Utah.is.Amazing.

Some days I wish I lived in Utah (then I remember that much of the State is dry and most restos and stores are not open past 10p!). It is full of such beauty, and hard to imagine living within monumental beauty such as Utah when I have spent most of my years in dear Kansas. My friend Erin traveled with me to Utah to help with the wedding I shot there in April. We had about a day and a half to visit the Salt Lake and Sun Dance. Incredible weather helped us enjoy the scenery throughout SLC to Provo to Mapleton to American Fork and Sun Dance. I look forward to visiting Utah again very soon. Here are just a few images of the beauty we beheld;

Do you see the heart rock here? If not, do not fear- I see it for you

and we are at the Salt Lake here, so I suspect this is some form of salt…

there were so many bird skeletons strewn along the receded shoreline of the Lake, it made me sad to see these birds here consuming this overly salt saturated water

these beautiful trees grew on many of the trees at the Mount Timpanogos Temple

E & me before the wedding!

National Park (I forget which one, there are like 100 in Utah ;))

Gorgeous, Aspens.

*heart*

Clever hikers.

I’ll post Sun Dance in a couple of days. It was perfectly serene and exactly what we needed.

On a different note, I got an email from a photographer friend, Alea, today. Her boyfriend Piotr has been in a London hospital for I believe a couple of weeks now. They discovered that he has an aneurysm underneath his brain membrane. His incredibly invasive and delicate surgery has been scheduled and bumped. Alea had to return to London to be by his side for the surgery. Since the surgery has been bumped again she will not be in town for a wedding she was scheduled to shoot on July 3rd. So I will be shooting her wedding for her and offering my healing energy and prayers up for she and Piotr and Piotr’s doctors. I ask you to do the same. They need everything they can get at this fragile time in their lives.

Have a blessed Thursday

x,Jessica.