Stray Light Effect

Photographer Jim Urquhart
Environment

Rainbow

A double rainbow courtesy an afternoon shower  Wednesday, August 6, 2008 near Springville, Utah -- 8/06/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

A double rainbow courtesy an afternoon shower Wednesday, August 6, 2008 near Springville, Utah -- 8/06/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Wilderness Therapy

Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert to Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week.  -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert to Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week. -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert to Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week.  -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert to Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week. -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, bottom,  and Aspiro guide Stephanie Gardner wrestle in the mud at the bottom of Coyote Gulch Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week.  -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, bottom, and Aspiro guide Stephanie Gardner wrestle in the mud at the bottom of Coyote Gulch Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week. -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, left, and Mary Baker, 15, of Washington DC., laugh while resting on a ledge at the bottom of Coyote Gulch Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week.  -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, left, and Mary Baker, 15, of Washington DC., laugh while resting on a ledge at the bottom of Coyote Gulch Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week. -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, left, and Mary Baker, 15, of Washington DC., talk while resting on a ledge at the bottom of Coyote Gulch Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week.  -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, left, and Mary Baker, 15, of Washington DC., talk while resting on a ledge at the bottom of Coyote Gulch Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week. -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert to Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week.  -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert to Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River Thursday, July 31, 2008. Aspiro is an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. The group from Aspiro hiked five miles into Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area where they were to spend about a week. -- 7/31/08 (Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Milford Flat Fire

Cove Fort, UT. Weston Stoddard, 9, helps herd the family cattle away from the Milford Flat Fire in the Mineral Range south of Cove Fort, Utah. The wildfire consumed over 300,000 acres. 7/9/07 Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Cove Fort, UT. Weston Stoddard, 9, helps herd the family cattle away from the Milford Flat Fire in the Mineral Range south of Cove Fort, Utah. The wildfire consumed over 300,000 acres. 7/9/07 Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Snow goggles

brighton skiing 3 JUBrandon Squires of Highland takes in the view at Brighton Ski Resort. Scores turned for the freshly fallen snow depsite the near zero temperatures. 12/7/05 Jim Urquhart/Sat Lake Tribune

Uranium Mining 2

Uranium 7274 JUSoutheastern Utah, UT. Working in total darkness and only headlamps to guide him, Ron Wells drills to extract uranium from the Pandora Mine outside La Sal, Utah. 5/23/07  Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Uranium Mining 1

uranium 7375 JUSoutheastern, UT.  Ron Wells, left and Seth Shumway, center and Jerry Conway use a probe to measure radiation in the ore walls containing uranium in the Pandora Mine outside La Sal, Utah. 5/23/07  Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Alta Torch Light

alta torch light 8705 JUFireworks light up the snowy skies over Alta during the New Year’s Torch Light Parade. Scores of skiiers traversed the slopes with flares as part of the annual tradition. 12/31/05 Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Avalanche Safety

avi class 8614 JUWasatch Powderbird guide Spencer Wheatley guides in a helicopter for a landing atop 10,500 foot Patsy Marley in Little Cottonwood Canyon during Powderbird’s Avalanche Safety Class 12/20/06 Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Lightning Storm

Lightning lights up the night sky north of Bluff, Utah. The light show was accompanied by several other thunderstorms that moved through the area. 7/19/06  Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune

Lightning lights up the night sky north of Bluff, Utah. The light show was accompanied by several other thunderstorms that moved through the area. 7/19/06  Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribunelightening 6660 JU

Monument Valley

monument valley JU 091Monument Valley National Monument. 7/20/06 Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Paragliding Inversion

Mark Santurbane of Salt Lake City launched off 11,000 foot Hidden Peak at Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon in search of clear air above the inversion enveloping the Salt Lake Valley below Saturday morning. He was joined in the paragliding by his friend Dave Mellon (not pictured)of Park City. 1/22/05
Photo by Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

paragliding inversion 2 JUMark Santurbane of Salt Lake City launched off 11,000 foot Hidden Peak at Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon in search of clear air above the inversion enveloping the Salt Lake Valley below Saturday morning. 1/22/05  Photo by Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune

Wild Horses

wild horses 4Wild horses run through a corral at the BLM’s corral in Herriman Thursday. A proposal by a legislator for the state is to take over management of  Utah’s wild horse herds from the BLM. 5/26/05 Jim Urquhart/Salt Lake Tribune