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Utah Symphony at Deer Valley

Sunday, 8 August 2010, 8:30am

Utah Symphony at Deer Valley. Friday night we decided to drive up to Deer Valley and see the Utah Symphony perform many fantastic pieces of music. It is part of the Deer Valley Music Festival that they hold every summer. The weather was perfect with large clouds and a cool breeze during the performance. Off in the distance you could watch the lightning storms. We brought a cooler with a few bottles of wine and a small selection of different cheeses.

These are the amazing pieces that were performed:

Overture to Fuillaume Tell (“William Tell”) – Gioacnino Rossini
La Primavera No. 1 from The Four Seasons – Antonio Vivaldi
Selections for Ochestra from Porgy & Bess – George Gershwin/Bennett
The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkure – Richard Wagner/Hutchenrugter
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Finlandia – Jean Sibelius
Kanon in D – Johann Pachelbel
Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
1812 Overture Solennelle – Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

There is a lot more information at the festival’s website www.deervalleymusicfestival.com or the Utah Symphony’s wesbite www.utahsymphony.org.

I managed to take a few pictures with my iPhone and this happens to be one of the best photographs that I have ever taken on my iPhone. Enjoy.

Farook Khan

Evening Walk

Sunday, 1 August 2010, 6:30am

Evening Walk! I set a goal to try to walk Jake at least five times a week and for the most part I have been meeting my goal. I have been using a really cool iPhone App called Run Keeper. It uses GPS to track your exercise (walk, run, hike) and generates cool maps and graphs with your pace, speed and duration. Check out my profile at http://runkeeper.com/user/farookkhan

I took this picture before heading out on a walk and it is a little out of focus but I really like it. This was actually taken back in May but I thought I would share it.

Farook Khan

Artwork: Charlie

Saturday, 10 July 2010, 10:37pm

Artwork: Charlie. A few months ago I was playing with the configurations on my camera and snapped a few pictures from the front room. I managed to capture this portrait of Charlie and while I don’t normally consider many of my photographs as artwork, I thought that this picture really captured a moment and personality.

While I am lacking in formal photographic analysis and commentary, these are some of my thoughts about this picture. Charlie has a diet coke in his hand and he is wearing one of his favorite shirt combinations (white long-sleeve underneath a colored t-shirt). His attention is toward my direction but he isn’t looking at me or the camera. The light from the window is lighting his face perfectly and there is some distractions to the left, but the picture frames add to the background. Charlie is more or less void of emotion. You can’t really tell if he is happy, tired, sad, excited.

I know that Charlie actually does not like this picture, but I am going to share it anyway because I really like it. Enjoy.

Hiking the Y

Saturday, 24 April 2010, 12:00pm

Hiking the Y. About a year or two before Yasmin was set to graduate from Brigham Young University, my mom made it a personal goal to hike the Y mountain that overlooks the BYU campus. This is often a tradition that BYU students take when they first come to campus. My mom made it a goal to be physical fit enough to climb the mountain. After months of training, organizing a hiking club in California and preparing for this day, she successfully met her goal. It was a very fun morning and it was a great way to celebrate Yasmin graduating from college. I’ve included a few pictures from our hike.

Spring Portraits 2010

Friday, 23 April 2010, 12:30pm

Spring Portraits 2010. After the Friday Graduation ceremonies for Yasmin we went outside to grab some fresh air and the weather was interesting to grab some photographs of Charlie and Shaheen. I was using my flash and really like these photographs. These were taken outside the BYU Marriott Center on the South East side.

Fishing Deer Creek Reservoir

Sunday, 11 April 2010, 5:36pm

This weekend I was able to head up Provo Canyon and go fishing at Deer Creek Reservoir. It was a little cold but otherwise a gorgeous morning. The sky was mostly clear with some high clouds and the sunrise really made the mountains look great. I went fishing with some good friends and while we didn’t catch any fish, we did have a really good time.

My favorite picture of the set is the three fishing poles sitting on the dock with Mt. Timpanogos in the background.

Farook Khan

Sanpete County

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 5:57pm

Sanpete County. I took this picture while driving down to Sanpete County for the funeral of Charlie’s nephew Wesley. Sanpete County is located in the central part of Utah just over two hours south from Salt Lake. The valley is beautiful year round and this weekend was no exception. We got several inches of snow Friday morning and luckily most of it melted off by the afternoon. Charlie’s sister told me that once you enter Sanpete County, time slows down and you go back a many years to another time.

Farook Khan

Spring Wedding Flowers

Saturday, 27 February 2010, 10:23pm

Spring Wedding Flowers. I had the opportunity to photograph the wedding of Ron & Jeanie this weekend. It was a really close and intimate ceremony with only family and few close friends. The flowers were gorgeous and I wanted to share a few of the photographs. The wedding really got me excited for the spring with the warming weather and the blooming of the flowers.

Farook Khan

Flying Over Salt Lake at Night

Thursday, 5 November 2009, 5:00am

A few weeks ago we were able to go flying with some friends. Our friend Mark is a pilot and has access to airplanes. We decided to go flying and also grab some dinner by flying to the Ogden Airport and have dinner at Rickenbacker’s Bistro & Restaurant. We were able to fly in, park the airplane outside the restaurant and walk in. It was really fun. It reminds me of growing up and my grandmother would fly into the old NutTree Airport in Vacaville. I took about 1500 pictures and most of them were damaged because my CF card became corrupted. Here are some pictures that survived the flight.

I think this is a really cool photograph of us landing at the Salt Lake International Airport. Our little Cessna airplane uses the same runway as the huge jetliners that come and go from the airport. After flying over and seeing some of the other airports in Utah, the Salt Lake airport looked like the Vegas Strip will all the lights.

We were able to circle over Salt Lake a few times. I was able to get some good pictures of the Salt Lake Temple all lit up. I was actually trying to get some shots of the City Creek Project. You can see Tower 1 on Block 76 all lit up and some of the other buildings that are rising in downtown Salt Lake. It looked really beautiful at night. It was also much better in person. Eventually my photographs will catch up.

Farook Khan

Jackson Wyoming Trip

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 8:00am

A few weeks ago we took a trip up to Jackson, Wyoming. It was a fun trip and we were able to get away from the hot summer of Salt Lake and enjoy the cooler weather of the mountains.

We went Kayaking on Jenny Lake and I took a video with my iPhone. I need to start taking some more videos and posting them online. I figured I could hit two birds with one stone and posted the video to Facebook.

The trip was really fun. Mark and Jeff came along and we stayed at the Terra Hotel just outside of Jackson. We were able to spend some time in the city and get a few drinks at the Million Dollar Cowboy. Charlie picked up a shirt and a hoodie. We took the tram to the top of the mountains and were able to get some great views of the valley below. Jackson is a fantastic weekend getaway that is really close and offers lots of attractions. Maybe next time we’ll get to do some horseback riding or go further into the park.

Some black and white photographs that I took of the mountains. Most of them were edited with a red-filter which really makes the mountains and the clouds punch. I need to double check my settings, but it appears that I probably had my ISO setting too high because some of the pictures look like they have too much grain.

Farook Khan