Slade Photography

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Day trip to the mountains May 2010

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Stapley Vs. Rhodes #15 shots

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For any requests or to see other images from the 2009 Stapley Jr. High Football team, please contact me at (480) 540-0614 please leave me a message and I will get back to you as quick as I can. Thanks!!

Also I am posting the images in a new location at http://www.brianslade.photostockplus.com

Storms Ahead

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Mesa Arizona Temple Panoramic Views

2009-07-08T20:28:00.000-07:00

Today I decided to post some of the pictures I took last semester for my intermediate digital photography class. I put them together as a favor and decided I should post them for fun to show. I've been developing a love for Panoramic views and will continue to pursue them.

Some Wedding Shots Up to Date

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I decided to start putting together portfolios of the work I've accomplished in the past year in order to have examples for potential clients and friends. Also, who doesn't want to show off every once in a while? I realized there's plenty of great shots in the collection and its time to condense them into themes, genres, location, etc... Here's some of the Photos taken from the last few Weddings:

Part I

Part II

Some examples of Wedding Invitationes

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ASU Graduation Ceremony

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I had the great opportunity to go to the graduation last week at ASU where my friend Spencer graduated with a Bachelors Degree from the School of Nursing. Congratulations again Spencer! That's alot of hard work and dedication! As many know, we had the opportunity to hear from President Obama as well. It was the first time I had seen the President of the United States in person and it was a great experience all around. Here are some pictures from the ceremony:

Puerto Rico Even Continued...

2009-05-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

I could help it there's a great story and memory here and the pictures help describe it. We decided to go to a tropical island and sleep on the beach with just the minimum. Yeah, we brought sleeping bags and a tarp. Bad idea. We came back from the other side of the island after having dinner and found all of our stuff different than the way we left it. It hadn't rained on the other side of the island so we were confused, especially since the island gets rain only a couple times a year. Looks like our luck got us again and a freak rain cloud dumped just enough rain to get our sleeping bags and clothes wet. It was around midnight when we got back so we tried to get some sleep. Next we got our second beating for not comping prepared. No matter what we did, every square inch of exposed skin turned into a Thanksgiving Feast for the billions of bugs that came out of the jungle. It was a literal war two against billions!! I took like 100,000 while Heath was taking cover inside his 110 degree sauna bag. Somehow he got sleep that night. While I was praying for the sun to somehow come up earlier than usual, I paced the beach, it was the only way to keep the blood suckers off me! Lucky I had my tripod. I took these shots. Best thing is we survived. Don't wanna know what kind of tropical disease I might have now from those bugs. It was all worth it again.

I've never been so glad to see the sun!

Puerto Rico Continued...

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Alot of these images were taken on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico called Culebra Island. For those that don't know, culebra is spanish for the one creature that I can't stand! SNAKE!! Yeah, we decided to go spend a couple days camping on the beach and roughin it on an island, which by the way, lives up to its name. We saw plenty of them. There is also a night shot taken from a view of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Long story short, we didn't know when you make a contract through travel sights that if you get off the plane before the final flight is made, you void the rest of the flights, paid for or not. We wanted to get to Puerto Rico and there was a flight that stopped in Puerto Rico but continued to St. Thomas, so we thought we'll just get off one stop early. Nope, didn't happen. We had to complete the whole chain of flights to keep our contract and keep the rest of our flights. So we got to see St. Thomas for the night. Not too bad, totally unexpected though. Taken in 2007 here are some images of the beautiful Caribbean islands.

Right after I took this shot, Heath almost stepped on a snake in the bushes!! I've never seen him jump so high! His head seriously almost hit the branches above him!

Panoramic Project 10 ft. Print!

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Here's the image that will be printed in 5 sections at 24" X 18", which overall will be around 10ft long!! This is the largest image I have printed and hope it goes well. It sure did cost me! It is worth it though. I chose this image because it reminds me of a place, in my life, where time stops, where worry is calmed, where memories heal, and where I regain my strength. There's more to be said about Mother Nature than simple words. I hope to have captured some of that in this image. Some may see it as another landscape, look deeper. There's more to it than you may think.

Monday, April 27, 2009 New Project Book Publish

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Wow this was an exhausting project for alot of reasons. First when you have over 100 images to compile in one book, it takes exhausting effort to think through the order of presentation not to mention the hours of editing involved. I learned also that I'm getting the hang of batch processing in Photoshop but I'm still not perfect at it. I batch processed all 100 pages in the wrong way at first so I had to go back one by one and fix them individually. Basically, to make this nasty story make sense, it had me up all night fixing the problems and uploading the images one by one with an average time of 5 minutes per upload! I was up till 10:45 AM!! I slept for an hour before finishing other things and heading off to class. Dang I'm tired of late nights. I hope people see these images as worth the effort because they really took alot of effort and determination to finish.

Monday, April 27, 2009 Puerto Rico

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I've been extremely busy this week with final projects and all, between printing this, and editing that, and publishing this, man it's been tough. Last night I stayed up all night finishing a book dedicated to some work I did this semester. I will post some of it in my new post for this week. As for the old post, this is part of our trip to Puerto Rico including some of Culebra Island and St. Thomas Island as well.

Monday, April 20, 2009, New Easter Kids Cont...

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Here are more of the pics from Easter and all of the fun. I was having an off day and wasn't too excited about the timing of my images. Every time I saw a great image through the lens, by the time I'd have complete focus and push the shutter button, the kids would have already moved which, most photographers will agree, is the most frustrating part about taking pics of kids. Anyhow, I stuck with it and got a couple that I'm still proud of. Thanks Amber and Ray for bringing the kids over and having another great Easter together! Here they are!

