Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2013
When I was cutting my teeth in photography I would spend hours perusing Ansel Adam’s photographs. He was one of the great pioneers in photography, well known for his stunning images of Yosemite Valley. He was not just an artist, he was a technician. He was successful in his creativity because he understood the process. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2013
The weather was beautiful yesterday morning albeit a bit chilli. My earphones were blaring a morning talk show through one ear as I talked to my neighbor and running partner. We were just short of the halfway point of our four mile jaunt when my cell phone began to ring. On the other end of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2013
Saturday morning I was standing a museum gazing up at the tail cone of a B-1 bomber. The engines were missing from their bays and a pigeon was sitting a a rear facing port staring back at me. He quickly flew off followed by another that emerged from the same hole. It just didn’t seem [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2013
It was fall 2009. The Intermountain Professional Photographer’s Association’s annual convention was coming to a close as the moderator for the awards ceremony was announcing the last award for the evening dinner and awards ceremony. Since this year’s IPPA convention was regional, Canon was awarding their Par Excellence award to the photographer with the best [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2013
It’s funny how life just changes without warning. One minute you see life going one direction and the next minute you’re headed somewhere else. Just over a year ago our family of ten was reduced to four when my youngest son left for his mission in Germany. I figured our “now the national average nuclear [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2012
I’ve photographed a local high school football team a couple of years in a row. This year I mailed out the orders to my clients. A few weeks ago a mother/client called me to inquire about her son’s football portraits. She had not received the portraits and was wondering about how to get them. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2012
Our home was packed this year for Thanksgiving. We set a record of 28 people sitting down to devour two turkeys, bowls of cranberry sauce, yams, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, grandma’s rolls, and don’t forget the numerous desserts! It’s enough to put on weigh just thinking about it! we had Grandmothers, grand kids, kids, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2012
Yesterday I was running around the house trying to get all the items on my to do list completed when the phone rang. It was another professional photographer in a bind. He had a family session scheduled, but was sicker than a dog and unable to do the shoot. He needed some help. Normally he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2012
The temperature was much cooler this morning as I stood out on the front porch gazing at the fall color on the mountains across town. The wind was blowing and skies overcast signaling a change of the seasons here in Utah. I love the change that brings something a little different from time to time. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 19th, 2012
My heart was pumping last night at the IPPA Awards banquet when they called out my name as the winner of the Intermountain Professional Photographers Master Photographer of the Year for 2012. It was a culmination of my quest to meet one of the first goals I made when I founded Ted York Photography – [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2012
Well – the wedding is over. All my wife’s hard work in the garden paid off and we had a wonderful reception! The actual wedding was beautiful and I was able to create some memorable images of my son and my new daughter-in-law. That was last week – this week my wife and flew out [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2012
We have a big weekend coming up. Another one of my boys is entering marital bliss. My wife has been working the yard for over a month getting ready for the reception that will take place on Saturday night. I might add the garden has never looked so good. I’ve been trying to get ahead [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2012
Saturday ended our town’s annual “Alpine Days.” It’s a time of the year I look forward to. Town folk begin setting out chairs along the parade route well in advance of Saturday morning when much of the town gathers along main street to watch local floats, gunfighters, marching bands, antique tractors, and classic cars. Kids [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2012
One of my goals in fine portraiture is to say something about you. Anyone can take a snapshot, but creating a fine portrait is another story. Lighting, posing, expression, and the like are all things that go into creating a meaningful portrait that will withstand the test of time. When I interview a new client [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 10th, 2012
It’s hard to look forward to the fourth of July celebration when fireworks have been banned. I wouldn’t think too much about it except that there are only two times a year when you can legally have fireworks. The next date, Utah’s Pioneer day, will be no better because it’s on the 24th of July [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2012
I can remember sitting in a college photography class many moons ago when the instructor said you could not show motion in still photographs. It was like laying down the gantlet. I didn’t agree with him and set out to prove it. To me it was the same thing as saying you could not show [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2012
I was planning a family sitting and the thought kept coming to me to do the shot early in the morning. Not a trivial thing when you think about asking a family to get up early enough to meet me at 6:30am! I mustered up the courage and gave dad a call. He got behind [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2012
Trying to come up with something new is the essence of creativity. Yesterday I photographed some of the cast from ACT’s Annie to be used for program and magazine covers as well as various publicity venues. The story from the play takes place in the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although we sometimes think [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2012
One of the things I like to do when I upgrade to new software is visit some of my old images to see how I can use the new software to change the way I work with the image. I can see if some new feature really works or not by looking for differences in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2012
It’s that time of year again. Every year the Alpine Community Theater puts on a play in July. For the last two years now I have photographed them in costume. Last year I started doing head shots for their program along with publicity shots for publication in newspapers. It’s been loads of fun and gets [...]