Erik Seo Photography Blog

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.

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.

Here’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.

So 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!