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Mother of all rope swings 2007-05-24 14:18:09 Here’s a crazy shot I just came across while organizing my Web site. I shot a Montana wedding last summer at the Holland Lake Lodge, which is on Holland Lake outside of Missoula. Really cool place, really beautiful setting. The lodge is on a tiny little peninsula jutting out into this serene, gorgeous lake. Check out the portfolio link to see what it was like. Highly highly recommended place to get married.
Anyway, the wedding was one those really fun weekend-long things. During the weekend, everyone discovered the mother of all rope swings. I got a bunch of rad shots of everyone on it, and here’s a shot that someone took of me on it… I know, I was working and playing. Sorry! Don’t tell anyone. I think I was about 35 or 40 feet up in the air.
Spire Banner! 2007-05-24 04:44:45 So I do a lot of outdoor sports and adventure photography when I’m not shooting weddings, and one of my clients is Spire USA, makers of probably the best laptop bags on the planet — so I have to do a little plug for them on my blog. They rock. I’m an avid Apple user, and they make little laptop sleeves that fit my Macbook perfectly so it’s protected when I’m on location. Anyway, here’s a cool shot that Cory Barnes, the company’s president, sent me the other day. It’s a shot I took in Bishop that was turned into a huge banner at an industry trade show. Way cool! And if you’re looking for great bag for your laptop, you know where to go. Oh yeah — the camera I used for this shot is the same one I use at weddings, so if you ever wanted to make a huge banner of your wedding ceremony for something, you know it’s possible
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Random headshots 2007-05-08 14:06:54 It’s always cool to see what graphic designers do to your work once it’s in their hands. Here are two head shots I took recently, and then the resulting pages/ads designed by Andrea Russell at Optasia Graphics. I think she’s pretty good! I was psyched to be able to squeeze in a short corporate head shot gig and a magazine gig right before I left Santa Barbara for the summer and drove out to Colorado to begin the wedding season. Good timing, and it got the mind limbered up and the creative juices flowing.
Anyway, here’s the camera geek inside baseball: the corporate head shot was for a VP of a Santa Barbara financial advising firm. After checking out the office and taking a few other images, I decided I wanted to have her standing in front of the board room, arms crossed, looking like the boss in charge, the lady who knows what’s up, and the person who’s gonna get your money issues sorted. She had to look authoritative, so she had to stand out fro Read more:Random
New Coastal Woman Cover 2007-05-07 16:14:30 So this is kinda neat — Coastal
Woman’s new summer 2007 issue features a shot I took a few weeks ago on its cover. An honor! Check it out!
For the camera geeks in the house (hi Dad!) I lit the shot with two off-camera Canon 580 flashes. I didn’t need to break out the bigger White Lightening studio stobes because I was shooting at twilight and wanted to utilize a lot of the ambient light. One flash is directly behind the chair, adding a little rim lighting to the subjects and also reflecting light backwards to fill in the background a little. The other light was on a stand and was shooting through an umbrella to my left. Both were triggered by Pocket Wizards. By the way, if anyone wants to learn a lot about quick and dirty lighting techniques, they should hit up the Strobist blog at strobist.blogspot.com. Read more:Cover
Island Beauty 2007-04-19 21:30:43 Rudi and Russell… Wow. Congratulations, you two!
What a weekend. Words can’t do their wedding much justice, so for now (while I’m sitting on a lounge chair on a beach in the Bahamas, surfing the web over wifi) I’ll just post a few pictures. More to come — these are just a few randomly picked shots. Beautiful, genuine and dynamic couple, inclusive and friendly guests, a jaw-dropping location. Perfect. Wow.
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New Routing in Wanaka 2007-03-31 11:30:36 Okay, this is pretty rad. We stayed at a friend of a friend’s house in Wanaka for about a week, and part way through our visit, Ben decided to let us in on a little secret.
Way up on a hill above a river he’d discovered a huge crag that he was trying to develop. The Wanaka Rock Climbing Club has a battery-powered rotary hammer drill that anyone can borrow, so he’d been going up there bolting new sport climbs. One day while he was walking around and scoping his new crag, he found a giant hole in the ground — a hole 100 feet deep, 15 feet wide and maybe 40 feet long. The dimensions at the top of it are the same as the dimensions at the bottom, and the walls are completely sheer. It probably was formed by a giant earthquake. It’s a crazy fractured chasm; one side is completely overhung and the other is a blank slab. In the middle is a sharp, aesthetic arete that looks completely unclimbable from above.
