About Salt Lake City's Temple Square

A Tourist In My Own Town

Winter chills outside, comforting warmth indoors. Century old architecture linking past and present, 66 ft murals that inspire. Paintings depicting pioneer past. Museums and information centers. Life size, and over life size, works of art. Shine.

It's all in and around the 35 acres that are Temple Square in Salt Lake City. A place to visit. So-o much to see and record. No matter the time of the year, it is pristine and beautiful. With its stream of visitors, it is the embodiment of World languages.

I live nearby, making Utah my home. I always leave Temple Square feeling I am not there often enough.

Share my enthusiasm. Put it on your list for soon

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Same city - different viewpoint

I make it a point to always have a camera with me so when I experience something new I am able to record it.

Today, my challenge was to record the Salt Lake Temple and the Utah State Capitol from the one vantage point and to see them both in a new way.

I normally roll around at ground level, so 26 floors up was certainly a change. Glass walls around the observation deck kept out some of the freezing cold but added a reflection problem to my photography. Tiny circles had been provided in a few spots in the glass walls for visitors who would be standing to poke a lens through. In my case I could extend the camera up at arms length, put it out the hole, shoot, and hope for the best.

Certainly this outlook is one of the many things to experience when you are next in Utah. I have it tagged for a re-run in shinier weather.

ps with all the guessing, it helps that I take lots of pics!

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