MIke Kemp Images

A few more shots with Christian

2011-09-16T15:08:00.003-06:00

Wednesday I was doing post production work until 4:00 a.m. because of a project deadline that I had to hit. I got it done just in time to be on set the next morning. Here are a couple shots from that last day of my sport shoot with Christian.

Some new work with my new friend, Christian

2011-09-14T15:26:00.002-06:00

A few shots from a shoot with JD!

2011-09-01T08:38:00.003-06:00

Here are a few shots from a recent shoot with my friend, JD. I think we made some great images. Guess we'll see how they do!

Martha Stewart? I have images in Martha Stewart Living??? Something's not right here!

2011-08-25T22:16:00.012-06:00

The Sara Lee Corporation, who owns the dusting product, Endust, purchased one of my images of this girl and her mother making a pie to illustrate the idea of spending more time together as a family and less time cleaning. It came out quite a bit darker than I originally made the image but, still looks pretty good! Like always, I have photographed the magazine so you can see which issue it is in more easily, even though I did not shoot the cover photo.

Road Cycling

2011-08-24T08:30:00.004-06:00

I recently did a shoot of my brother who is a road cyclist. Here are some of the images from the shoot. I love having the great outdoors right by my home were I can do a few shots in the studio just before sweet light, and then be on location within minutes to get great outside shots. All these shots were done in about 80 minutes. Thanks to Chris Bunker, my assistant for another great shoot!

SUP Magazine Photo Annual

2011-08-23T15:23:00.004-06:00

Here is a shot that I did with my friend and amazing professional athlete, Caroline Gleich. It was recently published in the SUP Magazine Photo Annual. I have included a pic (which is not mine) of the magazine, the original image, and the image as printed in the magazine.

Two ads in Rocky Mountain Game and Fish Magazine!

2011-08-22T17:35:00.002-06:00

Firestone and Scalibor both bought the commercial rights to use my images to market their products in the September 2011 issue of Rocky Mountain Game & Fish Magazine. Here is the cover of the magazine so you can find it easily if you want (I did not shoot the cover photo). The Firestone ad has a few images in it. Only one of them is mine. It is the image of the hiker on the crest of a rocky mountain. This image was also bought by Hoopes Vision to market their services.

Hunting images in Field and Stream Magazine for Magellan print ad

2011-08-22T17:05:00.004-06:00

Here is a shoot I did a while back. These are some of my earlier hunting images. We froze to death and the wind was absolutely insatiable. Things paid off for this shoot though because Magellan, a well known GPS company bought the images to market the Magellan eXplorist® Outdoor GPS Series. There are 4 images in this ad and two of them are mine. I also showed the cover of the Field and Stream issue that they are in so you can find them if you want.

2011-08-22T15:54:00.004-06:00

Here is a snap shot of my new mountain bike. I was heavy into mountain biking while in high school, but after a few bad bikes, a lack of money, and time, I let my love for this sport slip away. I went on a ride with my brother a few weeks ago using my old Trek Y3 bike. We did a 25 mile ride starting at the top of Guardsman pass in BCC and rode to the bottom of Millcreek Canyon. It was a great ride, but 25 miles on an old bike that wasn't quality in the first place, got me motivated to finally find a new bike. This is not a top of the line $5,000 bike, but it is a very nice Specialized Camber Elite 29er, equipped with XT shifters, SLX front derailer, and a XT rear derailer. This is a bike that normally cost well over $2,000 with Alivio shifters, but I got it and upgraded to the XT shifters for just over $1,600. I thought it was a pretty good deal.

2011-08-22T15:27:00.004-06:00

Last Saturday I did a pretty intense mountain bike ride on the 157 trail. Here are a few shots I took with my iphone. I always take my real camera on these rides, but this time I decided to just ride and I am sorely regretting it. The views were amazing as this storm rolled over the mountains with the evening sun back lighting the scene. Taking these images with my iphone would have been like trying to ride these trails with a bmx bike. Just doesn't do justice to what I saw, but none the less, at least I have something to remember this ride by.

2011-08-22T15:17:00.002-06:00

I had the opportunity to do a photoshoot with some cowboys as they were branding cows. I live in a pretty rural area where opportunities like this come by often. I want to thank my friend Steve Streadbeck for keeping his eye out and basically producing this shoot for me. I also want to thank the cowboys for working with me on this shoot. We made some really nice images. Which one is your fave?

