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25 Hours of Frog Hollow 2011

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:21:39 +0000

Having just got back from the True Grit Epic in St. George, Utah, I remembered that I have some images from 25 Hours of Frog Hollow to share, which is in the same general area. Utah is always a gorgeous place to visit, my trips are always too short. Check out my story from the [...]

My Favorite Photos of 2011

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:38:58 +0000

These may not be my best images from the year (though many are), but they are the ones that that I had the most fun creating. Whether it was the joy of the pursuit while out feature hunting, or a solemn moment during a funeral, these images came from the heart. Thanks for looking!

Recent Portraits 12/13/11

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:14:19 +0000

Here is a quick update with several recent portraits, most of what I qualify as “daily work”; stuff that includes very little pre-planning and lots of improvisation. A while back I talked about The Five Minute Portrait, and this series falls into that same category.

Photo Essay: Wanderings on a Canadian Farm

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:06:05 +0000

Following up from an earlier post, I wanted to share some more images from my vacation this summer. As I stated before, this series was part of a personal project I embarked on during my time in Canada and Michigan, but this particular set of photographs focuses on the farm and agriculture elements we visited [...]

From the Archive: Ditch Duty

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:42:27 +0000

Three years ago I tagged along with the Gallup Police Department’s Community Service Aids during a night time patrol they referred to as “Ditch Duty”. It involved searching the city of Gallup for transients that were hanging out in fields, ditches and other locations when night time temperatures would dip below freezing. Started about ten [...]

Photo Essay: My Summer Vacation

admin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:03:33 +0000

The past several months have kept me very busy; between my full-time job as a photojournalist for a newspaper, covering mountain bike races for Mountain Flyer and various other freelance assignments I’ve had very little time to shoot anything for myself. During the course of the two vacations I took this summer, I tried to [...]

Double Boundary Trail for Mountain Flyer

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:43:12 +0000

As dawn broke early one morning, 13 racers left the empty streets of Taos, N.M. and headed for the mountains. Though the skies were dreary and the ground damp from a late night rain, the clouds ahead appeared to be parting, as if greeting the hardy bunch of mountain bikers as they began their ascent. [...]

Gallup Remembers 9/11

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:31:17 +0000

This was from a fun project that the entire staff of the Gallup Independent photo department put together. The idea was simple: create a mosaic of faces of people in our community to go along with a September 11th front page feature story. We photographed everyone on a simple, clean white background next to a [...]

Wild Horse Roundup

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:19:09 +0000

I love photographing the West, and I’m especially fond of shooting cowboys and horses as they do their work. There’s something that’s beautiful and iconic about what they do, especially as the need for the traditional cowboy diminishes. As such, it was to my delight that I came across a wild horse roundup while driving [...]

Running in the Shadow of Dowa Yallana

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:36:07 +0000

The scene above was photographed in Zuni, New Mexico in front of Dowa Yallana Mesa on the Zuni Pueblo as part of a story on a group of runners that run together in support of sobriety. I had other photos with the full group, but I liked the solitude of the lone man as he [...]