Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Photowalking Temple Square Utah

Published December 30, 2007 in Photography. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

For those of you near Salt lake city there was a Photowalk of Temple Square, we had around 15 people there at night in mid December … (read COLD)… the lights were amazing, and despite the cold I had a great time.

As a forward heads up, last I heard there should be a meeting on the 12th of January, some of the group are going to bring some studio lights and pocket wizards and setup a studio lighting try-it-yourself in Draper. According to Rich Legg who arranged to use the Gateway community church sanctuary for the meeting, there will also be a gear sharing table for people to come and try out other cameras, lenses, and other little photographic toy’s plus about 5 models to play with the lighting on.  Should be a great time to come, experiment and learn.  Hope to see you there!

(Rich’s original journal article can be found here: http://www.leggnet.com/2007/12/save-date-photowalk-5-january-12-2008.html)

Paul Rohde

Christmas Concert ’07

Published December 30, 2007 in Photography. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Prior to my Christmas break I managed to make it to a Christmas concert at South Mountain Community Church.  Now, your average “Christmas Concert” probably entails the manger scene, a short play by some 3rd-6th graders a few songs by the worship band, and a short sermon by the local pastor.

I had heard earlier that the concert itself was really good, but was still surprised at how good of a concert it was.  It was different from my expectations in that instead of fitting the classic Christmas mold it was designed as an outreach to the people in the local community, using the culture around them to convey the message of Christ and Christmas in a way everyone could understand.  The best example of this was the “Santa vs. Jesus” commercials that imitated the Apple advertisements of “Mac vs PC”.  The music was also amazingly well done with coordinated light shows and both classic and quote “modern” Christmas music.

All in all, a great job by South Mountain Community Church, I’ll defiantly be looking for next year’s performance.

Dance of the Musicians

Paul Rohde

Neumont Graduation Ceremony

Published December 2, 2007 in Photography. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Neumont University has the odd habit of having only two graduation ceremonies each year. Now, normally when you think about it, that makes sense until you realize that Neumont goes year round, four quarters a year. Do the math and you end up with 2 graduating classes per Graduation ceremony. Economical.

I know some people have been waiting for the photos, so here’s a selected few of them, I’ve also posted a flash gallery on my photography page that you can take a look at that has a few more.

Flash gallery: http://www.paulrohde.com/?page_id=533

That be all for now,

Paul