Sumthin Sunday Wk 25- 6 months

Although I did miss last weeks post(busy working and Laura came to visit), it has been 6 months since I started Sumthin Sundays. It a fun little side project that always keeps me thinking. The only problem is I haven't had any days to shoot what I really want to. Work takes up 6 days a week and on my day off, all my portrait subjects are busy and everyone wants to do something fun. Nobody wants to sit around and listen to me direct their posture while they stare into a flashing strobe when it's 80 degrees. So I've decided to show some shots from my shoot at Squaw. I never got a response back from his team manager so I'm going to let everyone peep some of my new stuff.

Here's Nick Langkamp, HMK Factory Team Rider, Snowboard-cross






Thank you everyone for staying loyal to my blog. I'll try my best to keep my photos as new and fresh as possible.

Peace!

Sumthin Sunday Wk 24- Shit, It's Monday

Damn I forgot again. I suck! But I have been super busy, working 6 days a week now, and just finished the final for my class I needed to graduate. Now that schools pretty much over I can finally relax a little and actually get some sun.

Last week Matt and I hiked the peak at Donner Pass. It took a few hours. We first had to hike through the tunnels then hand to hike to the top. When we got to the top there was a 50 ft rock that we were able to climb and chill in the sun at the top for about an hour. The ride down was super fun. We were triggering heavy, slow moving slides. They weren't dangerous but definitely a hazard.

On the walk back through the tunnels I decided to shoot some of the Ice with gels on my flashes. Here's a couple photos.

Sumthin Sunday Wk 23- Never doing that again

Last Monday I went to squaw to do a shoot and I'm pretty sure I received a slight concussion in result of a rider/photographer collision. I was with professional snowboard-cross racer, Nick Langkamp, trying to shoot some close-up, super layed-out, carves. This was the first angle of the day as I planned on shooting some portraits and other action angles. I did get a handful of photos but I have to save those.
By no means is this a good photo, but here's the shot right before collision:


You can tell I was in a horrible spot in the first place. I kept getting some decent results with him whizzing right by me, so i just wanted to keep inching in. Apparently I wasn't thinking too clearly about my positioning and the inconsistency of the snow texture, so I got hit.

At first I had no clue what happened until I grabbed my head in pain then saw Nick down also. I saw when I took this photo that I had to move so I ducked to the ground and his helmet nailed my camera right into my head. The hot shoe scraped my fore head and I think a piece of helmet cut Nicks face a little. Nothing serious. I continued through the rest of the day and didn't get the serious headache until the drive home. I had a headache the next day and a little the day after. Pretty crazy incident. I get the chills every time I picture it. Shit hurt.

Also, If everyone could go to WWW.YOBEAT.COM and vote in this weeks photo battle, that would be greatly appreciated. They have my name by the photo and in the voting tab so it's easy to vote for me. If you hate me for some reason or really dislike my photo and like the other better than vote for the other one, just at least vote.

Molto Apprezzata!