Opening the Gates
Things changed mere moments after navigating the last switchback. The wind howled down the valley at an easy 60-plus miles per hour. Heather was barely able to stand, her GORE-TEX jacket flapping and snapping like a wet towel across butt cheeks. We laughed, unable to catch our breath. The wind was at…
Baja, Mexico Shoot Report
Their guides use, small, fast boats, to access the marlin in the 1000 foot deep waters of the Pacific Ocean. While these boats get you to where you need to be, the Pacific is not a placid refuge. To better describe the teeth jarring experience of searching for marlin on these waters, the term…
Rendezvous Enduro Shoot Report
In true Jackson, Wyoming fashion, mother nature intervened, coating the top of the mountain with 8 inches of snow. The wind also contributed by adding drifts of up to 18 inches. Race officials didn’t panic, they went out with 25 pre-riders and made a decision. That decision was to move the first stag…
Yellowstone 2021 Trip Report
We weren’t able to make our 5th Annual Winter Yellowstone Photo Adventure happen this year, thanks to our current world situation. That didn’t stop me from wanting to venture into the park though. So with a little bartering, a little money changing hands, I managed to make a single-day, lower loop trip happen…
Yellowstone 2020 Trip Report
As we arrived to our hotel in West Yellowstone, Montana, the weather forecast was predicting a winter storm of epic proportions. Luckily, our mode of transport, a monster truck looking snowcoach that we have nicknamed Grave Digger, isn’t really affected by dramatic winter weather. Yes, the storm happened as predicted, leaving close to 3…
Fonts for the Photographer
The font – a simple communication device. A font in it’s most rudimentary form is a style that is added to a letter of the alphabet. Castings were made from lead as early as the 1450’s. Can you imagine how hard it must have been to carve each letter to create a lead cast…
The Photographer-Athlete Dialogue
Being a professional photographer is a job, that quite honestly, has some pretty amazing and some pretty humorous moments. An important aspect of shooting a person out there in the wild is communication. Sometimes that communication goes well…
Pedaling Through the Days of Our Youth
Do you remember your first time? It was probably a crisp spring morning. Your training wheels were gone and your dad or mom was holding the back of your seat. You began pedaling. Wobbly. Leaning left and right. Quickly realizing that every time you turned the handlebars…
The Rise
I stand in the middle of a valley surrounded by rock formations. I can not see any of them yet, but I know they are there. It is so dark that I can not even tell if there are any clouds lingering to add to the drama of photography this morning. Red earth all over my shoes…