Eureka: The Road Trip - The Mining Town // Utah Fashion Portrait Photographer
4:10 AM: Too excited to sleep. Here's the thing about traveling with models. I'm a photographer, which means everywhere I go my artistic medium is always on my mind, like how objects and people and faces and the mood of an entire environment can be transformed by angles and light and shadow. And if you're a fashion or portrait photographer like me, there are moments when exploring those environments when we wish we had a model with us. With wardrobe. And makeup. And time. Yet somehow, even after all this time photographing people, I've never taken that notion seriously. Until now. This post is the first of three about our day trip this past summer to the Old Tintic Mining Town in Eureka, UT and Little Sahara Sand Dunes (also in Utah). PART ONE: Tintic Mining Town PART TWO: Little Sahara Sand Dunes PART THREE: Behind the Scenes 9:15 AM: On the road Eureka, UT is also known as the "Old Tintic Mining Town". It has an estimated population of ...