Monday, April 20, 2009, Old Costa Rica, Arenal Volcano, Tabacon Hot-Springs, and Puerto Viejo cont...

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I decided to split this post in 2 because there's alot of images. Here's the second half. Also, Tabacon hot-springs is listed as the number 2 most romantic place in the world, rated by MSN.com. The article wasn't lying. It was definitely good scouting for a potential honey-moon location! So far this one tops the list!

and YES we did see Bob Marley...

Monday, April 13, 2009 New Easter Kids

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Easter Sunday was and always has been a special day spent with my Family, the most important people in the world. I am grateful for the special feel of this day and the special appreciation for what happened long long time ago and I'm not talking about the Easter Bunny. Hope you enjoy!

Monday, April 13, 2009 Old Costa Rica Arenal Volcano, Tabacon Hot-Springs, Puerto Viejo

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Alright here's some more pics of the trip to Central America. You may be wondering, holy cow how many pics did he take down there. Well, we were there for around 3 weeks and I took a good 6000 so there's plenty to share! Hope you enjoy!

April 6, 2009 Nieces and Nephews

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Alright this is a shoot I did with my Sisters and all of the Nieces and Nephews. These are more for fun than anything. Thanks Amber and Chayla for helping me arrange this! There's no way I could handle them all without you.

April 6, 2009 Mexico

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This is the actual very first time taking my camera with my Tamron lens and using it with filters. I can see, through these pictures, how my eye has changed and how I have developed strengths in different areas. These aren't the typical drinking pics you'd expect from Mexico, especially in Rocky Point. Instead I focused on the beauty of it and some funny differences from life in the US.

March 30, 2009 New Camping Continued

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I decided to pick a few of the riding pics and show the mess we got in. Oh, and I have to say, we promised not to scratch our Dad's quad, (which is the green, big one) yeah can't say we kept that one.

Snow in the eyes...

Dang that was close!

March 30, 2009 Old Costa Rica Baby!!!

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Here are some of the pics from Costa Rica! I fell in love with this country and hope to return soon. I wish I could live there for part of the year at least, that would be the most I could ask for. The beauty speaks for itself. Here it is!!

March 23, 2009 New

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I went camping with my Brothers again and this is some of the adventure:

March 23, 2009 Image resize test

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Ok I'm going to fix the size issue I've been having, (many of the images are too big to see without scrolling). Here's the first.

March 23, 2009 Old

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Here are some more pics of Roatan island off the northern coast of Honduras. It's by far the most beautiful and friendly island undiscovered by most. I say that because most of the week, the only tourists that show up come from the cruise lines that make their stop for the day. Both times I've been there we pretty much had the whole island to ourselves! Here's more:

March 16, 2009 New

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Alright, here's the current pics up to date. Some of these are just random things that happened to me like the tire blow-out, and the others are scenic pictures taken down by Safford, Arizona.

March 16, 2009

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Here's the post of some of the images I took in Roatan Island Honduras during the first big trip with my camera! I am totally excited because these are some of the first attempt at a beach. When people think exotic, most picture a nice exotic beach with a warm sunset and a cutie by their side. I think I did pretty good minus the cutie ha ha! Here they are!

March 9, 2009 New

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This is the second part of the images of my new nephew Carter! Here they are!

March 9, 2009 Old

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Today I'm finishing up the last of the Guatemala pics and am hoping to start the Honduras part next week. Here they are:

March 2, 2009 Old

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March 2, 2009 New Baby Carter!!

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My Sis Amber gave birth to my 2nd Nephew Carter! Here are some of the pics!

February 23, 2009 Old

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Here are some more Guate Pics!!

February 23, 2009 New

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More pics from The NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND!!!!

February 16, 2009 New Pics

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Alright I went with some friends on the new Light Rail to downtown Phoenix Saturday night. Of course it was Valentine's day evening without the Ladies this year so we went to the NBA All-Star Block Party instead. There was lots to see including some players: Payton Maning and Chris Weber.

February 16, 2009 Old Pics

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Today is another Guatemala day. Here they are. By the way, these were taken in the summer of 2006.

February 9. 2009 Old Pics

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Alright there's way too many images from my first trip that I am very proud of so I'm going to continue to post them here. Here is some more pics of Guatemala!!

February 9. 2009 New Pics

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I decided to continue part of the trip I was on with my brothers. There were too many good pics to show too much fun! This trip was taken in the last week of January 2009.

Quadding February 2, 2009

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Here are the images taken recently. These images were just for fun taken with my brothers. We were quading through the desert and ran across these sights.

The Beginning of the Expressions

2009-02-02T12:15:00.000-08:00

Today I decided to incorporate more of my love for photography as a weekly effort to display the world as I see it. I have committed to displaying a total of 20 new images a week, 10 old, and 10 new, in order to better show the areas I have been exploring and hopefully improving. Here are the first ten.

These pictures were some of the first pictures I took with a digital SLR. I spent 3 weeks between Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica practicing and learning the different controls of the camera. This is what I got. These are 10 of about 600 top pictures. The pictures are taken in Tikal Guatemala and are in no particular order.

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I decided this blog needs some changes. Here's the first. I decided to add a basic logo for now to replace the title. This is the GIF image that I created in photoshop:

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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Christmas Work Party and all the fun!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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Alright we're gonna try this again I think I might be close now...hopefully

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

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Let's try this again, I'm trying to get the size of my pics to be just right.

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I learned a little Html it's so confusing! These are the images resized

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Pictures from Friday, October 24th, 2008

Summer Adventures 2008

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