So, I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the LDS General Conference again with the full-time church photographers. Here are the photos that were selected for printing in the Ensign with the talks. If you are following along at home in your Ensign (or Liahona), these are found on pages: 3, 34, 39, 42, 49, 57, 106, 114, 119, and 127. This conference there was a lot of rain, and not a lot of awesome light. I’ll try and post some of my favorites the didn’t get published later. Anyway, here they are:

Above: The Salt Lake Temple and fountains early Sunday morning.

Left: I loved everything about this kid. I was shooting this with the 600 mm lens after the Sunday morning session, so I was probably 100 feet away from these guys as I was shooting. I loved the smirk he made as he realized that I was taking photos of him. The loose tie, the suit, wind blown hair, and dad’s hand on his shoulder. Awesome.

I liked the little moment the father and son are having in this shot of the crowds entering the conference center for the Priesthood session. Maybe someday that will be me and one of my boys, except, maybe my boy can be schlepping some of my heavy camera gear.

I’ve been taking photos for the church at the last 11 general conferences. I usually don’t see a lot of things that I haven’t tried shooting before, but this conference I was pleased to find for the first time these compass tiles on the main street plaza. I really like how this shot came out. I locked down the camera on a tripod and shot with a 16-35 mm lens. I easily have over 100 frames of people walking by here to get the blur and grouping of people just right. I’m really glad this one got published. Hopefully there are a lot more hidden gems out there waiting for me.

P.S. the talks were really good too, so don’t just get distracted by the awesome photos!

Posted on November 8