Krishna - Festival of Colors

Saturday the local Krishna Temple put on their yearly Festival of Colors. I went last year and had a great time and I made sure that I went again this year. Last year there were an estimated 3,000 and this year a big whoopin 10,000 showed up. Amy and I could hardly believe the traffic as we got off the freeway. People were parked up to two miles away from the temple. They sold about four times amount of colors than they did last year (almost 20,000 bags). The festival is their way of saying goodbye winter and welcoming spring.

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The temple was off grounds for colors to be thrown, which made a good place to take pictures safely and stay clean.

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From my view point, on top of the temple, the colors were beautiful.

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I saw these guys with the gas masks before the colors were thrown and I thought it was a little funny looking, but I can differently see that they were probably the few guys that were spared their clothes being ruined.

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Here is the video that I made from last year's Festival of Colors. If you take a look in the crowd and compare them to the pictures I took this year you'll see the difference in size of the event.



I had a really enjoyable time this year. I graduate in April, so I think this may be my last Festival of Colors, because I'm not sure that I'll have another opportunity somewhere else. Hopefully I'll make a trip over to India and be able to compare the festival to how they do it.

Jon Peter Lewis Concert

Jon Peter Lewis, former American Idol contestant, stopped in Provo while on tour promoting his new album Break the Silence. I had met him the day before at the UVU Baseball game just before he sang the National Anthem. He is a real down to earth guy and I enjoyed meeting him. His manager contacted me to take some pictures of his concert so here are some pictures from last night.

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Opening the show for the night was Katie Brandeburg, playing the guitar while singing.

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The following act was The Nadas (IOWA) which continued to raise the intensity of the night and get the crowd involved.

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Playing in front of friends and family Jon Peter Lewis put on a good show along with his band members.

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He brought up family members to the stage to help him out with some of the songs, and dancing. For more information about his band you can check him out at his website, JonPeterLewis.com.

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Following Jon was Donnie Bonelli & The Kites which were also fun to watch and listen to.

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All in all, I feel that I was able to get some good pictures and have a good time. Amy and I both enjoyed Jon's music as well as the other bands.

Softball and Baseball

Tuesday I photographed two softball games and a baseball game. It was a full day, but fun nonetheless.

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The softball team took on the Utah State Aggies and struggled to hold them over.

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We seemed to always be once step behind.

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Opening the baseball game by singing the National Anthem was former American Idol contestant Jon Peter Lewis.

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We took an early lead of 4-1, but weren't able to hold the Utah Utes back.

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By the end of the game we went through 5 pitchers, I'm not sure how many pitchers our team has, but we had to have gone through all of them.

Easter Fun

Amy and I had some easter fun and dyed some eggs. We posted a blog together on our blog, The Hoglunds. I had some pictures left over so I thought I'd share them with you all.

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One of the eggs broke while we boiled them ... maybe it was already broken, I'm not really sure, but we had fun decorating it anyways.

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I hope that you enjoyed easter this time around. Leave me a message and let me know what you did.

Engagements: Josh and Nichole

Yesterday I went and took some engagement pictures for an old roommate of mine. He's getting married in June and it was fun to see him and his fiancee and their shared excitement for each other.

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Let me know what you think.