Canon in F/8 by MarS VasqueZ

Chandler

2011-06-07T02:39:00.001-06:00

Selena

2011-06-07T02:35:00.003-06:00

Robison's

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Alex

2011-06-07T02:33:00.001-06:00

She's wow :)

Crino's

2011-06-07T02:30:00.003-06:00

Ladies

2011-06-07T02:28:00.005-06:00

Shaffer Boys

2011-06-07T02:21:00.002-06:00

On a California Highway

2011-05-24T00:26:00.002-06:00

Mars Smile 2009

2011-03-29T00:13:00.000-06:00

In Thought

2011-03-01T22:27:00.002-07:00

Anthony & Katie

2011-02-27T18:19:00.002-07:00

My nephew Anthony and his fiance, Katie.

La Luna

2011-02-27T13:06:00.000-07:00

Someone once told me that my thumb can cover the whole moon….. That’s one thing I’ll always remember. The rest will fade into time….

La Luna 02.17.11, Wasatch Mountains, Utah.

Poki

2011-02-26T13:04:00.000-07:00

PBR & Make-Up

2011-02-25T13:04:00.000-07:00

The Wright's

2010-12-14T03:11:00.002-07:00

Subway. Rome, Italy.

2010-10-27T00:51:00.002-06:00

Herriman Fire

2010-09-19T23:58:00.001-06:00

The fire broke out at the Camp Williams machine gun range during a training exercise just before 3:30 p.m. on Sunday September 19, 2010. Mandatory evacuations are in place. As of 11:57 PM, three homes have burned down.

Drangonflies

2010-09-16T21:14:00.000-06:00

It only takes a little pondering to realize I'm holding a miracle in my hand....

Payton Addyson :)

2010-09-15T21:04:00.000-06:00

Tiny, beautiful miracle...

Sunset Over The Wasatch Mountains

2010-08-02T23:53:00.004-06:00

Riverton, Utah. August 1, 2010

I Shot Myself

2010-07-16T21:25:00.002-06:00

Lightning Strikes

2010-06-22T20:54:00.002-06:00

I love storms...

Extra! Extra!

2010-04-06T19:42:00.000-06:00

Candy Coated

2010-04-05T21:26:00.001-06:00

Lowland Rugby

2010-04-03T14:46:00.001-06:00

My nephews Seth and James are Rugby Players for the Lowland Rugby football team. Here are a few shots from their games.

Lucy & Tyler

2010-03-15T09:26:00.000-06:00

Seattle Fish

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Yittle itty babies

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Tyler

2010-01-24T14:34:00.002-07:00

The Fountain's Tree

2010-01-15T10:33:00.000-07:00

Sci-Fi Museum. Seattle, Washington.

The Fountain is one of my most favorite movies. If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend it.

This is the Before shot.....

Soaring Over Puget

2010-01-11T11:48:00.000-07:00

Bird flying over Puget Sound. Seattle, Washington.

Freemont Alley

2010-01-10T11:36:00.002-07:00

Freemont, Washington

The Hurts

2010-01-08T17:03:00.000-07:00

“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough”

Think About It

2010-01-07T16:52:00.000-07:00

Brilliant Icicles

2009-12-09T09:34:00.000-07:00

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."

Awed By A Distant World...

2009-12-08T09:30:00.002-07:00

"Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent."

World Aids Day 2009

2009-12-01T22:50:00.003-07:00

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Halloween 2009

2009-11-09T02:20:00.000-07:00

Desolate

2009-11-05T09:38:00.002-07:00

Smile, Beautiful...

2009-10-29T08:42:00.005-06:00

My Love...

2009-10-28T09:04:00.003-06:00

"When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”"

Wyoming

2009-10-22T09:33:00.000-06:00

Self Portrait. Somewhere in Wyoming. September 2009.

Delicate and Beautiful

2009-10-21T10:06:00.002-06:00

My Favorite Things

2009-10-20T09:03:00.000-06:00

Photography, My Lover and Books...

