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Perseid Meteor Shower, TONIGHT!
V and I headed up to Wrightwood for the weekend with some family friends to catch a glimpse of the meteor shower. If you have time to get away from the city lights you should get out and take a look. Last night we saw about 20-25 shooting stars in about an hours time. Despite [...]
X Games: Day 5 Super Rally and Endurocross
X Games Day 5 was a really fun day, the first event I went to was the Rally Car race through the streets of downtown LA. Congratulations to Brian Deegan for winning the gold medal. Rally Car races were definitely a highlight for me at the X Games this year. I felt like at this [...]
Navy Week: Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
On Thursday I was given a really exciting assignment. To board and tour the USS Abraham Lincoln in Port of Los Angeles for Navy Week. I wasn’t sure what to do but I met a Commander at a gunner ship and he introduced me to Tyler Mustin, a 22 year-old Airman from Nashville, TN. Tyler [...]
X Games: Day 5 Preview
As you can imagine, five days of shooting, 4 X Games and an aircraft carrier. I’m completely exhausted. From morning to morning capturing, running around, carrying photo gear, and then up all night editing. So, I’m going to sleep, but I wanted to post something from today. Here’s a teaser photo from today’s events. I’ll [...]
X Games: Day 3
I missed day two of the X Games because I had to drive to Port of Los Angeles to photograph Navy week and board the USS Abraham Lincoln. Totally sweet opportunity that I’m glad I accepted. This is why there won’t be a “Day 2″ post but there will be some Navy photos. I’m extremely [...]
Killa, makin’ me smile
This adorable pup is my brother Jimmy’s. I just got home from a long day of traffic and wandering around an air craft carrier (more photos to edit and put up!). I didn’t get to go to the X Games today so a little bummed about that, but still so happy about naval ship. Learning [...]
X Games: Day 1
Today was an amazing, incredible, and exciting day. A day of firsts, that will launch a week of firsts. Tomorrow I get to board an aircraft carrier to take photographs for Navy week. This summer pretty much rocks. Today also in a lot of ways felt like the first day of highschool. Nobody tells you [...]
Lady of the Dead
I woke up yesterday morning to find V in the downstairs bathroom putting on makeup. I asked what she was doing and she told me about a friend who was selling some artwork at the LA Convention Center for an event and she was to go down and help her by dressing up and hanging [...]
Critical Mass, Los Angeles
Critical Mass in LA is an incredible experience. Even if you’re not a bike fanatic like me you’d still enjoy it. There’s nothing like riding in a huge parade of people having fun. Men and women everywhere riding tricked out custom bikes, horns blaring and bike bells fill the air, speakers pulled by dolly’s bumping [...]
My Fourth
My fourth of July was quite interesting. When I was a younger child my family had a split. I stopped seeing extended family members almost immediately. No contact at all. As an adult, I’ve been slowly trying to reconnect with these people I have vague childhood memories with. I was invited to a family fourth [...]
Los Angeles Anime Con 2011
For fun, my friend Lan Bui and I went to the lobby of this years Anime Con in Los Angeles Convention Center where we did some lighting experiments for the upcoming San Diego Comic Con. My goal was to light and capture people without them knowing any better. So how did the experiment fair? It [...]
Night Time in Squaw Flat
One of the most relaxing things in the world for me is to go out somewhere, in the night, and take long exposures. It doesn’t matter where, just as long as I can just be alone and focus on what I’m doing. Sometimes it’s just nice to take a pretty photo, without meaning, or context, [...]
Bus Photographer
Meet Loring M. Lawrence, the Editor-in-Chief of the “Bus Industry Magazine.” I bumped into Loring as we both stopped on this corner, at the exact same time, to take a photo of people getting onto a bus. The reason I was taking the photos is it reminded me of an exact same scene in El [...]
1.5 Weeks
I just spent three days camping in Canyonlands, Utah. I’ve taken thousands of photos while I was white water rafting, biking, and hiking everyday in this amazing place. I still don’t have the time to go through and look at them, much less edit. My camera battery died while I was out there and this [...]
Bike Week 2011
It’s bike week here in Rochester. Everyday I’ll be riding my bike while taking pictures. This is more of a summer photo ride for myself. In celebration of a complete year in school, I went from freshman to almost junior in 12 months. Now I’m gonna ride my bike and take some fun pictures. Here’s [...]
My Birthday
LAST FRIDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY! It was filled with tons of random, unplanned fun. It started with my friend Amy Rasmussen visiting me from NYC. She wasn’t coming for my birthday but just to look for a bike and to visit.
Under the Bridge
Here in Rochester is a pretty fantastic park called Genessee Valley Park. The city uses these parks pretty frequently and it is littered with amazing bike paths that criss cross the Genessee River, the Eerie Canal, and the 490 which runs right through the park. While riding my bike I found this really interesting [...]
Beth Small
Meet Beth Small, she works at me and Christian’s newest and most favorite restaurant Han Noodle Bar on Monroe Ave in Rochester, NY. She’s a really sweet, fun person, who can never beat me at Mario Kart no matter how hard she tries. Whilst hanging out one night I decided to take a few photos [...]
Classic
I play the violin, (something a lot of people don’t know about me). It occurred to me that I don’t have any photos of it. This precious thing in my life and I don’t have one photo of. I’ve changed that. Here’s the first set of photos from my shoot in the studio last night. [...]
NYC Day 5 – Vautrin: Shooting from the Hip
Vautrin (a nickname) is a cool guy. He came and spoke with our class on the last day of our NYC trip. He shared with us his portfolio which was comprised of hip shots taken outside and in night clubs in St. Mark’s Place, NY. I won’t post a photo of Vautrin, he goes by a [...]
Frank Fournier, Words of Wisdom
So as I posted before about my first day of my NYC field trip, our first meeting was with Frank Fournier. He said a lot of amazing things so I’ve decided just to throw them up on here for your pleasure and my record. Don’t follow the pack or you’ll look like the [...]
NYC Trip Day 4 – In the Field
By the time we had reached Time magazine and Sports Illustrated, we really weren’t being told anything we hadn’t learned already. However, I’ll share my notes still. Concerning photography, taking a good photo is good but what is important is finding a story and executing it visually. To be a hire-able photographer you [...]
NYC Trip Day 3 – Great Captions are more important than Great Photos
Today the class went to visit the Wall Street Journal and AP Headquarters. I was quite impressed with the WSJ and their story about how they went from a word only and the occasional graphic to a full fledged photo newspaper. In fact, their newspaper’s photo department was actually extremely new only having started around [...]
NYC Trip Day 2 – Style is Fleeting, but Substance Will Remain
NYC Trip Day 2 Today was a busy day that started out on the north side of Brooklyn on Jay st, which is coincidentally the same street that my cousin works on. After bumping into her, we walked one building over and sat in the lobby of VII, a collective of some pretty amazing photographers. [...]