WEEK FOURTY FOUR:

Monday, June 14

Anthroposophical Museum stairway.

Tuesday, June 15

Brainstorming and Design Thinking for a project.

Wednesday, June 16

Fribourg, Switzerland from the top of a nearly 1,000 year old cathedral.

Thursday, June 17

Rolex Learning Center.

This entire building is shaped like Swiss cheese basically. Google it and see how amazing it is. Really. Google it. Now.

Friday, June 18

Spiez Castle.

Saturday, June 19

This is what Switzerland makes you feel like.

Sunday, June 20

Father's Day.

Since I was away from my father today and my daughter, I thought today would be pretty hard. Thankfully, I had a reason to forget about myself.

I met a friend here on my study abroad trip-Mandy. Her dad served part of his mission in a city called Lugano and it apparently was one of his favorite areas. From where we are it is about a six hour train ride one way to reach Lugano. Not close. Mandy told some of us the other day that she wanted to make the trek out there and get some photos of her in Lugano, print them, frame them and give them to her dad for Father's Day. When I heard this idea, I almost teared up because I thought how much I would appreciate the same gift from my daughter. And I knew I had become part of this epic journey. And it was epic. Here's just a sampling from today's epicness. And yes, the 12+ hours on the train were awesome.

WEEK FORTY THREE:

A quick side note:

With how busy I find myself while away, I don't have much time to dedicate to the description of each photo. Please don't mind the small description for each.

Monday, June 7
Castle ruins in Sion, Switzerland.

Tuesday, June 8

The Valley of Death just before the St. Bernard Monestary/Hospice.

If you look close in the bottom right corner there are little dots trailing up the side-those are people hiking!


Wednesday, June 9

Reflection.



Thursday, June 10
The old morgue at St. Bernard. There are still bodies in there!

Friday, June 11

The Dying Lion monument. Spectacular.

Saturday, June 12

Cowfights. The "humane," form of cow fighting. The cows are not provoked at all, it is more of a hormonal and instinctive thing that makes them want to dual. It's a big deal here. After months of competing, the finalists compete for a grand prize of over 40,000 Francs.

Sunday, June 13

Evyoire, France. Beautiful.

WEEK FORTY TWO:

Friday, June 4

Honestly, I can't get this dumb picture to move down and I'm way too busy right now to mess around with it, so here it is, out of order.

This is in the NJ Newark Airport. It is the only good thing about that horrid place.

Ok, forgive my backwards week, but I started this post in the good 'ole USA and am finishing it in Switzerland and I really don't feel up to moving the images around. So here we are:

Sunday, June 6

Chateau de Chillon castle. One of the best-preserved castles in Europe from the thirteenth century. It was amazing. Here Lord Byron wrote The Prisoner of Chillon.

Saturday, June 5

An image from our hike not long after arriving in Switzerland. Breathtaking.

Thursday, June 3

Yes, I am aware that the picture is "blank." But really, it is black. And it is intentional. With a new life about to start, it felt very fitting to have a black photograph. At the beginning and end of everything (in my mind), it is always black. And Thursday was the end of my life for a while and the beginning of a new life (albiet temporary) in Switzerland.

Wednesday, June 2 The other day while walking to the car, a bat just fell from the sky. It scarred me and I jumped like a real big sissy.

Tuesday, June 2

A semi-new restaurant in Smithfield. It took the place of my favorite bbq place ever-Eddy's BBQ. This new place is pretty good though and despite the name, there is a lot more than you'd think to choose from.

Monday, June 1

Memorial Day. A beautiful day.

WEEK FORTY ONE:

Monday, May 24
More Logan randomness in the weather this week.
Looking at the mountainside cracked me up. Beautiful, lush green leading up to a stark white from the freshly fallen May 24th snow storm.

Tuesday, May 25
Mmm...cashew chicken.

Wednesday, May 26
Sometimes there's a photograph right under our feet.
While taking a break from punching numbers at work, I went outside to walk for a moment and found the cracks in the dry (for once) ground and really appreciated the chaotic pattern of sorts they created.

Thursday, May 27
On my way to one of my orientation classes for the Switzerland trip these flowers caught my attention because of their amazing smell. Even though it didn't feel anything like spring outside, at least it smelled like it!

