Air Show

Last Saturday, I photographed a friend’s family reunion.  This person happens to live right at the end of a Rochester International Airport runway.  The reunion was scheduled to overlap with the ESL Air Show.  So I got to photograph the family, participate in a picnic, and enjoy the air show.  One of my favorite pictures shows two of the Navy’s Blue Angel jets, flying in mirror image (one right-side-up and the other up-side-down).  Photographic settings for these pictures were approximately ISO 800, f/8, and 1/4000 sec.

Hill Cumorah Pageant

Since 1998, I have served as the Hill Cumorah Pageant photographer.  I helped as an assistant with the photography for many years before that.  Over the years, the photography has included taking pictures of cast teams, picturing families in costume (discontinued last year), and taking publicity photographs.  It has been wonderful to feel the excitement of pageant each year as a cast of around 800 comes together and in a very short time is ready to present the show.  Lorna Bingham helped me take the cast team photos this year.  Together we photographed 36 cast teams and the work crew last Saturday afternoon.  Afterward, I stayed for the performance and captured some additional pictures during the show.  Below are pictures of Nephi’s boat in a storm, the Destruction Scene, and the work crew.