Three of my most favorite things....

Dirty Feet

2009-10-06T09:22:00.000-06:00

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

- Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America, 1977

If Looks Could Kill

2009-10-05T09:23:00.000-06:00

Ode To A Beautiful Nude

2009-08-31T10:34:00.005-06:00

ODE TO A BEAUTIFUL NUDE

With a chaste heart
With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
Holding the leash of blood
So that it might leap out and trace your outline
Where you lie down in my Ode
As in a land of forests or in surf
In aromatic loam, or in sea music

Beautiful nude
Equally beautiful your feet
Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
Your ears, small shells
Of the splendid American sea
Your breasts of level plentitude
Fulfilled by living light
Your flying eyelids of wheat
Revealing or enclosing
The two deep countries of your eyes

The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
Burnished gold
Fine alabaster
To sink into the two grapes of your feet
Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
Flowering fire
Open chandelier
A swelling fruit
Over the pact of sea and earth

From what materials
Agate?
Quartz?
Wheat?
Did your body come together?
Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
The cleavage of one petal
Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
Until alone remained
Astonished
The fine and firm feminine form

It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
Yet suffocate itself
So much is clarity
Taking its leave of you
As if you were on fire within

The moon lives in the lining of your skin

- Pablo Neruda -

Happy Birthday To Me

2009-08-19T10:51:00.001-06:00

“Will you love me in December as you do in May,

Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?

When my hair has all turned gray,

Will you kiss me then and say,

That you love me in December as you do in May?”

~ James Walker

Orange & Blue

2009-07-09T12:46:00.000-06:00

Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah

I Love Trees

2009-07-08T12:40:00.002-06:00

Dead Horse Point State Park

Bush Loving Teenage Boys

2009-06-19T14:31:00.001-06:00

Chucks & Oxygen

2009-06-11T12:11:00.002-06:00

We all scream for ice cream

2009-06-03T09:27:00.002-06:00

Smokes, Coffee & Conversations

2009-06-02T23:19:00.002-06:00

Tears, Smiles & Goo

2009-06-02T23:09:00.000-06:00

Goggled

2009-06-01T22:56:00.001-06:00

Brandy

2009-05-31T14:32:00.002-06:00

Here's a sneak peek :D

Solitude

2009-05-29T00:39:00.002-06:00

There is a solitude in me that I embrace. A solitude that provides a channel for my thoughts. A place where I can expand on emotions or feel my way through an idea. I meet with myself there quite often, spending moments that are uninterrupted by lifes judgments or the ideologies of others.

I entertain magical thoughts, thoughts about the beauty of a star, its power all too often taken for granted. Thoughts about love and all its sadness and its many amazing possibilities ... the power it creates in me, the way in which it nurtures me, drives me, motivates me, inpires me to want to do good for others. I think of falling stars, lonely trees, open fields, about life moving in slow motion .... how much more beautiful some things are when you slow them down... a tumbleweed, a kiss on the cheek, a loving glance - the interlocking fingers of two hands in love, a smile, a sigh. Solitude is not loneliness, it is a gift. A gift too many don't take advantage of. I for one, enjoy the solitude - I seek it, thirst for it....take full advantage of it. I would not be who I am today, were it not for the quiet moments I spend listening to the world within me....

When was the last time you felt the rhythm of your own heart?

Jump!

2009-05-27T20:39:00.000-06:00

Skies, Wind & Open Road

2009-05-25T16:52:00.003-06:00

Dos Labios

2009-05-16T18:55:00.002-06:00

Hello Spring,

So lovely to see you...

