A private pond located in Mapleton, Utah.  As seen during sub-freezing temperatures late December 2012.

This year I had a unique opportunity to visit home, home for me is Utah.  Specifically home is Salem, though my in-laws are located in Mapleton where I took these photographs.  I hadn't been home just a few weeks shy of two years, though it felt like I hadn't been home for over three, since before joining the military and leaving post-bootcamp to San Diego.  At the time it was just my wife and I, this year we had an addition to the family, a happy bundle of joy who's now learned to crawl and at the tender age of six months is already terrorizing the lower-regions of the household like any good little girl would.

For those who haven't seen snow close up, it can be as intriguing to look in to as fire, though a fire tends to be warmer than snow (not that it's much of a surprise).

Being home is surreal to me, the previous two Christmas's I'd had the opportunity to walk outside wearing shorts and a t-shirt, even flip-flops if I so desired.  This year we were greeted with snow nearly every day and sub-freezing temperatures the remainder of the time.  Still, temperature aside it was the joy of being with family that made it all more than worth it.  It's a funny thing that to be around people you know and love can make what may otherwise be a less-enjoyable attribute of a circumstance much more enjoyable.  For example, the cold can be overwhelming, but when spent with family or friends sipping hot cocoa and reminiscing on stories of years past it can be quite nostalgic.  This past trip was the latter, though now that I think about it I'm confident we didn't sip any hot cocoa and I've sipped more in the summer in San Diego than I can remember sipping any other time of the year since moving here but I digress.

Another view of a private pond located in Mapleton, Utah.  As seen during sub-freezing temperatures late December 2012, this is taken while physically on the frozen pond, though just barely out from the shore.

Home is where the heart is, it's where your family is, it's where the people you're closest to reside and it's everything others say it's not cracked up to be.  Wherever you call home, whatever weather may be like there, and whatever 2013 has in store for you, may you find happiness in your lot and with your family.

Christmas 2012

Christmas in Salem, Utah. 2012

It's been too long, too long since images have been added and too long since I've been at home for Christmas.  Salem, Utah is a unique small town in the southern portion of Utah County that despite it's exponential growth in recent years has remained a tightly knit community.  That closeness allows the city to provide features like these. 

Expect more images and blurbs to be posted again in the near future, more images (and less words) can be found here at my professional Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/CrownPhoto

Photo's can be bought from me directly through this site:
http://fotoneurotic.photostockplus.com/

 That above link is a fairly large portfolio, it contains over a hundred images, mostly of Nature or Wildlife but there's a fair amount of Street Photography and City Life type images in it as well.

Enjoy!!

Paul Crown (PC Photo, "fotoneurotic")

Freedom flies in the background, allowing
all to enjoy their holiday season as they desire.

The world and hearts are all aglow during the Christmas Season.

In Search of: The American Dream

In pursuit of the American Dream, 2012

More still, of the American Dream

More of the American Dream

Just about there

Almost done....

The American Dream, Circa 2007

The set up.

Maternity Photographs

What would yours say?

So easily we lose track of the time and let slip the opportunities we have to record the great journey we undertake when we start a family. 

Let PC Photo take part in your families journey from pregnancy through the newborn photos, helping you in recording the memories you're making.

Don't let a moment slip

What does your baby enjoy you do the most?

Make a memory that's perfect for You!

Some times night time is the best time for photos.

Take us with you on your journey through pregnancy.

Each person has unique experiences, help your children remember them.

Cross Processing for a better world

Digital Cross Processing

Digital Cross Processing

The principle is simple, shoot a roll of slide film and develop it using the standard color film process rather than the slide film process.  The result is colors that are out of the range they would normally appear in.  The process works similiarly if you shoot normal film and have it processed as slide film, though the second option is much more involved. 

So why cross processing?  Because it allows the photographer another tool to use to help push a point across to the viewer from any background and though language barriers may exist the visual arts have been breaking down the barriers between languages for far longer than photograpy has existed.  This particular grouping of images is part of a collection designed to push the extreme of what may become a reality if our waste of natural resources isn't curbed as our gluttony if not put in check may well result in our no longer having clean cities, clean air or clean water.  I hope you chuckled just barely.  All of those issues are a reality, but to what end will you let it continue to slide?

Yes I just picked on you.  And you, and you and you.  Why?  Because if it's not driven home to each one of us how we can all play part to making the world a cleaner and more beautiful home then we might end up with no home to live in. 

Digital Cross Processing

Digital Cross Processing

Digital cross Processing

Stone Family Portraits

With the Coronado Bridge in the distant background

Here are some images from a recent shoot with the Stone Family. We met over at a park on Coronado and meandered through a few locations there changing our backgrounds as we went. All in all we took just over an hour and the post-production work was extremely minimal. In fact the most that was done aside from correcting a few shadows. Enjoy.

Boys will be boys!

Ooooh, I want that!

Holding close with the bay in the background

Beautiful flowers in bloom

"Watchin' the tide roll away..."

8 Images from various ares of San Diego

An open exposure at one of the tidal pools off Point Loma.

Another open exposure off a tidal pool at Point Loma.

Seagull in flight off Point Loma.

Another open exposure off Point Loma.

During a rain storm in Sunny San Diego

From the Court House in San Diego during a rain storm.

Night time in Urban San Diego off the main roads.

Another long exposure in Urban San Diego.