Archive for the 'Personal work' Category

Portraits of my brother

31May08

I have been wanting to take a photo of my brother Stan in his SWAT tactical gear for a while but he was recently promoted to Sargent and has now back in a patrol car for his regular job as a normal part of the King Country Sherrif’s office. This change set set back when we could do the shoot. Now Stan is about ready to go back on to active duty with the National Guard in preparation to be re-deployed to Iraq with the US Army later this Summer. Now with him having all of his military gear it was a good time to finally get these shots . I have had a few shots pictured in my head for how i wanted to do these for quite a while now. I’m really glad I was able to get these in before he ships out to Iraq. Here’s a couple of shots from the shoot.

Bobofest - Ski BASE jump event at the Silver Legacy Casino Hotel

18Nov07

Here’s a quickie post with a couple of photos. I’ll have a bunch more up when I get back home to SLC on Sunday night. It was one hell of a day with a overly poppy jump, and a shitload of swirling winds and Jesse had a really close call.

Shane McConkey laying out the lawn dart on the first jump of the dayShane’s skis blasting off his boots.  Fortunately the area was clear and they only hit pavement.Jesse Hall coming in for landing on his first jumpJesse Hall going for the double back

Ski BASE jumping off a hotel, when it’s actually legal!

17Nov07

So as a part of a fundraiser event for the Make a wish foundation Shane McConkey, JT Holmes, Jesse Hall and Miles Dasher are doing a ski BASE jump from the top of the Silver Legacy Hotel Casino in Reno, Nevada. A wooden ramp was built on the top of the hotel for the in-run with some Snow Flex carpet and topped off with 1,000 lbs of shaved ice. They will do 4 jumps each from 1-4pm tomorrow and hopefully it will run late enough for a sunset load. I’ll be shooting from the ground as well as up on the hotel as well. Should be a fun and unique event, I’m looking forward to it.

Pretty normal, walking around with skis in the LZ in 60 degree weather with no snow in sight.JT getting interviewed, the jump in the backgroundThe ramp up top as seen from the groundThe Security escort UP the elevator.The ramp at the top of the hotelJT Holmes counting the flips he’s going to do

More Climbing photos

11Oct07

Genevieve going up the east route on Black MondayPhunk on the West route on Black MondayPhunk on the West route on Black MondaySo I got to go out with my buddy Phunk and his friend genevieve up to Big Cottonwood Canyon at the s-turns to do a route called Black Monday. Phunk told me it has some good views for sunset so thought I’d give it a go. We got up there, I got all setup and boom, there goes the sun! It dropped like a rock right about the time I thought it was going to be right. Oh well I was planning on using my strobes anyways. So I changed the plan a bit and we ended up working pretty late. Got some cool stuff, pretty happy considering it’s the 2nd time I’ve ever really shot climbing before.

Yup, more post processing on old photos!

08Oct07

Keir Dillon blasting a huge corked 5 out of the quarter pipe at Timberline, OregonHere’s one from the Summer I spent at Mt. Hood working for Windell’s in 2004 during the Burton Abominable Snow Jam quarter pipe competition. It was a super fun comp to shoot and I’ve never seen people blast that big out of a QP. Watching Andy Finch blast out of that thing was amazing. Anyways, to continue the post processing kick I’ve been on I decided to give this one a punchy crossed processed look with the clouds, dirt in the foreground and dirty snow on the wall of the quarter pipe. This photo is of Keir Dillon at the High Cascade Snowboard Camp quarterpipe during the Summer of 2004.

Another new take on some old photos

08Oct07

So now I’m digging real deep…going down to 2003 for these! Back in the day when I took a lot more scenics. Anyways I’ve been on a toning kick, doing a lot of toning to a lot of my recent shots so I thought I’d try it on this series of photos I took back in 03′ during the Fall at Guardsman Pass between Park City and Brighton. I always liked a lot of these shots but they just seemed to be missing something, but I think I found out what that was last night. I needed to bring out the texture in these and I think I got it.

Guardsman Pass, UtahGuardsman Pass, UtahGuardsman Pass, UtahFall at Guardsman Pass, UtahGuardsman Pass, UtahFall at Guardsman Pass, Utah

Photo from 2004

06Oct07

Three Tree PointSo I’m going through all my old work right now while I’m picking photos out for my portfolio for the new website I’m working on and found some photos that with a little of work, I’m pretty happy with. I’ve been going through and deleting so much I can’t believe it. The one’s I’ve been keeping I’m finally getting around to putting in all the keywords and everything else so I can track and find them in my library easier. Really I can’t believe how much has changed in my work in 3 years. Anyways I’m on a backlit kick right now and I’m stoked on this one, taken in July of 2004 around Three Tree Point near my parents’ house in Seattle.

OK, now back to deleting gigabytes worth of old photos from 2004. Hopefully I’ll get to 2005 soon!

Climbing shots

01Oct07

Jodi Downard in Big Cottonwood Canyon, UtahFrankie climbing in Big Cottonwood Canyon, UtahIt’s been at least 7 years since I’ve gone out and shot any climbing. A few friends decided to go out climbing and the shoot I had planned got canceled so I was stoked to have something fun to do for the day. The Ohio crew of Ross, Jodi, Frank, Greg went to Big Cottonwood Canyon to go do a few routes that happened to be quite shaded. Perfect, just my style. I ran back home quickly to get my strobes and blasted back up BCC with my strobes and setup. I simply couldn’t put the 45mm TSE lens down. In fact the only time I switched lenses was to put the 2x converter on to get better selective focus. Here’s a few shots I got yesterday. I was stoked to shoot something different than the norm of snow, weddings, portraits and motorsports.