Late Night Fly Fishing

My father, brother and I were able to get out after work for the first fly fishing trip of the year. I dragged the camera along to see if I can fish and shoot at the same time. Short answer, no. I was able to get a few shots off and catch a fish after missing two pretty clean hits earlier. All shots were after the sun went down. Needless to say, all were handheld and a tripod would of been helpful.

The Tour of Utah - Stage 1

The Tour of Utah finished their first stage yesterday at Research Park after coming down Emigration Canyon. I managed to get out of the office and run up to the mouth of the canyon to catch the racers. A few more photographs can be seen on my website. Also on my website is a lot of the support cars.
I slowed the shutter speed down to 1/250 and panned with the racers to create the blurred background and their spokes blurr out. It gives a nice feeling of speed. It is definitely harder to capture, however, I think it makes a better photograph.

The main pack coming out of the canyon.

Here are the eventual winner and second place finishers, Paco Mancebo (Rock Racing) and Oscar Sevilla (Rock Racing). They of course came out of the canyon first. I wanted to make sure I captured them so I shot a shutter speed around 1/2000, thus you can see the spokes clearly.

Backyard Visitors

In the past few weeks I have not been able to get out to shoot an event, so I have focused on my backyard. Here are few a visitors:
The bee is in a hosta flower. I was shooting the flowers until the bees came along.

We have a very large butterfly bush (about eight feet tall and six feet wide) and the name holds true. During the last two years we had a lot of humming birds come to it, but this year nothing.

This I found out through a Google search is an Asian Lady Bettle, thus the orange, yellow color instead of the native red. They were introduced on purpose in the west and are taking over the red ladybug.