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Steven Ralph Sharp

An Amateur Photographer having fun with a camera!

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Stuff in the Sky, like the Moon

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  • The moon peaking through a Weeping Birch. On this particular morning, I was thinking that I would really like to get a photo of the moon behind a tree. As I walked to TRAX and rode it downtown, I kept looking for a good opportunity but never saw one. I had just gotten off TRAX at the Courthouse Station and started walking to my office and I still hadn't seen anything I liked. But as I passed this Weeping Birch tree on the south side of the Frank E. Moss Courthouse, close to the corner of 400 S and Main, I realized it was exactly what I had been looking for! So I setup my tripod and camera and took this photo. The light shining on the tree is from the street lights behind me. Looking at this picture, you'd probably never guess that it was in the middle of Downtown Salt Lake, would you?
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  • The full moon above Mount Timpanogas as seen from the lawn in front of the Bingham Library in West Jordan
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  • This is an HDR image of the LDS Oquirrh Mountain Temple in the Salt Lake Valley. My daughter-in-law suggested to me that I submit some of my photos of LDS temples to a photo contest that was being sponsored by LDS Living and Deseret Book. The contest was to find photos for a 2014 calendar. This is one of the photos that I submitted, and it was selected to be the photo for October.<br /> I woke up at 4:30am to be able to have time to drive over to get some photos of this temple with the full moon behind it. I pulled into a subdivision that is currently under construction, got out of my truck, setup my tripod and camera and started taking some shots. As I was standing there, another car pulled in next to me and just sat there. The driver never got out or said anything to me. But I noticed that he was wearing a bright orange shirt, like the kind some construction workers wear. I'm sure he was there to see if I was stealing anything from the construction site.
  • The full moon rising over Broads Fork Twin Peaks east of the Salt Lake valley. I captured this image while standing on the top level of the UTA parking garage at 3400 W and 8600 S in West Jordan. It is one of my favorite moon shots that I've taken. However, it's not actually the full moon; this was taken two days before the full moon, so the moon was "waxing gibbous 97%", but it looks full to me.
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