A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ~Robert Baden-Powell
My good friend and neighbor, Darin Furnell, “roped” me into taking photos at the University of Scouting event that was held yesterday up at the LDS Institute building on the University of Utah campus. I’m not much of a Scouter but this was a great event. Darin tells me there were around 600 to 700 people in attendance. I even ran into my sister-in-law, Sylvia.
The highlight of the opening ceremony was an emotional presentation of the U.S. flag that flew over the USS Utah in Pearl Harbor when it was sunk on 7 December 1941. It was fun to be so close to an important piece of history. The remainder of the day the attendees went to classes and workshops on various Scouting-related skills and topics. My two favorites were probably the dutch oven cooking and knot tying classes.
Taking photos was fun and challenging. The fluorescent lighting was pretty poor most of the time. I found myself wanting some nice fast zoom lenses sometimes but it worked pretty well to use my 35 mm and 105 mm prime lenses on two camera bodies. Using two bodies was a lot better than trying to swap lenses out all the time.
One note: I am trying out a new photo gallery viewer in this blog post. Click on any of the images above to see a larger version of the photo.