Pheasant Hunt shoot!

2011-08-22T13:55:00.005-06:00

Pheasant hunting is always a fun time. Here are a few images from a pheasant hunting shoot I did. My goal with this shoot was to capture images that will get hunters excited for fall and all the fun that comes with being outdoors in the fall hunting season. Have a look and let me know your thoughts!

2010-12-28T22:47:00.005-07:00

Here are some images from a spontaneous shoot I did today with a good friend of mine, Caroline Gleich, and my cousin, Damien, from Switzerland. Thanks for forcing me to shoot lean, Caroline! I am really loving the results! Caroline is full of talent in many areas! Please check out her website here.

Gun Composite

2010-12-02T10:11:00.007-07:00

I wanted to create a photograph of a bullet coming out of a barrel. We didn't have a high speed camera so we composited these elements together to make the image.

SUP shoot at GSL

2010-11-22T13:28:00.000-07:00

A good friend of mine named Caroline Gleich and I recently did a Stand up Paddle board shoot. Her boyfriend, Forrest Shearrer joined us and between the three of us, we came up with some pretty cool shots. Hard to believe that this was shot in November at the GSL. It was just a few days after this shoot that the snow started flying. Visit me on Facebook to see more images.

A little update

2010-10-14T08:44:00.000-06:00

I finally updated my portfolio site. I guess that is what happens when the shooting slows down a bit. I woke up one recent morning and realized that I actually have time to market and update the site. I would still rather be shooting. That is OK, I've got a bunch lined up! Here are a few shots recently added. Click here to see more.

Niagara Falls Trip

2010-10-13T22:24:00.000-06:00

Had a great time shooting with my brother's father-in-law at Niagara Falls in August. Here is one of my favorite images. This was shot as a few separate frames then composited together.

Add Campaign for Beretta Firearms

2010-10-11T16:57:00.001-06:00

Here is a current ad campaign I shot for Beretta Firearms, branding their Extrema 2 shotgun.

Agency : Eveland & Partners
Writer : Peter Nichols
Art Director : Steve Pollack, Andrew Lewis

super hero and pilot

2010-04-05T08:58:00.000-06:00

Here are a few shots from a shoot that I recently did. It was a lot of fun making the airplane, although it took much longer than I thought.

This little guy was a real sport. He had to do about 10 jumps to get the right one for the shot. No compositing arms, legs, or capes for this shot. We shot this in the studio and added the sky in post.

shot in my studio...

2010-04-02T08:35:00.000-06:00

If you read my last posting, mentioned the great support that Cindy is for me. This is a case in point example. She was doing pull-ups on a ladder to make this shot possible. I'll explain....

I wanted to do this tight rope business shot but didn't have a tight rope or the money to call the circus and get one. So I took a trip to home depot and bought some rope. problem solved right? Not quite. Because this was a studio shot, I didn't have a real way to anchor the rope to make it solid enough for someone to walk on. So instead, I just stretched the rope between two light stands about 6 inches off the studio floor. Then I put a ladder so it spanned over the rope. Then Cindy got under the ladder, did a pull-up so she could carefully put just the right amount of weight onto the rope, making it appear that she was actually walking on it. Needless to say we did this shot in just a few takes. If you look at the raw images, the edges of the ladder show just a little bit in the corners. I should have shot the set, so as to show it better. I promise to be better at this in the future. I also did a male version of this. I was the only person in the studio acting as photographer and model. This type of thing only works for shots where my face doesn't show!

Ok, once the shot was made, I added white space to make it square did a simple composite of the sky into the background and voila! C'est fini!

