Chen's World Blog

Last night, the temperature dropped significantly here, Salt Lake Valley. The result, snow! It was the first snow of the fall in Salt Lake City, and more importantly, it was my first time to see snow. Seeing the snow was amazing, but the experience was really cold! My editors knew that I have not seen [...]

My last assignment of the day was to take some pictures of LDS mothers and wives dance at a church. I was like: what could be more boring than that. When I got there and start taking photos of them dancing, I realized that they were really good and I really enjoy watching it. In [...]

This event happened last week. President of Sutherland Institute Paul Mero spoke about why we protect marriage and family in the law during a pro-family rally at Provo Tabernacle. Interestingly, the editor of the Deseret News Joe Cannon also spoke at the event. Joe Cannon is the boss of the Deseret News, which means he’s [...]

This was a very interesting event, not because of the content of the event itself, but what was happening around the event at the park that time. In fact the event itself was no more than seeing people crying at a memorial. However, at the same time, 50 feet away from the memorial, there was [...]

Here is one photo got published yesterday. I got the assignment to take random photos at Hogle Zoo. I thought it would be an easy job because there were a lot of kids, but in fact, it was not that easy. When I got there, I was very tired for some reason and couldn’t find [...]

Mary Beth and I spent this weekend at the Yellowstone National Park, but really, I only visit the park for one day. Of course, there’s no way we could see the entire park because it takes about an hour to get from one attraction area to another. However, we did see the Old Faithful Geyser [...]

Here are some photos I took at the BMX Park competition during the 2009 Dew Tour in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was amazing seeing the bikers doing the tricks in real life. I have only seen the competition on TV, and it seemed so far away. But when I was at the Dew Tour, [...]

Today Mary Beth and I went to visit  Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake. It is an unique and beautiful island. It seems that this is the place where the water and sky connect. Here are some photos I took while we were at the park.

Kaysville motocross bicycle legend Tim “Fuzzy” Hall, or just Fuzzy Hall, is building a track for the BMX Dew Tour in Salt Lake City. The Dew Tour starts on Thursday, Sept. 17th, and ends on this Sunday, the 20th. You can go to the Dew Tour Web site and check it out. Fuzzy was cool [...]

Here is my first color photo published in the Deseret News. It feels great! Things are going well for me. People at the paper here are really nice and helpful. You can go here to check out more photos I took on this story.