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I’ve been trying to be better about doing something other than work lately. But when I do, I still bring my camera. Does this mean that I’m not really getting away from work?
I actually went on a hike the other day. Probably the first one this year! It was a quick little one, leaving from...
While taking a food break on my last Boulder mountain bike ride, I noticed the unique wood texture on the trees. The bark is peeling off and looks like puzzle pieces.
We set out for our first Durango ride of the weekend to the Junction Creek Trailhead. The first thing we noticed was multiple truckloads of kids shuttling from the parking area. There must have been some sort of DH trail right in the area that isn’t on the riding maps. We set out to do...
On the second day, the sun came out and we were able to go play in the yard. Grammy’s house is a cabin in the woods. So we headed out to take some family pics for the photo album. Things started out a little slowly at first. Travis wasn’t super exited for the posed shot...
I’m always following the weather during the winter, tracking the big storms that yield glorious dumps of fluffy powder. I wasn’t able to get away too much this year, just too much business stuff combined with a pretty dry winter. Well the storms finally showed up in late March and early April, and I was...
I finally was able to break away from the photo biz for a midweek powder day at Abasin. I wanted to make sure and punish myself for my lack of exercise routine this winter so I decided to telemark ski. It was my first real tele day since February 1, 2007. Yes, I’m already sore.
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After a full day of beautiful weather and VeloSwapping on Saturday, I figured I had to get back up to Ned for a mountain bike ride before it’s too late. Well it wasn’t nearly as warm as I had hoped; the high was 50 and the wind was brisk. All the leaves are long gone,...
Winter. You know it always snows by Halloween right?
It has been an extraordinary week. I thank those who have appreciated and commented on my recent post. I want to keep things moving forward . . .
This is my first image that I’ve ever shot with a Nikon lens! I’m going to give Nikon a shot since I have been unhappy...
I originally posted these pictures as part of a pictorial blog post, without many words. Originally I felt that each picture told a thousand words, as they say, so I let the pictures do the talking. Since Tuesday, the story of these pictures has evolved, so I have included them again in a new post....
My staunch work ethic finally crumbled this week. People who know me wondered, “how long can you keep this up?” I kept it up until Thursday. Glorious Thursday, when editing be damned, I had to get out onto the trails and out in the glorious fall weather. I knew the leaves...
As promised, I’m digging out some unedited content from the archives. Back by popular demand, pictures of girls. Hopefully soon to be followed by pictures of bikes. It sure is nice outside. I have 2 distinctly different flavors of photos, so I’ll break them into two different posts. Which do you get first? Arty and...
While most of you were enjoying a three day weekend, I was working my butt off and shooting two weddings! Lucky for me I like shooting weddings . . . ;>) . . . and even luckier still the second one was up in Keystone. So I splurged on a resort hotel room for myself...
Eight million people have published shots of the Flatirons as viewed from Chautauqua Park in Boulder. Now there are eight million and one. I tried to make mine a little interesting in Photoshop. Oh, and I officially now know how to spell Chautauqua without looking it up.
I brought an SB-26 and some Pocket Wizards on this Sunday’s mountain bike ride. My little Canon G9 has a hot shoe so that you can use big boy flashes on it. I strapped it to a tree to try and get some action shots in the deep dark woods. Unfortunately most of...
I headed out on a pretty big ride this Sunday. It wasn’t actually *in* the Indian Peaks Wilderness, because that of course would be illegal, and we all know that that would never happen. These shots were just above Yankee Doodle Lake, with a nice view of the peaks in the background.
My goal is to go mountain biking twice a week. I’ve been failing! I can’t complain too much because the photo biz is keeping me super busy midweek. So I’m a Sunday rider and this week we traveled down to Buffalo Creek for some classic Colorado buff singletrack.
Some of the terrain in the...
I set out for the 10:10 bus last Sunday, an ordinary Sunday, not all that different than the Sunday before. Well slightly different in that I didn’t have a set crew to ride with. I figured I’d see someone I knew. Sure enough Walt was there again with the Waltworks crew, plus...
I needed to do some testing of my 28mm 1.8 lens so I took some pictures out at the park by my house. They weren’t very exciting, so I tweaked them out in Adobe Camera Raw. The Buddha was there.
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