I recently traveled back to the south to cover a wedding for some old friends. Cristi and Andrew actually met in Russia at an orphanage workers conference, and it turned out that Cristi had gone to college at Davidson, about a half hour from where Andrew grew up in Charlotte! Here are a few pictures from their wedding:
Every fall, Nike sponsors a high school national cross country championship; they try to bring in as much talent as they can from throughout the country, so it’s organized into regional qualifiers. They chose to have the northwest qualifier in Boise (at Eagle Island State Park) this year, so I got to shoot it!
Probably the best thing about this assignment was getting to shoot a sport that I’ve competed in for the last ten years – high school cross country in Georgia, Division 1 Cross Country and Track and Field at Auburn, and now running on my own in Boise. Conveniently, that helps quite a bit with photographing racing – not only do I have the perspective of a runner artistically, but also I’m able to follow the entire race, rather than being pinned to just the couple of points that are close enough to walk back and forth from the start-finish area.
You can find more info about Nike’s high school cross country championships at the official web site: Nike Cross Nationals
Today I got to shoot a bit of the Bob Firman Cross Country Invitational at Eagle Island State Park! I was originally planning on running in it but with how my legs were feeling today… I took photos instead.
Boise State’s team comes around a corner in the last 1000 meters of the Men’s 8k race
Two Northwest Nazarene University runners take the early lead. One held the pace for the duration; the other fell back into the pack in the second of three laps.
At the end of the second lap, Boise State still had a pack together in the top ten runners; they kept the pack together for the entire race to take the win.
These are some portraits of a couple of friends who picked me for their wedding! They’re getting married on March 14th in downtown Boise. Every time I’ve been to this location, there are several photographers all around this train trestle – which means it’s pretty difficult to get enough room to shoot… So the solution was to go there on a grey, dreary day in the middle of winter, and then use some of my own lighting to spice things up a little!
Congratulations Casey and Shylee!
Here’s a shot of my little sister that I took last night.
Again, on this I used my signature lighting – a couple of small flashes with gels to shift the color of the background; I had also dragged the shutter a bit to keep some blur on the traffic driving by.
These are some family portraits I made down in Cascade, Idaho recently. I love working along Cascade Reservoir – it’s got a lot of great photo sports, especially with Tamarack Resort visible in the background. And the natural rock formations made a great setting in themselves too!
I’ve gotten a lot of questions from other photographers on how I did the lighting – the secret is to, when you have a day with otherwise not so great light, bring your own! The great thing about dismal lighting is that it allows you to supplement the natural light with lighting that you’ve set up yourself – and then keeping both the natural light and artificial light in tune with each other.
Today I shot some senior portraits in downtown Boise, Idaho. We started over at Hyde Park and then gradually made our way over to downtown on 8th street and then to the Anne Frank memorial for the last few photos.
It probably doesn’t hurt that Chelsea is incredibly photogenic, too!
It’s been a while since the last post… I’ve been putting most of my time into catching up on all the paperwork that I got behind on during wedding season, but somewhere in the mix also trying to keep up with getting albums designed… I’ll have the whole thing done (finally!) in a couple of days, but for the moment here’s a shot from John and Haley’s album:
A couple of my friends got married this weekend in McCall, Idaho (Awesome little town!)… