California Exploits - Climbing, hiking, etc…

July 1st, 2008

I just returned from a recent trip to California.  I went with some of my college climbing partners and spent about two weeks photographing places like Lake Tahoe, Death Valley, the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and Yosemite National Park.  Toss in some hiking and rock climbing and we had a great time.  Below are some of my images from the trip.

Death Valley National Park

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On Photography: Risk and Safety

June 13th, 2008

This year, a new company put on the Teva Mountain Games in Vail.  Much of the access photojournalists have enjoyed for the past several years was gone.  Photographers were cut off from some of the big events like climbing and mountain biking with the organizers citing safety reasons.  It got me thinking about the idea of how I approach risk and safety while photographing.

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Staying Creative

May 30th, 2008

People always tell me how lucky I am to be living in such a photogenic place; and they are quite right.  I am really lucky to be able to live in the mountains of Colorado, but even up here I can go through spells of feeling uncreative and out of ideas, a sort of “photographer’s block.”

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2008 WPPI 16X20 Print Competition

April 8th, 2008

Not to toot my own horn too much, but I just recieved the results from the 2008 WPPI 16X20 print competition, and I won 3rd place and an Accolade of Excellence Award for one of my photo journalism peices. Below is the press release from WPPI.

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Sandhill Crane Wildlife Photography

April 4th, 2008

This past week I had the good fortune of travelling to Nebraska for three days to photograph the Sandhill Crane migration along the Platte River.  These are just a few of the thousands of images I made there. Read the rest of this entry »