So Ben took us to this hole and we were astounded. We sta Read more:Routing
Routeburn Track 2007-03-26 19:54:26 Ten days ago we backpacked into the Routeburn Track
, a beautiful trail in the Remarkables mountain range. The Routeburn is considered the little brother of the Milford Track, and it’s where everyone winds up who can’t get a Milford Track reservation (which we scored last October). The route is a three-day hike over the Southern Alps, and it’s spectacular. We actually didn’t do the whole trip, but instead hiked in for a night to meet up with some friends who were on their way out. We brought them wine and chocolate and they cooked us a cheesecake… which I spilled wine all over. Back country living at its finest! We picked a good time to go, too: our friends had been trudging through shin-deep floodwater on the trail thanks to a huge storm that smacked into the South Island. But the day we walked in, the storm cleared. Niiiiiicce. While on the track we also took a 30-km day hike up through the Harris Saddle, which on a sunny day should have afforded us vie
Wedding photography awards 2007-03-06 07:37:17 Great news! The results of the Wedding Photojournalist Association’s 2006 year-end contest are in, and I picked up a few awards for images in the scene setting, getting ready and first dance categories. Only a handful of photographers in Colorado have received awards from the WPJA, and the WPJA only accepts a small percentage of applicants in the first place, so it’s a huge honor. Here are the winning images… I think my favorite is the getting ready shot, but I also like the first dance shot a lot too.
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Rain, rain, go away 2007-03-05 07:36:21 Right now we’re in the town of Wanaka. Climbed yesterday and are weathering out a storm in the comfort of the van. Apparently the Milford Track is due for 200mm of rain today. Good thing we left when we did. Last night we watched a movie in the car on the laptop, and today we’re going to watch another one. Great way to travel! Here’s a nice shot of Lake Wanaka I took two nights ago. Really pretty place.
Rest Day in Milford 2007-03-03 07:34:17 We were feeling lethargic — a little ill, perhaps, or maybe just beat from working an impossible climb the day before — so we all decided to have a rest day in and around Milford Sound. Here’s a picture of that impossible climb. It’s a ridiculous 5.12c that’s got a bolt every three feet until a 15′ runout to the chains — with the crux being the last move. Goofy. Since you can’t actually work the move without taking a 20- to 30-footer, we used a dead tree to stick clip the anchor to be on toprope. Oh yeah, did I mention that the route is the crag’s warm up?! There’s another 5.12 — a 5.12d — but you have to climb a 5.13c to get to it. At least the area’s picturesque. It’s called Babylon, and you climb on the side of a cliff covered with waterfalls.
Anyway, the sound was only accessible by boat or foot (via the Milford Track) until the 1950s or so, when the Homer Tunnel was blasted through a kilometer of
How to have a green wedding 2007-05-30 07:43:34 I might be buying a home soon, and I’ve been really concerned having one that’s energy-efficient and sustainable. The place that we might make an offer on is way cool, but it’s got some issues such as a lot of enormous single-pane windows. Ideally we’d like to invest in the home to make it more efficient, but we may not be able to afford to do that. So after a little digging, I found out that it might be better for us to buy carbon offsets. We’d essentially donate X amount of money to a nonprofit, and the agency would use that money on projects that reduce the amount of CO2 emissions elsewhere. And the amount we’d pay would offset the amount of carbon emissions we let loose. One project I read about involved hooking long-haul diesel trucks to the electrical grid at truck stops, so they can power their electronic systems each night without having to keep their engines idling. That cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
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How to have a green wedding 2007-05-29 21:43:34 I might be buying a home soon, and I’ve been really concerned having one that’s energy-efficient and sustainable. The place that we might make an offer on is way cool, but it’s got some issues such as a lot of enormous single-pane windows. Ideally we’d like to invest in the home to make it more efficient, but we may not be able to afford to do that. So after a little digging, I found out that it might be better for us to buy carbon offsets. We’d essentially donate X amount of money to a nonprofit, and the agency would use that money on projects that reduce the amount of CO2 emissions elsewhere. And the amount we’d pay would offset the amount of carbon emissions we let loose. One project I read about involved hooking long-haul diesel trucks to the electrical grid at truck stops, so they can power their electronic systems each night without having to keep their engines idling. That cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Aruba wedding photography! 2007-06-10 08:58:26 Just got back from a fantastic weekend wedding
in Aruba, where Jen and Scott decided to have a small, intimate wedding with a best friend and close family at the Aruba Marriott. A huge highlight: once they were married, they cruised out into the ocean in their wedding attire and went tubing behind a ski boat. I hung out on the back of of the boat with their kids taking pictures the whole time, and wound up with some awesome shots. Everyone on the other boats in the harbor was super psyched to see them out there, and all the folks in the beach bars were hooting and hollering as we jetted past.
Their littlest girl, age 6, freaked out and started crying when the boat driver whipped into a curve and the tube overturned — she thought her mom was going to drown because her wedding dress was so heavy! But once she heard her mom’s uncontrollable laughter, she started laughing too.
Anyway, an awesome wedding. Jen, Scott — here’s to you! A big congrats. Here are just a Read more:photography
Engagement photos in Rocky Mountain National Park 2007-07-05 09:59:10 I’ve been neglecting my blog lately! Bad bad bad. But today I decided to update things with a short post. I’m in California right now preparing for a week of photo shoots. 14 corporate head shots, 3 magazine assignments and two weddings. Whoah! I flew in the evening of July 4th, so I managed to see fireworks shows from the airplane from Denver all the way to California. The coolest was flying into San Luis Obispo, where I got to see the fireworks exploding above the thick marine layer that had formed over the ocean. It was amazing watching these bursts illuminate the fog below.