Just some thoughts....and a bit of history

2010-04-02T07:41:00.000-06:00

So here's my story for the last 5 years. I started shooting stock photography for Rubberball Productions in 2004 right after graduating from BYU. I started on a good salary and moved fairly quickly into a bigger salary+a percentage of my sales each quarter. After about 18 months into the job the real money started coming in. Life was great! I did what I loved, I came home after work at a decent hour, spent a good amount of time with my beautiful family. I had made it!....or had I? hmmm, not so fast Mikey. It wasn't long before the economy came crashing down, I had a two year limit that I could receive royalties on my images that was fast approaching, sales in general took a nose dive, and my new images that I was working my tail off to create were not getting posted, so the number of images I was getting a royalty on was depleting quickly. On top of that, I was asked to take a significant pay cut. This is what I call the perfect storm. It wasn't long before lay-offs started to happen. I knew that my days were numbered as an employee at Rubberball Productions. What was I going to do with my career. All I knew was photography, after all, I made the decision to be a photographer as a junior in High school and haven't looked back since. I just couldn't see myself doing anything else! So it was a natural move for me to simply keep shooting stock...despite the fact that it is a very difficult industry to make a living with. It is now the beginning of April. I was officially laid off mid July last year, and I have shot about 1,200 images, about 500 of them are live and starting to make sales. Being on my own is very difficult. I had a team of about 5 very talented colleagues that made the things possible. Now I do most of the pre, post, and production on my own with my wonderful wife, Cindy using every free minute she can conjure up to do the business end of things. She is also very good at keeping me on track. She even assists, and models from time to time. I couldn't do it with out her, no way, no how. Even though getting laid off was a very scary and difficult thing, I would never go back! It is 10 times more rewarding to produce an image and know that I own the copyrights, and can do what I want with that image. I love looking back at a shoot and knowing that, for better or worse, I own it!

Read this article by a great photographer, Jack Hollingsworth, who articulates much better than I can the tenacious spirit one must have in order to plow through the many obstacles in search of the few opportunities. Read it here.

Some fun images

2010-04-01T21:46:00.000-06:00

Here are some images from a shoot that I did last week. These were shot in the studio lit to feel more like they are outside, then I added the skies in post.

San Diego LDS Temple

2009-11-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

I recently took a trip to San Diego California with my family. It was very last minute, so we didn't have anything planned. I have to admit, it was kind of nice to spend a week just being lazy and doing nothing. This is a shot of the San Diego LDS Temple that I shot while I was down there. I made this image by photographing the temple in four different segments, then putting the four images together in photoshop. This way, I get an image that is much more detailed and higher quality then if I just shot the whole temple in the frame of my camera. I plan on making huge prints of the temple images, and that is why I am photographing them the way I do. Below the image of the temple are the segments of the temple as I photographed them before I put them together in Photoshop.

LDS Temple images

2009-10-28T21:43:00.000-06:00

It's kind of weird that I have traveled the world to photograph cathedrals, but I have never photographed any of the beautiful LDS temples that I am surrounded by. I guess when something is close by, I don't appreciate it like I should. I guess I could say the same for GOING to the temple. what's worse, is that I never even really thought of photographing these beautiful temples until I was asked to do it. I have received a lot of complaints that it's hard to find well done images of the temples, and was asked by my brother, John to photograph the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. So one evening while I was in the area I did just that. I really enjoyed making these images, so I am going to make pictures of other temples in the region as well. I am also now contacting distributors so that I can make these images available in stores.

I made these pictures by shooting two horizontal images, each capturing about 1/2 of the temple. Then I seamlessly put them together in Photoshop to make one image. By doing this, I get a much higher quality image than the camera can produce with a single frame. It's like shooting on a camera that is about 35 megapixels instead of 21 megapixels, without the need of buying a $30,000 dollar digital back... which someday I hope to do. These images are available in 16x16 prints for $99. Please contact me if you are interested.

Dans le Bain!

2009-10-22T10:02:00.000-06:00

I had in-laws in town from France for a few weeks and we wanted to get some pictures of them before they left. We sat around the table on their last night trying to decide what concepts to cover. Fall leaves was an option as we are in the middle of October, but (no pun intended)...Look down at the first image if that didn't make sense. We had to do the shoot early in the morning because the had their flight in the early afternoon. That meant it would be too cold for the kids, so we scratched that idea. Then Jérémie, my brother-in-law suggested we photograph the kids in the bath. Merci pour le bonne idée, Jérémie! I should have guessed what a mess it was going to make! Well worth it though. I think we got some great images!
Here's some details on how I shot the shoot for those who are interested.

