So I’m getting ready to roll out the the new and improved trevorchristensen.com, but because of my pending glory, you dear Love City residents have been neglected.

I’m totally sorry guys.

So as penance here’s some thoughts on local photography:

I really like finding good photographers in my city. It’s sort of wakes me up to my environment. It’s easy to look at a photo taken in California or New York and say “Well of course that is a stunning image, they live in an environment that lends itself to it”. But seeing an interesting photo taken 300 feet from my house shakes me out of that mode of thought.

Although seeing lame local photography really bums me out.

I live in Provo, Utah which is a pretty nice place all things considered, but sometimes it seems like we’ve got a glut of bad photographers out there. Check craigslist.com, you’ll see what I mean.

Why is there so much sub-par photography?

I blame the Mormons.

Well not the Mormons themselves, but the culture behind it. Observe.

Mormons are taught from a young age to get married and have a family. It’s one of the most important thing a young man or woman can do.

So that gives us three potential reasons to get photos taken. One, engagement. Two, wedding. Three, family pictures.

The first two of those category’s only come once and are relatively quick & painless, but the third is the killer. Pictures of babys, lead to pictures of toddlers, lead to pictures of kids, lead to pictures of teens, lead to senior portraits.

And look at that. It’s time to get engaged.

So my point is, if everyone is getting engaged, married and having kids there is going to be a large demand for photography. Not all of it good.

So here’s some good stuff.

Puppy photo at Kiwanis Park. Who can’t like that. It’s also right by my house, bonus points.

Photos of Motels on University Ave by Justin Hackworth.

Shadows and light are great. (second large one down) by Scott M. Jarvie.

So that’s what what.

What local photographers are you digging?

Since getting a job I haven’t been able to update this blog regularly, so I’ve decided to change my update schedule to once weekly (instead of every other day).

So I’ll see you next week.

My friend Bruce just got back from four months in Jordan.

Here’s a link to his blog, which has documented his travels. http://bruce-in-jordan.blogspot.com/

I’m offering Photoshop lessons. To learn more, click here.

As part of my internship at Square Magazine I was assigned to take pictures on the theme of Summer.

For teenagers, Summer most embodies freedom. No school, no job and responsibilities be damned.

I’d like to think that motorcycles also embody those values.

I took these pictures on my skateboard. I’d ride along Jason and then pull out ahead pushing as hard as possible. Then while I was going as fast as I could he would pass me, riding as close to me as possible.

It was pretty fun & towards the end all the neighbor kids started chasing after us. After we were finished one of them asked if I was a photographer.

I said I was.