Bonneville Speedway

Last weekend my mission buddy Luke Isley and I went out on another photo adventure! We went out to western Utah to the Bonneville Salt Flats and Speedway. Not only is this a mecca for speed records to be made, but its a great place to shoot photographs as well. And if any of you have seen the new Pirates movie, when Jack Sparrow is introduced into the movie, the scene was shot out there on the flats!! Anyhow, it was a lot of fun, and we stayed out there about four hours so we could be there for sunset. Here is some stuff I came home with!

Lukester and I on the Speedway!

This one's for the ladies!!!

This is where the speedway starts. The straigtaway drag strip is 10 miles in length. The current speed record for this track is 630.389 mph in a rocket powered car!!!

Here is a photo of the surface of the Salt Flats at sunset. I was facing north. It looks like it would be extremely dry and hard, but it is actually fairly soft underneath your feet, and when I laid down to take this shot, I found out it was pretty darn wet too!!

It was pretty fun to see the moon start creeping out. It was kinda cool to see the moon come through the clouds, and the colors left over from sunset. This is facing South.

And finally, the stars came out and I took this last shot before we packed up and went home. This was a 3 minute exposure! Good times!

Bye Bye BMW!!

I definitely think its time for an update! A few weeks ago I said goodbye to a very fun and favorite toy I had been borrowing from my dad!


I had planned on leaving my house about 3:30 in hopes to miss the worst of the SLC traffic. I ended up getting roped into helping my boss and didn't end up leaving Orem until about 5pm. It was a friday night, so you can only imagine what traffic was like!! YUK!! Worst part is, that put me in gridlocked traffic from north salt lake to Ogden...my least favorite stretch of I-15 for several reasons!! Once North of Ogden I was able to kick it up to about 80mph and kept it there for the rest of the trip. The sunset was beautiful, and I made it to Boise safe and sound at about 11pm. I met dad at the airport the next morning and had breakfast with him and flew home. His return trip was not so enjoyable....but for the sake of stirring the pile with mom, I think i'll leave it at that! (email richard.oram@grange.com for details!!)





For those of you who have not experienced a sunset on a motorcycle on a 85 degree night, I tried to capture what is so great about it!! Kinda crummy pics, but I think you get the picture!!