There is a window right above the bath tub. I put a profoto light using a 7b portable power pack outside the window. I put some difussion material over the window to soften up the light. I cranked the power up on the light to max. That allowed me to shoot the images at f16. This was important to me because with the movement of kids I knew I would need some forgiveness with the focus. The results were great, even though it went fast and the kids were all over the place, my in-focus ratio was very high. Every image that I selected was in sharp focus. There is nothing I hate more than seeing that perfect image then opening it only to find that it is out of focus! OK, so the back light through the window is too contrasty alone, so I added 3x4 foot fill cards all over the set to fill in the shadows. By the way, as far as shooting at f16 goes, This is a fairly rare situation where I allow myself to do that, and the reason why it was OK in this situation is because I didn't care if the background was in focus because it was so simple. If I were in a situation were I had a background that could get busy (I.E. trees, etc.) I would not even consider shooting at f16. I would be at more like f5.6. I hope you enjoy the images!

Gymnastics shoot at All American Gymnastics

2009-09-14T20:58:00.000-06:00

I have been very lazy with posting images for the last few months. Ever since I got laid off Rubberball Productions I have been very busy setting up my own stock production company. This shoot was actually done a few months ago, and I am finally getting around to posting it! All American Gymnastics was kind enough to let me do a shoot at their facility for copies of the images from the shoot. I worked with some really amazing gymnasts there and want to thank them for working with me.

Prints for Sale!

2009-07-08T06:50:00.000-06:00

Beautify your home! I have a collection of images that people have been expressing interest in, and I now have printing capabilities up to 17" wide. Here are some prints that are available for sale. I can make these prints fast, and they are beautiful true giclée prints made from my Epson 3800 photographic printer. Questions....please call, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. If you have any custom needs I can probably address them as well.
Orders can be made via email or phone number written below. Please refer to image number as well as image name when ordering to avoid confusion.

8x10 $49 + (optional) $19 to mount and over matt on 11x14 cotton rag board
11x14 $99 + (optional) $25 to mount and over matt on 16x20 cotton rag board
16x20 $149 + (optional) $49 to mount and over matt on 22x24 cotton rag board

25% off second prints!
50% off third prints!

mike@mikekempimages.com

801.358.1364

(1) Astronomical Clock, Prague Czech Rebublic

(2) windmills La Mancha, Spain

(3) St. Nicholas Church Prage, Czech Republic

(4) Chateau Fougeres, France

(5) Cathedral Quimper, France

(6) Chateau Chillon, Switzerland

(7) Lucern, Switzerland

(8) Lucern, Switzerland #2

(9) Lucern, Switzerland #3

(10) Chateau Chillon, Switzerland

(11) Chamonix, France

(12) Annecy, France

(13) Waterfall in Chamonix, France

(14) Window in Annecy, France

(15) Chateau Fougeres at dusk, France

(16) Street scene Fougeres, France

(17) Lucern, Switzerland River

(18) Chateau de la Bretesche, France

(19) Windmills and Castle La Mancha, Spain

(20) Chateau Fougeres Façade, france (color)

(21) Chateau Fougeres Façade, France (B+W)

(22) Chateau Chambord Loire Valley, France

One of my favorite locations!

2009-07-07T08:39:00.000-06:00

I was at lunch with some friends a month or so ago, and I was asking them if they knew where I could find a tree alone in the middle of a field. I wanted to do a shoot in a place like that and had know idea where to find what I was looking for. My friend Brea, told me about this place. I went with her to scout it and I knew it would be perfect as soon as I saw it. I made Brea hang on the tree to make sure it was strong enough for my model to swing on it. Thanks Brea!

Welding shoot at Utah Powder Coatings

2009-06-25T17:19:00.000-06:00

This is one of my favorite images that I did in a welding shop here in Orem, Utah called Utah Powder Coatings. There's nothing like photographing welding to make one feel like a real man....except for perhaps actually welding.

Juxtaposition of color

2009-06-24T12:39:00.001-06:00

playing in the rain!

2009-06-22T11:51:00.003-06:00

I shot these images back in April. But with the way the weather has been, I could have easily done these same shots in May...or June...and who knows, at this rate, maybe even July! I arrived on set about an hour early, and the skies had great texture in them. I got nervous that they would flatten out before we could get shooting, so I photographed the them before the talent arrived. Sure enough, when we were ready to shoot, the skies were a dead flat grey...Boring!!! That was OK though because I was confident that I could get the final image that I wanted, knowing that I had pre-shot the skies. So the skies were really there...just not at the same time as the talent! I love having the compositing option! Big thanks to Mary Beth for sticking it out in the rain for two hours of shooting, and also Josh for introducing me to Mary Beth!

