Don's Photos

These Roman figures by Saint-Gaudens stand watch over Union Station in Washington, D.C. The shields were added after some complained about nudity.

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The Salt Lake Tabernacle, as seen from the west steps of the Salt Lake Temple.

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This doorknob on the Salt Lake Temple shows the attention to detail the pioneer craftsmen put into the temple.

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In October 2000, I covered the gubernatorial debate at Utah Valley State College, where independent candidate Jeremy Friedbaum (standing at podium) had just broken a multi-week hunger strike for media attention.

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A glorious sunset as seen from Rock Canyon Park, Provo.

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An old laundry service's advertisement in Murray, Utah.

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My best friend Roger and I went to the LDS Church's Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York. Here, we're standing at the corner of Main and Canadaigua Streets, the only intersection in the country where there's a church on each corner.

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This hangar at Wendover AIrport once housed the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The 509th Composite Group was based at Wendover Field and trained above the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Wendover's airport is where parts of "Independence Day" and "Con AIr" were filmed.

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This memorial in West Wendover, Nev., commemorates the 509th Composite Group, the Army Air Corps Unit that dropped atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. The plane depicted is the Enola Gay. The 509th was based at Wendover Field in Wendover, Utah.

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This oversized cowboy greets visitors to West Wendover, Nev.

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Once known as the Hotel Utah, the Joseph Smith Memorial Building houses a chapel, church offices, a theater and a couple restaurants.

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This statue of Brigham Young, on the Main Street Plaza, is part of a monument commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Mormon Pioneers' arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. The statue was also displayed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in the 1890s.

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The Salt Lake Temple in the early evening.

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With more than 11,000 pipes, the Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ is the largest in the church, as well as one of the finest — and most famous — musical instruments in the world. The seats around it are where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform, as well as record many of their albums.

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This monument commemorates how God spared the lives of the Mormon Pioneers by sending seagulls to eat the crickets that threatened their crops.

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Even an overcast March day can't take away from the beauty of the Salt Lake Temple.

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The cupola on the roof of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City.

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Chestnut Hill Cemetery, East Brunswick, N.J., circa 1983. From another college photo project

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