UNPA Banquet

Last month I made it down to Utah for awhile and while there I got to go to the UNPA banquet receiving a HM in sports action and the coveted winner of the "Worst Photo of the Year" trophy. These are just a couple of shots I took while at the banquet. Thanks for everyone that was there, it's great getting to hang with the best photogs in the state, even if only for a min. or two. Special thanks to Trent, Eli, and Laura as well.

BASE Jumping

BASE Jumping around here is liking covering NASCAR in Daytona. It's typical, yet always crazy and amazing. A benefit of living in Twin Falls now is that this is one of the only if not the only place in America where it's legal to jump off a bridge. NPPA Clip here I come!

Typical Classroom

Just a little interaction in a classroom setting for an assignment. I only post this cause I call these images my Bethesque photos. My friend Beth and I shoot very differently (she gets all the awards :)) So from time to time I try and shoot a focal length closer to 50 mm. When I do I get photos closer to what I think are like hers. Anyways, for a boring classroom shot I think this one is one of my better ones. Thanks Beth for making me shoot outside my box! :)

Daylight Football

Granted it's not WSU daytime football but it still sure was fun. The atmosphere at these games are still way dumbed down compared to high school football in Utah. Weird.

Garden Variety

The silver lining of this shoot was simple. Drive around for an hour on country roads with no directions or contact info and get frustrated. Finally finding the place with golden light...Priceless.

Rodeo

This is now my sixth? rodeo I've covered I think. Nothing new really except I used to have to shoot a ton of gallery images and now I don't. You know how it's hell shooting the Broncs and trying to find out who just rode and then tack down their score, yeah I had a nice fan help me with most of that so my shooting experience was a notch or two above what it usually is. On the other hand once again on deadline I never get to shoot the whole thing.

Gators!

This was one of several assignments I had while covering the Twin Falls County Fair. Granted this was a really fun easy gig but I'll tell you what these guys don't have anything on the EISF or the Utah State Fair. Nonetheless it was great getting out and shooting.

Dancing with a Pole

I really need to finish my project on this but for now here on some shots that I thought were dynamic. Nothing like building core strength right?

River Xing

This was a fun little event to cover. The reactment of the pioneer crossing on their way to the west. Thousands turned out on the windy nasty day to see a little bit of history cross their paths.

Jackson Hill Climb '04

I came across these going through some old archives the other day. I covered this really just for fun with my close friend and fellow photog Kort Duce. You can find his amazing portfolio here www.kortduce.com. In addition to having a great time during my six hours on the side of a mountain I was almost ran over a few times. Talk about staying on your toes.

Bombay Sapphire

I shot this image 5 years ago using the studio I managed. I believe it was a three light set up using two blue gels, two stools and a piece of plexiglas. Tonight I was looking for some negative scans and I came across this image (I didn't find the scans I was looking for) and decided I would work a little magic and juice it up a bit. As for the bottle/martini glass, they were a gift. I suppose I wanted to be a bit like James Bond and drink Martini's but turns out I hate Gin and Dry Vermouth, go figure. Therefore this bottle became a prop for me for half a decade and I have several "commercial" shots of this bottle over the years. Cheers.

Buggin'

I washed the outside of the house the other day and came across a couple of photos. I snagged the 300 2.8 and popped some shots off.

Hotlanta

Atlanta....Idaho. Yeah, I hadn't heard of it either. Turns out to be a great little ghost town/camping spot. I thought of the Blair Witch Project the whole time i was there. I shot all these with my point and shoot not that it matters to any of you though. Top image is of my step brother, second shot is his cousin and the fourth shot is my step sister. All in all it was a great time sleeping in a tent for the first time in 15 years and without the internet for 5 days straight. :)

Rekindling a Cementery

This was an odd shoot. I go out to the middle of nowhere to locate an ancient cemetery that has been overgrown and had no upkeep whatsoever in the last 50 years or so. Turns out it's been completely forgotten about. It's privately owned but should be publicly kept up. No one knows what the hell to do with it so someone cut the grass and we had a rededication ceremony for it. I felt like the kid in the picture for the most part until I started talking to the locals about the history of the site. (I was a history minor after all. :)

Cheap Wet Date

This young couple has decided to scale back on the dinners and the movies for "date night" (which as we all know is when people who are married and have too many kids decide that "date night" is the only way to keep the flame burning) and do some cheap frisbee golf. Well....as it goes this nice young lady lost her frisbee in the creek and fell in trying to retrieve it. I felt really bad and we cut the shoot short, I knew I had what I needed. :)