Fluffy Clouds

2009-05-10T12:55:00.002-06:00

Clouds like these never cease to amaze me :D

Rain & Shine

2009-04-28T23:44:00.006-06:00

View from the Warwick Hotel in Denver, Colorado

Le Self Portrait

2009-04-21T13:42:00.002-06:00

Photography, Paints, Design and Mac's - That's my cup of tea :D

Smokinnnn'

2009-04-21T09:03:00.005-06:00

One of my favorites movies of all time is "Breakfast a Tiffany's" - and I still get a kick at how Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard lit up through pretty much the whole movie.

Health issues aside.... I still think smokin' looks so damn sexy on some women.

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since." ~Arturo Toscanini

"Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress." ~D.H. Mondfleur

Chelsea

2009-04-19T12:47:00.004-06:00

The Glass, The Book & The Quote

2009-04-16T20:03:00.003-06:00

I love seeing beautiful things in everyday, random places....

Dear Snow,

2009-04-16T20:01:00.001-06:00

You can go away now. Thanks.

DJ Nico Caliente

2009-04-15T08:22:00.000-06:00

I Heart Photoshop CS4

2009-04-14T23:13:00.003-06:00

An overly dramatic edit to briefly demonstrate the power of Photoshop.

I heart it. I've been using it for about 9 years and I learn something new about it every day.

BEFORE

AFTER

19

2009-04-13T10:49:00.011-06:00

Today would have been my sister and Seth's 19th wedding anniversary. We all took the day off from work and school and spent time together remembering Seth's life and celebrating the day she married the coolest guy ever.

Neigh Trio

2009-04-09T00:04:00.000-06:00

Draper, Utah. October 2008. Shortly after sunrise.

He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.

~Author Unknown

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. "

~Winston Churchill

On Death

2009-04-08T00:22:00.002-06:00

Murray Park, Utah.

Whitman and Gibran are my favorite writers. That their words can transcend space and time and still.... resound so loudly within me, within so many I'm sure....

I've been thinking about Seth a lot. His passing, his life ... and the fact that I haven't really felt him since he's been gone. I'll admit that my faith has been tested, but when I find myself doubting his existence I resort to these words and in them, I find peace.

WALT WHITMAN

(From Song of Myself - Leaves of Grass)

What do you think has become of the young and old men?

And what do you think has become of the women and

children?

They are alive and well somewhere,

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,

And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait

at the end to arrest it,

And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,

And to die is different from what any one supposed, and

luckier.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

(From The Prophet)

For what is it to die but to stand naked

in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to

free the breath from its restless tides, that

it may rise and expand and seek God unen-

cumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of

silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the moun-

tain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your

limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Beautiful eh?

AshBasH

2009-04-06T23:20:00.002-06:00

There are VERY few people I consider friends. Few who actually get to see me without my guard up. Ashley is one of these and as much as I wanna drop kick her sometimes - I still appreciate the reality that we could watch paint dry together and STILL find something in it to laugh hysterically about. Who else could possibly suggest Taco Tuesdays on Thursdays? Hello.

Black & White Jelly

2009-04-05T13:39:00.000-06:00

I love these creatures...

Tower of the Americas

2009-04-03T13:51:00.000-06:00

San Antonio, Texas. Tower of the Americas as seen from Hemisfair Park

Blazers & Sneakers ... now that's my kind of boy :D

2009-04-02T19:36:00.000-06:00

Little Curly Curiosity

2009-04-01T17:32:00.002-06:00

Old Concrete

2009-03-31T19:28:00.001-06:00

Off the River Walk in San Antonio, Texas.

Carmelo Anthony

2009-03-30T22:19:00.003-06:00

March 28th 2009. Pepsi Center, Denver Colorado. Nuggets vs Warriors

My Comfort

2009-03-20T15:28:00.000-06:00

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.

-Elizabeth Hardwick

Tyffanie

2009-03-06T00:06:00.007-07:00

"This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor..."

-Whitman

A Whole Lot of Justin

2009-03-04T00:40:00.003-07:00

One of the greatest, funniest and most genuine person I have ever known. My friend, lunch/break buddy and my photography sidekick. :D I love you!

