Carmen Rasmusen has recorded a new project for Desert Book, a talk on CD! For the project, she came in for a fun photo shoot to get a great image for the cover of the CD. This was the favorite and ended up being the cover.
It was a fun shoot and we created some amazing images — some smiling, some serious, some color, and some black and white. Here is another one of my favorites.
But in the end, the top image won out and the CD is now finished and on shelves. Here’s an image I took with my iPhone while strolling through the store.
You can get the CD here from the official Deseret Book shopping site, deseretbook.com. Also, check out Carmen’s commentaries as a blogger for the Desert News. Good luck on your new CD, Carmen!
Watching Alex, I was inspired to do a time lapse photography video. He has one he did that is now the opening sequence of SNL, and it gave me an idea. Sunday morning, I mounted a camera to the side of my car, and created a time-lapse video of me driving to Salt Lake. Here is the result.
We then switched it up to Scott playing his electric guitar, again with selective focus before moving outside.
We then went on location to one of my favorite places because it’s so far from anywhere. As far as you look on the horizon, you won’t see civilization. We are really in the middle of nowhere, and the colors and textures are so great! I really like the lines in this particular image, and how they all work with the guitar’s neck.
We ended the shoot with Scott walking away, feeling that this could perhaps be the back of the CD or a foldout page inside. It gives room for text and design work.
There was even a performance by Kendra Lowe, one of the judges and also the director of the event.
The big winner was ‘Artie Hemphill and the Iron Horse Band.’ Here he is performing. And here are some of the musicians that competed in the event.
The large oil painting above the console there, is actually from my cousin, 
Here’s that same room, looking the other way, back into the kitchen. The design team asked me to also photograph the house, so these are some of the interiors from that shoot — the day before the parade opened.
I don’t normally get to shoot images like this one above when doing interiors, but fortunately Jenna loves this style. She loves the kind of images that show you what the room ‘feels’ like, so I was able to play and get some of these cool images too.
Here’s the office, with an Eames chair and one of my images on the wall.
The master bedroom upstairs.
Another view of the master bedroom. The lighthouse canvas on the wall was taken on the shores of Oregon.
Here’s the team the day before the big opening: Jenna (with Noble House), Guy Haskell (the builder), and Karen (owner of Noble House).
Of course one of me and Jenna,
And the house alone.
Now of course, there are plenty more images and much more to show you, but instead of posting them all here, you should instead just go by and see the place.
This lighthouse was one of many that I found while photographing the coast of Oregon. The colors were a perfect fit for the room it was placed in.
And this image was also in Oregon, near Canon Beach. You may recognize the rocks in the background. It’s called, “Looking Forward.”
These art images and others are discounted right now while they are on display at the Parade of Homes. Let me know if you’d like prices on anything or need something made up custom for your home.
I set up my samples and hung out to answer questions with people.
it was a full event and they sold not only my packages, but a lot of other things as well and raised some good money for their cause.
I’m grateful that they called me and asked me to participate. It’s a great feeling to be able to help groups and organizations that better our society.