Painting fruit

2009-06-15T15:23:00.000-06:00

Here's some images from today's shoot.

Football/album cover shoot

2009-06-12T07:39:00.000-06:00

I need your input! Which do you prefer and why? Square or Vertical?

Here's a shot from yesterday's shoot. This was taken during a shoot I did with a great football player named James (JD) Allen who plays for Utah Valley Thunder. The shoot was primarily for his rap album that he is releasing soon (which by the way, is really good west coast rap). I will let you all know when it is available. I did a few shots that were not for his album, this is one of them. I will post later. Pardon the lack of touching up on the image. This is just a screen capture of the raw image.

Dancing shoot with Chelsie Hightower

2009-06-11T13:13:00.000-06:00

This was a fun shoot that I did with some very talented dancers who have since gone far with their talents. Chelsie Hightower (top image) has been on So You Think You Can Dance, and Dancing with the Stars. Jared Murillo (second image) has signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records and he is in a boy band called VFactory. I'm not sure what Averie Delgrosso(third picture down) is up to, but she was great to work with, and a very talented dancer. Hopefully she will make a career with her talents. Hefa Tiuta (bottom picture) is a great dancer as well, he is in Nickelodeon's newest TV show called Dance on Sunset. He was also in a Warner Bros. film called Unaccompanied Minors.

Basketball

2009-06-11T08:19:00.000-06:00

Here's some images from a shoot that I did a couple of weeks ago with some very talented basketball players. Of course, we had to do some 80's Michael Jordan style slams! I really wanted some chain link fence for this shoot to use as a reveal but the location didn't have one so I had Kelby (my assistant) buy some to set up there for some of the shots. I think it turned out pretty fun.

Kings of Leon

2009-06-07T21:51:00.000-06:00

I found out that Kings of Leon used one of my images as their "Because Of The Times" album cover. Another photographer named Patrick Lane suggested that I post it on my blog. Thanks Patrick! I don't know why I never thought of doing that. I guess that it just slipped my mind. I also want to thank Tyler Marshall for his ideas and for building the rig that we used to make it all work.

My new website just went live! Check it out!

2009-06-03T14:15:00.000-06:00

Sorry, it has been forever since my last post. However, I do have good news....I just launched my new site! I am very excited about it. Now it is time to pound the pavement and find some work. I just put in for a big job doing fine art images for the V.A. hospital in Ogden. I'm really hoping to get this job because it would be tons of fun, and it is a project that has great meaning to me as well.
check it out here!

Hoops Highlights

2009-03-23T12:08:00.000-06:00

Last week I did a shoot with this great basketball player. OK, so lately I've been on a sports kick. I really enjoy photographing athletic people. Sports photography was actually a goal I set for myself a several years back. Other opportunities came up and I took another direction. Now I'm redirecting my work in that motion at least for a while. As for now the images are athletic portraits, but I have some plans to shoot more action shots as well. Enjoy and feel free to bag on any of my work as I'm sure most of you see these images and think "oh if he would have just done this!!!"

Burning stuff in the studio

2009-02-04T17:15:00.001-07:00

So how could I do a shoot of frozen stuff without doing a shoot of burning stuff as well. I have to admit that as I was doing this shoot I was having a hard time believing that I actually do this for a living. I mean, how many people get to make cool props, douse them with flammable liquids, burn them and take pictures of them as they are engulfed in flames? Ahhh, good times, good times.

A few more duck hunt images

2009-01-21T16:45:00.000-07:00

I've finished doing some post work on some more duck hunt images. I also noticed that I did some bad editing on the image of the dad showing the duck to his son. The image in this posting is much better than the one in the previous posting because they are closer together and the story is told better because the duck is more visible. I understand that to many of you, perhaps it's better not to see the poor dead duck...sorry, after all it is a hunting shoot.

Teaser!

2009-01-19T08:58:00.001-07:00

Sneak Peek at my most recent shoot. I still have a fair amount of post-production to do, but I wanted to post just on image to give you an idea of what's to come. I'll talk more about the shoot as I post more images later this week. So be sure to re visit at the end of the week to see more!

Finally did the duck hunting shoot!

