I recently returned to Promontory Park City to photograph a new home built by Upland Development (Ryan and Jesica Taylor) and architecturally designed by Bridgwater Consulting Group (Clive Bridgwater). My hope was I would get to hear the elk bugling one more time this fall, and I wasn’t disappointed....
We’re all starting to timidly venture out a little more, tentatively, watching to see if the world is COVID-safe. Sometimes I see myself like a rabbit, ready to return to the burrow at the least sign of danger. Featured today is a brand-new store, Dressed, a unique shopping experience...
More and more I am meeting people who have had full and interesting lives who are finding an ideal lifestyle in Utah. The homeowner who recently completed a custom home in the Park Meadows area of Park City designed by Upwall Design and built by Midway Construction fits this...
With the fires on the West Coast and the hurricane-force winds in Utah this week, we are all paying more attention to the natural environment. A highlight of my week was nature in another expression. While photographing this home in Promontory, I found myself 10 feet away from bugling...
Despite the recent drops in nighttime temperatures in the Wasatch Back that threaten to take out our tomatoes and basil and the orange leaves on the northern slopes of the Wasatch, I maintain that summer is not over! I’m a self-admitted lover of warm weather and summers. With COVID,...
Last week took me to the University of Utah for the return of students to classes and the opening of Kahlert Village, a new residential complex conveniently located near the heart of the campus adjacent to the Huntsman Center. Parents and nervous new students unloaded their belongings and found...
One of the interesting things about having lived some years over what qualifies as youth is seeing things concurrently in the present and in the past. I spent twenty years of my youth living in Park City as it transitioned from a mining town to a ski town, and...
Familiar faces to Salt Lake architecture Trent Smith and Steven Walters recently formed Modern Out West Architecture & Design, and the firm just completed a dynamic office space for FileVine, a software system for attorneys. The location is a former Sugarhouse commercial space previously occupied by Toys R Us,...
I’m continually struck by the number of businesses out there that offer interesting and challenging jobs that I, for one, never knew were possible career paths. This theme struck again when I photographed the Bryan S. Finkle Building in South Jordan. The principle tenant is SMRTL, Sports Medicine Research...
Architectural photographer Scot Zimmerman has been a part of our Utah Style & Design team for a long time—you might recognize him from the popular Photo Friday series on our blog. In this interview, USD talked with Scot about his why he thinks architectural photography is the world's best...