Passion

2009-03-01T13:02:00.005-07:00

I sat in a restaurant patio having dinner, witnessing this moment, photographing it and falling in love with the city. This was one of my favorite sights in Rome.

I wondered how old their love was, or how new the lust was. Perhaps it was completely forbidden and if so, how bold to spend 20 minutes engaged in passionate kisses on the open streets of Rome.

I'll never know the story, but whether it was love, lust or both - one thing was undeniable: There was passion.

Once upon a time

2009-02-27T14:22:00.003-07:00

"Hate me today, hate me tomorrow, hate me for all the things I didn't do for you. Hate me in ways, yeah ways hard to swallow. Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you"

-Blue October

Self Portrait

2009-02-26T23:47:00.000-07:00

When you laugh you'll feel
my breath there filling up your lungs
And when you cry
those aren't your tears
I'm there falling down your cheek
And when you say
you love him, taste me.
I'm like poison on your tongue
But when you're tired,
if you're quiet.....
You'll hear me singing you to sleep.

Sisters

2009-02-23T00:04:00.001-07:00

She's one of the best parts of my life. My sister, my hero and my ultimate example.

Danny & Caroline

2009-02-22T18:54:00.000-07:00

Oh my - if I've ever met two characters, Danny and Caroline are it :D Thanks so much for letting me photograph you! Danny, you rock! Thank you for being so encouraging every time I see you!

Daniel & Candice

2009-02-15T11:36:00.000-07:00

This is Daniel and the woman who is helping to change my life. Candice is my personal trainer and although we don't really "know" each other I have an incredible amount of appreciation for her. On the days I feel like giving up because it becomes too difficult or I get discouraged with my weight loss journey - I think about three little words she says to me.... "Push through it" .... It's amazing how someone can say a few simple words to you that suddenly become anchors. I push through it alright, some days suck but in the end, I don't wanna let her down and I most certainly don't want to let myself down either. :D

With that said, thank you both for letting me take your photographs. I had such a great time :D It's awesome to see two people that have so much love for one another. I feel your photographs show that....

One Year

2009-02-12T13:13:00.013-07:00

Somedays I still expect to see you when I walk into your house....

I love you and miss you....

Seth P. Shaffer
Feb 14, 1970 - Feb 12, 2008

God watched you as you suffered
And knew you’d had your share
He gently closed your weary eyes
And took you in His care.
God has you in his keeping
We have you in our hearts,
Your memory is our keepsake
With that we’ll never part.
God saw that you were tired
And a cure was not to be
So he put his arms around you
And whispered, “Come with Me.”
With tearful eyes
we watched you suffer
And saw you fade away
Although we loved you dearly
We could not make you stay.
A golden heart stopped beating
Hard working hands to rest.
God Broke our hearts to prove us
He only takes the best.

Cancer is so limited...

It cannot cripple love
It cannot shatter hope
It cannot corrode faith
It cannot destroy peace
It cannot kill friendship
It cannot suppress memories
It cannot silence courage
It cannot invade the soul
It cannot steal eternal life
It cannot conquer the spirit.

Have a seat?

2009-01-25T12:49:00.000-07:00

Denver, Co.

2009-01-24T18:43:00.001-07:00

J.D.S.

2009-01-15T00:38:00.001-07:00

Denver Ladies :D

2009-01-12T23:24:00.000-07:00

I'll be in Denver this weekend with these two ladies. It's gonna be so much fun :D

Winter Sugarhouse

2009-01-11T23:51:00.001-07:00

All That Glitters

2009-01-10T21:48:00.000-07:00

Neglected 3.2

2009-01-09T23:43:00.000-07:00

Flamingos

2009-01-08T22:19:00.001-07:00

My headboard and the Christmas flamingos.

Drew

2009-01-07T11:29:00.001-07:00

My Heart.

Brooke & Katie

2008-11-28T22:14:00.001-07:00

Congratulations on your engagement.... :D