I love the Sugar Factory Playhouse.  Besides giving local thespians the opportunity to perform in front of an enthusiastic audience, it also provides wholesome family entertainment at an affordable price. If you haven’t heard by now though, the Playhouse is in jeopardy of being permanently shut down.  An untimely building inspection just three days [...]]]>

I love the Sugar Factory Playhouse.  Besides giving local thespians the opportunity to perform in front of an enthusiastic audience, it also provides wholesome family entertainment at an affordable price. If you haven’t heard by now though, the Playhouse is in jeopardy of being permanently shut down.  An untimely building inspection just three days before the opening of See How They Run has, at least for now, closed the building to any occupants.  It is unclear as of this writing whether the show will have to be cancelled.  I have seen firsthand the hours of dedicated community service that has gone into rehearsals and building the set.  I sincerely hope a way can be found to allow the theater team to share all their hard work.

Longer term I fear this could signal the end of local theater in West Jordan.  Whether you believe the closure was for safety or for political reasons, if you want to keep local theater alive in West Jordan, please contact the mayor and city council and let them know how you feel.

I took these photos at sunrise on a Saturday morning.  The temple sits atop a hill on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, so when the sun rises it strikes the front of the temple and gives it a nice warm color.  This was my first experiment with using the [...]]]>

I took these photos at sunrise on a Saturday morning.  The temple sits atop a hill on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, so when the sun rises it strikes the front of the temple and gives it a nice warm color.  This was my first experiment with using the raw camera format.  I had to install an update to Photoshop Elements in order to edit the raw files, but the control it gave me in manipulating the output was fantastic.  It took quite a lot of time to figure out how to do what I wanted, but now I’m hooked.  Using raw will allow me to concentrate more on composition when the photos really count.  Fun stuff!