The single most influential element outside of other people’s photography in my own work has been seeing the mountain bike movie “The Collective” by, The Collective back in the summer of 2004. A co-worker, Kendall Card who was the guy that was keying me into what was cool within skiing at the time was putting on the premiere of the film so I went by to go check it out. My mind was blown and after I got a copy of the DVD, watched it over and over and over again. The way the movie was filmed, put together, it was very different from what I had seen in other action sports films at the time. It had given me a completely different perspective into the way I look at shooting my own realm of skiing.
The second round of that same influence and inspiration has begun for me and FINALLY, the teaser for Life Cycles is live. Back in April, I got to see one of the rough cuts of this teaser at The Gathering (very different than the current one BTW) and my mind was blown again and then, my creative juices were flowing. It’s very different, very creative, and for me, very inspiring. It just oozes creativity. I can’t wait to see the film and I hope you feel the same after checking out the teaser. Enjoy, and go pre-order your copy on their website.
The Bonneville Salt Flats is a place I’ve been to a few times, however never while any racing was going on. It was quite the scene, very different from any auto race I’ve been to in the past, no frills, just insanely fast cars, as many RV’s as you’d see at Burning Man, vintage cars, vintage people, and…rednecks, lots and lots of rednecks.
Another first for me, I’ve never shot photos of or seen a road bike time trials before. I also have never seen this out on a road course for auto racing. Yesterday was a really cool experience, I got to walk around the race track at Miller Motorsports Park. It’s usually something you don’t get to do, the track is usually buzzing with race cars and motorcycles going 100+ miles an hour, the track is usually on lockdown. As the most of the track was shut down for the general public due to the use of the perimeter road I decided to go out to help my friend Re Wikstrom run strobes while she was covering the event. Since she didn’t really need them till the end of the race when the light got low, I got to shoot quite a bit. It’s quite the different scene at the Tour of Utah Time Trial with such different gear, the crazy helmets, wheels, etc. It’s very different visually and I’m glad I went.
Cycling isn’t exactly something I usually pay attention to, or shoot for that matter. However, this summer has been one of shooting photos of things, sports, events that are new to me, or at least that I don’t usually cover professionally. I headed up to the Mt. Nebo Summit today to shoot the second stage of the Tour of Utah cycling race. Today’s stage was a pretty brutal climb of over 4,500 feet from Thanksgiving Point to Mt. Nebo Summit. As I usually light 75% of my ski photos, I figure why not give it a go with this? The clouds in the background were pretty dark and gloomy looking so this pretty well setup perfect for how I usually shoot cloudy day ski shots.
This photo, shot about 2 years ago in October of 2008 is one I simply forgot about until recently. It wasn’t until recently that I met a local automotive photographer, Orlando Echeverria and reminded me about composites and how I could make this shot work better than when I shot it. I had some issues with my flashes working on this shoot so the lighting wasn’t as even as I was hoping for. Today, I opened it up, and did some work in photoshop to bring it closer to what I had in mind originally. I’m pretty stoked to get out and shoot a bit more, things such as this. Look for more to come.
As I said, the most rediculous contest I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a lot of really dumb shit happen live!
Check out some footage from the Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling 2009.
Enjoy
The crew at Saga Outerwear wanted to test the waterproofing of the new Anomie suit for the 2010/2011 season for their new look book, so where else could we go in the summer except a car wash! Saga had me come out to shoot a few entertaining photos of the highly un-scientific waterproofing test. Tim Durtschi was in town, so he became the unlucky guinea pig. Austin of course could barely contain himself with excitement with the thought of flogging Tim with the high pressure power washer.
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