A photo-review of my recent adventures.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Update
Yeah so I have not written in a while. Perhaps it is because I have not done anything interesting all summer. I am working at Valley Medical Center as a housekeeper on graveyard shift. If anyone is wondering why I have not been on Facebook recently it’s because I put my account on hold, it just took up time and I do not need it this summer. I will be back on when I am at BYU so that I can stay in “the know”. Also I finally got my new camera, I really haven’t been able to go anywhere with it other than my backyard. But I hope to go to the coast and Mt. Rainer towards the end of the summer, I have a polarizing filter coming in the mail which I hope to use at both those locations.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Bridal Veil Falls
I got some friends together and we climbed up the side of Provo Canyon near Bridal Veil Falls. It was fun but not the safest thing I have done. Most of the pathways were narrow made from lose rock. At one point we were sitting down to take a break when a few rocks fell down on us from above. I said “stupid mountain goats” jokingly as I turned around and looked up and saw a mountain goat poking his head out about one hundred feet above us (I took a picture without zooming in to show how far up he was, see if you can find him). We climbed hundreds feet up the falls but eventually the way became impassable due to steeper than usual cliffs and lack of climbing gear. Nevertheless we went to The Malt Shop afterwards and that was tasty.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
More Bonsai and More Ice
My sister Adrian gave me a photography book for my birthday, I have been looking through it and applying some new principles to my shots (mainly shutter speed and aperture). Here are a few that I took while goofing around at the lake today.
I found some moss while I was doing grounds crew yesterday and put it around my chinese elm bonsai, I think it looks pretty nifty.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Bonsai and Ice Sculptures
Adrian told me I should update my blog and talk about my bonsai trees. I have two a juniper and a chinese elm here they are.
Furthermore; here are a few macro shots I took underneath the ice of the creek at my apartment complex. One of the images has a woman trapped in the ice! can you find her? She is wearing a skirt and standing sideways with her face toward the camera.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
William Tyndale
“Born in Wales in 1494. Studied at Oxford and Cambridge. Translated the New Testament into English. Made the scriptures available to common people to expose the false doctrines and corruption of the religious leaders. He was executed on 6 October 1536” (Preach My Gospel p. 45)
For my New Testament class I am taking I am required to read The New Testament twice once in the King James Version and once in a language or translation of my choosing. I decided to choose the William Tyndale Translation because I thought it would be more worth my time than one of those modern English translations, or the Hawaiian Pidgin version: Da Jesus Book (I was sorely tempted to do so; on the later).
The William Tyndale version is of course the first English Edition of the New Testament. It started print in 1526 and as far as I am concerned it is very close to the King James Version. It seems that the KJV liked most of how the WTV translated and only changed a few things. Spelling is of course different: “in the begynnynge was the worde.”
Here are a few quotes from his life:
“Which thing only moved me to translate the new Testament. Because I had perceived by experience, how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth, except the scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue, that they might see the process, order, and meaning of the text: for else, whatsoever truth is taught them, these enemies of all truth quench it again.”
“My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.”
“I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.”
“If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do”
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tracy Aviary
So Adrian took me to the Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park (SLC UT) for my birthday present, it was a lot of fun. I honestly didn’t know what to expect the aviary to be like; but I was surprised to find that they had a good collection of birds from all over the world.
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