2008-12-19T10:38:00.000-07:00

Now I do realize that almost not a single person that looks at this posting cares or knows much about duck hunting, so instead of making this a class on duck hunting I'll just let you enjoy the images for what they are. Finding a group of duck hunters that actually want to take time out of their busy hunting schedules and actually do a shoot with me was almost impossible. I can understand this because I also try to go every free minute I get. There were several hunters that seemed to just disappear during pre-production of this shoot. Every time I went out myself, I would talk to hunters and see if they would be interested in doing the shoot. Every single one of those contacts fell through. The months went by and our warm weather was slipping away. I finally met these hunters on the boat launch a couple of weeks ago and they seemed pretty interested. It seemed like it was the next morning that the lake was frozen over. That means no shoot until spring. I sat in my office depressed because so much work had gone to waste. Then the thought came to my mind that there was a place on the lake where a river flowed in, That flowing water would keep a certain area from freezing. I jumped into the truck and drove to the spot. Just as I hoped, there was open water. Filled with excitement, I called the hunters that I had previously met. Luckily, they were kind enough to do the shoot the next day. I knew that it had to be done that next day because it was very cold and any more time would allow my location to freeze up. The next morning I went out to prepare the shoot and the lake had frozen from the shore to about 200 yards out. I spent 4 hours breaking ice and moving it off the shore. My back is still sore, but the shoot went great, and the hunters were super nice and great to work with. Here's just a few of my favorite images from the shoot.

Uncle Sam

2008-12-01T16:56:00.000-07:00

I've been wanting to do this shoot for well over a year now, but it has been difficult to cast the right Uncle Sam. When I found this guy, I really felt that I had someone who could pull it off quite well.

Puppets! Need I say more?

2008-11-14T18:16:00.000-07:00

Fly Fishing Shoot

2008-10-21T08:34:00.000-06:00

This is a combination of two fly fishing shoots. The first image was shot in September and the others were shot in October. I loved the layer of frost that was covering the all the grass on the ground on the day two shoot.

Big Game Hunt Shoot

2008-10-14T13:36:00.000-06:00

After researching on Getty the keyword "hunting" and other related words, I realized that there are almost no images of red necks on hills looking for animals to kill. The only stuff I saw for the most part were animals killing other animals. I guess if you think about it, were animals as well, so these images will fit in with the rest of what's on Getty...or something like that.

Frozen Stuff!

2008-10-08T15:55:00.000-06:00

This week we have been working on concepts using objects that we would freeze and then photograph. Technically, it was challenging to figure out how I wanted to do the process to make it look real, and very cold. After a few days of experimenting we came up with a few images that I am pretty happy with. In my opinion it can still have some improvements, but we still have several more concepts to cover, and hopefully we can see improvements as we go.

Salt Flats Shoot

2008-09-22T19:40:00.000-06:00

Right around the end of May we did a 3-day shoot at the Salt Flats. It was right before it started getting hot, in fact the temps went from a high of 65 on day one to a high of about 85 on day three. We snuck that shoot in by the skin or our teeth. In case you haven't noticed, I hate shooting in the heat...I hate the heat in general.

Hiking/outdoor shoot

2008-09-22T17:55:00.001-06:00

Here's some images from my favorite location of the summer. We did three shoots there between July 21st and August 30th. Sorry for not posting for so stinking long. I promise to post more often in case there is anybody interested. BTW, the colors in these images is destroyed because of saving them for the web. Sorry you're not getting to see the real colors!

France, Switzerland 2007

2007-12-27T08:55:00.002-07:00

Two weeks after returning from China. Cindy and I went to France and Switzerland for the wedding of her sister. Of course, I had to turn it into an opportunity to make some images. These kind of images are what I really like to do. If I had my choice, this is what I would do for a living. Not to say that I don't like making the pictures that I make. I just really like shooting European cityscapes. For one part of the trip I got a whole day alone in Lucerne, Switzerland. That was a very productive day, and I would say, the best day of the whole trip.

China 2007

2007-12-27T08:55:00.001-07:00

In June We (Eddie and I and our wives went to China to do some photo shoots. It was a great time, but tons of work. We did 21 hour days for most of the trip. The heat and humidity combination was overwhelming. The temperatures ranged from 100 to 118 degrees and the humidity was around 90%. The smog was ridiculous as well. Sometimes we had to look through the smog just to see across the street. We were hoping to produce around 600 images to stay within budget. We kind of felt like that was a dream, but we ended up producing between 600 and 700 images. Here are a few of my favorite images from the trip.