WorldWide Photowalk

WOW it’s only one week away! 

Photowalk location and time. 

City Creek Park: Corner of State Street & E North Temple (07:00pm - 09:00pm)

300 N State St, Salt Lake City, UT- USA

Last year I got to attend both WorldWide photo walks in SLC.  One was in the morning with Nicole Young( Blog|Twitter) leading us through the downtown area.  This was one of my favorite shots of her taking a picture of my daughter. 

The second walk was a Scorcher at around 5:00 out in West Jordan with little to no shade.  Rich Legg (blog|Twitter) was our walk leader for that one.  We did all we could to stay in the shade even creating our own tree’s.  :) 

This year I will be at memorial grove in Downtown SLC.  I’ve only been here a few times and never when the sun is going down like we are planning to do this year so I am really looking forward to it!  Once again Nicole will be leading the walk and I’m sure we’ll get lots of people out.  So even if the event says it’s full please come out and join us for a great time and lots of good learning about photography.  I also learned there is another photowalk going on the same time at the International Peace Gardens.  I’ve included the link below so you could also joint that walk!   Here are some links in case you have never been on a photowalk. 

WorldWide PhotoWalk 2010 Link

Video for First time Photowalkers. 

Link to the Memorial Grove  Photowalk

Link to the Peace Gardens Photowalk 

PhotoWalking Utah Site with most awesome information about Photowalking in Utah. 

My Flickr Album from last years Photowalk. 

I hope to see you out at the photowalk! 

Mapping Big Cottonwood Canyon Part 2 (Dogwood)

Ok I have been away from the blog far to long.  Work  has been keeping me away from my photo blog so  hopefully I’ll have some more time in the future.  Without further rumblings here’s the info on the next Part of Cottonwood Canyon. 

This site is called Dogwood it is really easy to get to it’s the first picnic area up the canyon on the right hand side of the road.  There is parking around the sign on the road or if you choose to pay they have parking inside the day use area.   This is run by a property management company that runs several day use area’s up big cottonwood canyon.  Most of these area’s you can walk through without paying if you indicate that you are just walking through  and you don’t use the parking area.

If your planning on doing photo’s up here or if you are going to use any of the services please check with the on site range/manager for possible fees.

There are some good spots for pictures at this location.  Right next to the sign on the road there’s a little path where you can get down to the river and get a good shot of a couple/group of people up on the bridge. 

This is where you would stand to see the bridge. 

The part I really like is towards the east of the campground its a small trail that leads to a climbing area.

Start of trail from parking lot.

On trail.

Rocky section of trail.  (Trail = 2 minutes walking)

The area is fairly open and leaves a lot of open places for portraits.  Places to sit down and have the river as your backdrop.  You may want to be careful depending on the day/time this could also have a lot of climbers.

If your interested in getting some climbing pictures this could be a good spot as well as It should be fairly easy to go around on another trail to the top of the climbing area and be able to look down. 

Overall this is a good spot here’s some pro’s and con’s. 

Con’s

Can be costly if you park inside. 

Some of the trail is quite rocky if your carrying lots of gear keep that in mind.

Can be lots of people around. 

Pro’s

Very close in the canyon.  Less than 5 minutes up the canyon.

Plenty of parking(see con about parking fee)

Lots of great spots for river pictures. 

Good spot to setup for a bridge picture. 

Very easy walking no Hiking/Climbing or experience needed.

Here’s a site you can also find some images and information about the day use campsite. 

DogWood

My flickr album that has all of these can be found here.  You can also click on any of the pictures to see them on flickr I have them mapped out in flickr so you can see the exact location.