Aaaanyway, a few days ago I shot Allison and Ben’s engagement session. We cruised in and out of RockyMountainNational
Park, and along the scenic Highway 7 with their two pups. Came away with some cool stuff. Congrats, you two! I look forward to the wedding!
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Palo Alto Wedding with a Hawaiian Flair 2007-07-09 05:16:32 Just shot Alex and Jasen’s wedding in Palo Alto, which was really cool. Alex’s family is from Hawaii, so the groomsmen were in Hawaiian
shirts and the bride’s maids were in orange floral dresses. Lots of colors, which is a photographic dream. During the ceremony, I was standing at the back of the chapel and a little kid just teetered out of one of the pews and decked in the middle of the aisle. I dropped down and got the hilarious picture below. She laid there for a while watching the ceremony, and then picked herself up and disappeared. Pretty funny. After the ceremony, Alex and Jasen wanted some shots at the Puglas Water Temple, a monument built for the arrival of Hetch Hetchy water in San Francisco. The grounds were closed, so Alex, being the adventurer she is, proceeded to break in. In her wedding dress! Check out the shots. And Alex, Jasen — congrats! Let’s go climbing next time I’m in California!
Awards for some Colorado wedding photography! 2008-03-06 22:08:53 Word!
The Wedding Photojournalist Association just released the results of its 2007 year end weddingphotography
contest, and I managed to snag a few awards. Hooray!
One, in the Ceremony category, was for this shot from Heather and Todd’s Vail wedding. They were married at the top of the mountain on the wedding deck. A storm was [...] Read more:Awards
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Imitating my hero 2008-02-25 08:47:42 I guess imitation is the biggest form of flattery, so along those lines I’ve been trying to replicate the crazy look of Tim Tadder, who is my photographic hero. He is an absolute lighting master, and I think the best in the business when it come to edgy, modern outdoor commercial work. If you haven’t [...]
Book project in the works! Woohoo! 2008-02-22 20:48:54 I can’t really detail this too much right now, since this project isn’t completed yet, but I’m too excited NOT to say anything. To be super super super brief, I’m helping to illustrate a book on eco living and eco weddings by Angelica Weihs, a green wedding planner in Los Angeles. Here’s a note the [...]
My awesome dog 2008-02-20 23:01:35 Took a break from designing some stuff and took a picture.
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Yoga to avoid postpartum depression 2008-02-14 22:51:31 Here’s a cool little project I got to work on the other day. Sona Dimidjian, a psych professor at CU Boulder, is doing research into how yoga helps pregnant women avoid postpartum depression
, which apparently 10 to 15 percent of new mothers experience. That’s a surprisingly large number! As part of a community outreach program, [...]
New Web Site! 2008-02-14 18:55:45 It’s been a while! Just a short note saying ‘check out the new web site’ for those out there with an RSS feed or who subscribe to this blog. It’s a sweet looking site! Click here to visit.
More updates coming soon, promise, it’s been a hectic winter. Spent a week in Florida photographing horses, revamped [...]
My dad’s site! 2008-01-06 12:10:03 So this is just straight-up cool. My dad has his own photo web site that you have to visit!
About mid-career, he basically stopped taking pictures all together because he got too busy, but a few years ago my parents moved to an island off the coast of Seattle and prepared for retirement. My dad took [...]
The Mouth 2008-01-03 11:37:43 Back in Cali kickin it with the crew. Miss it here. Good times, great friends. Toots got his first chance to visit one of our favorite places on earth, the stunning mountaintop boulder field at Lizard’s Mouth, home to the best moderate sandstone bouldering anywhere. And actually thanks to our buddy Bernd, a bunch of [...]
New contest winner 2007-12-18 18:30:45 Another image placed in a WPJA quarterly contest! This one placed in the ‘creative portrait’ category, which is pretty competitive since photographers are generally pretty on point with these pics and tend to shoot all sorts of crazy stuff.
Funny story behind this image: Brad and Gina got married at the Vista at Arrowhead in Beaver [...] Read more:winner
Rudi’s Buckles 2007-12-18 18:23:25 So back in April I had the pleasure and honor to photograph Rudi and Russell’s totally rad wedding in the Bahamas. They were married at the Abaco Club on Winding Bay, which is perhaps one of the most beautiful beaches anywhere. Anyway, Rudi is starting her own business called Nature Girl Designs making really cool [...]
Featured on Don’t Box Us In 2008-03-31 07:11:01 Ahhhhhhh!!! I’ve got so much to blog about and I’m so behind. Palm Beach, Practical Horseman Magazine, Sierra Magazine, The Stanley Hotel, the craziest wedding photographer convention on the planet, Vegas, perhaps an awesome new studio space — the list is endless! I don’t even know where to start, so I’ll delay the inevitable and [...] Read more:Featured
Vegas, Baby! 2008-04-08 08:21:43 In March I hit up Vegas
for the 2008 WPPI wedding photographer convention, which made Sin City even weirder than it was before all us 12,000 photo geeks showed up. (12,000! That’s not a typo!). I cruised out there with John Heisel, enduring lots of stormy weather and perhaps the mankiest hotel room on earth [...]
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