Friday, May 28
In case you couldn't already tell, we had spaghetti for dinner.
It's funny, lately Cambria has been doing this funny smiley-scowl and it cracks us up.

Saturday, May 29
I quickly designed and threw together these to use as luggage tags for my Switzerland study abroad that is coming up THIS week!

Sunday, May 30
A nice, leisurely Sunday with Grandpa Archie.

Cha-cha-changes

I was thinking last night and decided to expand the use of this blog a bit. I mean, am I photographer? Yes. But I am also close to becoming a professional graphic designer, so why not add in some design to my happenings here?

Keep an eye out. OSC Photography has just become

OSC Photography & Design.

WEEK FORTY:

Monday, May 17
I can rest assured that I'm safe while I'm at work, because the other day I noticed we are using the Securitron system. Awesome.

Tuesday, May 18
Boots? Jeremy with boots? That's right. My first ever legit pair of hiking boots (outside of a ghetto pair I used to wear on camping trips in the old days). These baby's and a pair of snowshoes will be taking me comfortably through the Swiss Alps.

Wednesday, May 19
Shapes and reflections.

Thursday, May 20
Hallie has informed me that this, once upon a time, used to be a storehouse for the temple.

Friday, May 21
My parents cat, Tacauno. Lately he's been sneaking under the covers.

Saturday, May 22
Every year, my friend Jesse organizes a soccer tourney called City Cup. It's pretty rad.
Pictured is Brad Knickerbocker prepped and ready for some action.

Sunday, May 23
I had an entirely different picture that I took for this day, but while looking through my shots from the day, I couldn't resist this one.

WEEK THIRTY NINE:

Monday, May 10
Coheed and Cambria came to SLC on Monday and Hallie and I and a friend were lucky enough to go. I was taking photos and writing a show review for SLUG Mag. The show was, as always, amazing and this photograph should be an indication of that.


Tuesday, May 11
A reflection from a sculpture that resides outside of Old Main up on USU campus.

Wednesday, May 12
The same sculpture from above.

Thursday, May 13
This shot is just one out of a series of about 10-15. It started because I was taking a picture of Cambria in a new chair we got for her for meal time and every time I'd say her name before taking a photo, she'd pull a different face. Hallie and I were laughing sooo hard.

Friday, May 14
Can't get enough of this.

Saturday, May 15
Yesterday we had a bbq planned with some friends that fell through, so we stayed home and grilled here instead. We're really lucky to have awesome neighbors and most with little girls. It was a great night, thanks to the beautiful weather and hanging out with all the neighbors and their kids.

Sunday, May 16
I know dandelions are technically pesky weeds, but I've always thought they were cool. This bee friend did too.

WEEK THIRTY EIGHT:

Monday, May 3
The calm before the pending storm. So nice.


Tuesday, May 4
Texture.

Wednesday, May 5
Yep, still snowing up here in the great Cache north. At least someone doesn't seem to mind-only because she wasn't trapped inside, out of the cold, yet that is.

Thursday, May 6
Seriously? This kiddo just kills me. I mean, look at that!

Friday, May 7
The Graphic Design BFA show was out at the Logan airport this year. It was great. It was inspiring. And admittedly, it was a little intimidating.
When I walked out to my car, I caught this.

Saturday, May 8
My sis-in-law graduated from USU on Saturday. Watch out world, here comes Corrie!

Sunday, May 9
Mother's Day.
I love you mom!

WEEK THIRTY SEVEN:

Monday, April 26
Spring is really fighting to make an appearance in Logan. The trees and all the flowers are doing what feels natural, but for the most part, the weather is fighting them pretty hard.

Tuesday, April 27
One of the sculpture classes took over the grounds outside the Fine Arts building recently and although there was some really cool stuff like this giant block pictured below, there was mostly NOT good work that simply made it look like a dump outside unfortunately.


Wednesday, April 28
The aftermath of a furious spring rain/snow storm. Ah, Logan, why do you have to fight the beautiful spring weather? Just let it come!

Thursday, April 29
Another of the more tolerable projects displayed outside the Fine Arts building.


Friday, April 30
I found an awesome junkyard not too long ago and there is a treasure trove full of shots there.

Saturday, May 1
Another great find from the junkyard.


Sunday, May 2
Cambria couldn't get enough of her own reflection in this mixing bowl. Can't blame her though, she is pretty darn cute.