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PhotowalkingUtah at the Great Salt Lake (photo by calanan)

Metrics on PhotowalkingUtah outing #10: 40 photographers, 2 dresses, Heidi in the water for 2 hours, 293 images in our Flickr pool, 10 billion brine shrimp, and at least $1,000 in waterlogged gear.

Behind the scenes (photo by jeremyhall)

The Great Salt Lake, 60 miles long, 30 miles wide, far saltier than the ocean, produces brine shrimp (sea monkeys) and brine flies in abundance. Birds stop to refuel on the beasties during migration. Morton Salt has evaporation ponds. A few people sail and scull. But mostly, beyond the water’s edge, it is expansively serene.

Rich keeps camera dry, but soaks the Blackberry in his pocket (photo by PureLancelot)

Forty photographers make a certain amount of noise, but occasionally on a photowalk, it becomes disconcertingly quiet. Deep concentration of photowalkers leave room for no conversation, only the clicking of shutters.

Charles Uibel, our guide (photo by rustlingleafdesign)

Charles photographs out here all the time, and set us up in a location devoid of other photo sessions (the GSL is popular for bridal photos - we saw a shoot going on down the shore but otherwise we were alone).

That dress is officially trashed (photo by schwabacher)

Heidi, our model, got the dress from her sister, made by mom and grandmom. Best not to mention it to mom until it comes back from the dry cleaner.

Thoroughly wrapped-up on several blogs:
Mike Calanan - Calanan Photography
Jeremy Hall - What’s Gotta Stay
Rich Legg - LeggNet’s Digital Capture
Scott Smith - Scott [o] Smith’s Digital World
David Terry - David Terry Photography
Ann Torrence - the Annalog

The next PhotowalkingUtah outing will be on July 4, to the Freedom Festival Balloon Launch. It’s a dawn launch for participating photographers. Watch www.photowalkingutah.com for updates.

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