.

It's part of his front door.  (Max has plenty of spiffy antiques in his house.)
Remember to click on it to see it full-sized.

Photo Non-Contest #163 -- Eat Your Veggies

Fortunately, I like to photograph food -- because veggies are Written Inc's theme for this week.

Here we go with a veggie tray made by Dad:

And here are some grilled veggies: fajitas at a great little Mexican restaurant in Moab, Utah:

And a hotter-than-Hades jalapeño burger at Old Desert Village in Salt Lake City, Utah:

Yeah, there were about 4 really hot peppers under that chees and salsa.

And here's where I start cheating a little.  These are some funky flavors of potato crisps I bought in Cambridge, England.  We certainly don't have these flavors in the US.

And this is Keenan, my friend's baby, eating his veggies.  Or at least a popcorn/rice cake, anyway.  (Hey, a child will count popcorn as a veggie.)

And my favorite veggie photo:

Yeah, click and enlarge the photo.  You'll see that those are naked baby carrot jockeys riding around that cake.  If you're a fan of cakewrecks.com, you'll understand immediately.  I snapped this shot at a booksigning a year ago.

Photo Non-Contest #162 -- Playing With Light.

Carmi's theme this week is "Playing With Light," which is a bit tough for someone like me who only has a point-and-shoot camera.
Thus, this is my best idea for the theme:

Click to enlarge the photo, and you'll see it's not fog; it's confetti.
I took this right at the end of the Paul McCartney concert in Salt Lake City in 2010.  I like the way the light catches only the edges of the heads in the crowd and the way it makes the paper seem to shimmer in the air.

Photo Non-Contest #161 -- White Part 2

More white.

A wedding in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The original monument to commemorate the arrival of settlers in the Great Salt Lake Valley -- white against an October sky (unretouched colors).

Even though Max already did the Salt Flats, I'm adding in a couple.  This is salt foam accumulating on basalt rocks at the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake.  The water has a pinkish tint because of a strange, salt-loving critter that lives in it.  (The GSL is the second-saltiest body of water in the world, right after the Dead Sea.  It has up to 5 times as much salt as average ocean water.)

Max called these "saltbergs" since they look like mini icebergs from a distance.  This is salt foam hardened into crusts around the basalt rocks in the shallow water of the lake.

Photo Non-Contest #161 -- White

So, Max got to my idea of the Salt Flats first.  Sigh.  This is what happens when we live in the same city and like to photograph the same things.
So, I'll try a different subject for Written Inc's theme of white.  And it has to be brief today, since I don't have any more time this morning to hunt down not-Salt Flats white pics.

So, here's a painfully ugly dog stinking up a beautiful antique white bedspread in a shop in Midway, Utah. (Yup, how to keep customers from buying that particular object, for sure.)
But it is white.  Mostly.

Remember to click to see this thing in full view.

Another Trip To Red Butte Gardens

The weather has finally cooled off!  And I celebrated by taking a brief visit to Red Butte Gardens on Saturday.

I wasn't the only one celebrating.  There were plenty of children playing in the rattlesnake fountain in the children's garden.  I caught this little girl in mid-flight from her sister who was flipping her with water.

I love the shadow and how it almost touches her toe.  :)

The bumble bees seemed to be celebrating as well.

And possibly even the gnomes were celebrating.

I walked about a bit, taking snaps of big red flowers

and cactus.

Then I walked up the creek under the shade of the scrub oak.

It was a good way to spend an hour of my afternoon.

Remember to click on the photos if you want to see them full-sized.

Fresh From The Garden

My raspberry bushes are overflowing, and the lighting was just right in the kitchen.

And, of course, I had to play with the pic on picnik.com, so I got this inversion:

So, raspberries and..... blueberries?