Every year, Rick Cummings hosts an art show for students of his Body Form Workshop Series. I took the class a couple years ago, but never took place in the show. I decided to rework a few of the images and participate. I previously posted blog entries on the class. You can view them here:...
Summer is heating up and I’m getting lots of requests for all kinds of photography. I was contacted my by old friend Ellen Hall to capture some yoga portraits of Amy Ippoliti for the Sunwarrior advertising campaign. Amy told me that Sunwarrior makes some of the best, vegan friendly, protein powder supplements available, so I’ll...
You know life is good when your daily job assignment is to hit the Boulder trails with a cute dog and an even cuter girl for a photo shoot. Even after pinching myself, I still found that I’d been contracted to shoot the cover for Colorado outdoor sports and lifestyle magazine Elevation Outdoors. EO is...
As I drove further into Texas, the weather took a turn for the worse. My visit to Austin was a total monsoon washout! So no photos from that part of the journey. The next stop was San Antonio, for the 2011 Digital Wedding Forum Convention and the Professional Photographers of America annual trade show Imaging...
The historic buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans are photographically inspiring. I would have loved to have had a model to do a photo shoot with. I didn’t, so I decided to undertake the challenge of shooting myself! I used a tripod, a remote shutter trigger, and an off camera speedlight to try...
After yesterday’s philosophic, artistic, and thoughtful post, we return to our regularly scheduled randomness! I was hanging around the house, when I decided to play with the stroboscopic mode on my Nikon SB-900 flash. It’s always a function that I’ve been meaning to play with . . . you know, procrastinating, procrastinating, someday I will...
Life is like learning to ride a wheelie. There are many things in life that we wish that we could do, or that we could do better. I’ve always wanted to learn to ride a wheelie, ever since I was a little BMX punk in the 80s. Why didn’t I know how? Simple. I never...
I finally got motivated to pull out the camera gear today, which is a big departure from my last couple posts taken with my phone! I bought some Alien Bee studio strobes and a Vagabond battery for use on location shoots. I brought the gear out in the backyard for some preliminary testing to familiarize...
A large chunk of the crew recently moved into a big house out in East Boulder. At the housewarming party my friends at Green Guru brought out a big stash of their vinyl supply to make a giant slip and slide! I lent my photo skills to capture some of the water sprayin’ body flingin’...
Here we are with my final Telluride post. I’m going to have to find some local fun to keep this blog going over the next month! River and I took a little drive out of town to the micro-town of Ophir. I was quite excited to find some trashed out buildings to play in. The...
There is a really cool narrow alley in Telluride. I thought it would be cool to take someones picture in it. Here is that person. Self portraits at f/2.8 with a manual focus lens are really hard!
Driving along the barren interstate at sunset, we were struck by the beauty of the rolling crop fields in central Washington. The sun was setting, and we were reflecting on a spontaneous journey gone by. It seemed like the perfect setting to take some new Facebook profile pics! That’s all for Chapter 5. You can...
We watched the sun set from the Paradise area of Mt. Rainier National Park. Apparently Paradise is the snowiest place on Earth, of the places that regularly measure that sort of thing. That’s cool. The light on the mountain at that time of day was pretty washed out, which is less than cool. So to...
We continued our journey north out of Seattle. I was sneaking my way around the coast, looking for a spot to enjoy the water. I noticed this cool old fishery on Puget Sound, and knew that this was the spot. This area was populated with some really sweet homes. They looked great on this sunny...
OK, I really need to post some shots from my trip down to the Great Sand Dunes that now seems like about forever ago! First picture of me taken by Melissa Welsh. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Boulder County needs more burned down derelict buildings so that I can have more...
After leaving the Railroad Pass Casino, we headed out to Nelson, Nevada for a model shoot. The “ghost ranch” as they call it is kindof a tourist trap. There are many old buildings with junk all around like trashed 50s cars and planes and stuff. When we got there it was like a photographer’s convention...
Here is another outtake from a portrait shoot. I was wrapping up an engagement shoot at Boulder’s Red Rocks Park, when this random guy flashed me a peace sign. I really like how the composition turned out.
I spend some time the last two weekends up in Estes Park. My friend Io lives there so I stopped by. She has a porch. And a dog named Amber. I have an 85mm Perspective Control Lens. And a photography problem. This is what happened.
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