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Random headshots
2007-05-08 21:06:00
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 ...
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New Coastal Woman Cover
2007-05-07 23:14:00
So this is kinda neat — Coast al 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.
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Island Beauty
2007-04-20 04:30:00
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. Beau tiful, 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 18:30:00
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 ...

Routeburn Track
2007-03-27 02:54:00
Ten days ago we backpacked into the Route burn Trac k , 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 ...
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Wedding photography awards
2007-03-06 14:37:00
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 14:36:00
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.
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Rest Day in Milford
2007-03-03 14:34:00
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 Milf ord 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 ...
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