Trash the Dress - Heidi at the Lake

Some time ago I posted a note about the idea of "Trashing the Dress" on my blog. Heidi immediately volunteered and it wasn't until last night that I finally got a chance to take her up on it.

I belong to a photography club here in Utah called Photowalking Utah. They had scheduled a Photowalk for the Great Salt Lake for June and I asked Heidi if she would be interested in modeling in front of some 20+ photographers instead of just me. To my surprise, even the thought of 20+ photographers didn't seem to scare her. She went for it. We all showed up and had a great time (in spite of the loss of a couple of cell phones and a flash).

NOTE: Trash the Dress is an idea going around the internet. It's not so much about trashing (ruining) the dress, as it is about USING the dress in ways you wouldn't dream of using it before "the big day". Having spent a fortune on a wedding dress, why use it just once? Why not get some stunning pictures out of it by going places you never would have gone, by doing things you never would have done, while wearing that lovely dress?

Here are some of the images that I captured:


























More of my pictures of Heidi can be found here.

Pictures from the Photowalking Utah group can be found here.

Brazil Curitiba Temple Dedication - Follow-up

This is an addendum to the post just below/previous to this one!


As I didn't have time or bandwidth to upload all of the pictures from the celebration and corner stone events, I have uploaded them this morning to my website. They can be found here: Brazil Curitiba Temple Dedication

Brazil Curitiba Temple Dedication

Here I am ... blogging from a beach hotel in the northern city of Natal in Brazil!!!

I'm quite late in updating my blog as I have only had tiny slivers of time to access the internet during this trip (which started on May 28th). But of highest importance on my list of things to share is the main reason we started this trip in the first place: The dedication of the Brazil Curitiba Temple.

To my surprise, upon arrival at the stadium where the celebration festivities were to occur, I was offered what I felt was a chance of a lifetime. I was given a "press pass" giving me free access to all of the festivities. I was up on the stand near President Monson. I was down, in amongst the performers. Of course, being down by the performers has its drawbacks too... it was hard to see everything at once (it was huge!) plus I almost got trampled one time as a large group of performers ran towards me from behind while I was photographing what was happening in front of me. (when I noticed them running towards me, I simply ducked down low and let them run around me)

That was on Saturday. The next morning was the dedication itself, which was preceded by the setting of the Corner Stone by Pres. Monson and several people who he called up to help him.

Here are just a "few" of the more than 1200 images I shot at the celebration:

























And here are some of the images captured at the setting of the corner stone:








Finally, I didn't get much of a chance to take pictures of the temple itself. But here are a few of the ones I did get:






ADDED LATER:
Here's a link to the rest of the pictures on my web site:
http://www.dterryphotography.com/Events/534383

Congratulations Cameron and Tara!

Cameron and Tara were married on Friday in the LDS Bountiful Utah Temple. A big congratulations to the both of them. What a wonderful couple!