Tag: LDS temples

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Favorite

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Cee’s taking a break from this challenge for Thanksgiving and asked people to post either another kitchen item or their favorite black & white image. This is one of my favorites from this fall. I was on the 10th floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City, which is just east of the Salt Lake Temple, giving you a great straight-on view of the temple spires and the Angel Moroni statue.

For more from this challenge, visit Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Your Favorite.

Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Corner

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From the corner of the Brigham City LDS Temple grounds.

For more from this challenge, visit the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Corner.

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: New Photo – Any Topic

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I took this at our niece’s wedding this past weekend. For more from this challenge, visit Cee’s Black & White Challenge: New Photo – Any Topic. #teamdevaub

A Photo a Week Challenge: Yellow

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The yellow hibiscus is Hawaii’s state flower. It is native to the islands and grows wild as well as cultivated. We saw these beautifully-kept hibiscus at the LDS Laie Hawaii Temple. Yellow is a bright, cheerful color that always makes me smile. It was my father’s favorite color, and I think of him whenever I see it. Yesterday would have been his 86 birthday, so Happy Birthday, Papa. I miss you.

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR MORE) FEATURING THE COLOR YELLOW.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
  3. Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
  4. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

Thursday Doors – March 30, 2017

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It is tradition for couples who marry in the LDS Salt Lake Temple to take pictures at the large, ornate doors outside the temple after the ceremony. Part of that tradition is taking a picture of the couples’ hands together on one of the doorknobs.

For more from this challenge, visit Norm 2.0’s Thursday Doors – March 30, 2017.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Light the Night

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We had the opportunity to travel to the Mesa/Gilbert, Arizona area in late July for a family wedding. While there, we wanted to experiment with long exposure night photography. The LDS Gilbert Arizona Temple proved to be the perfect subject for our venture, and the weather cooperated better than we could have hoped, and we are very pleased with the results. When working with longer shutter speeds, it’s vital to have a tripod and really nice to use a shutter remote instead of having to touch the camera. It’s also important to be patient and experiment with different settings on your camera. We got better results with f-stops of 5 or higher to avoid too much light hitting the sensor.

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE YOUR FAVORITE NIGHT SHOTS (WITH LONGER EXPOSURE TIMES OR NOT).

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography. Here’s how it works:

  1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ and “Photo a Week” tags.
  3. Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
  4. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.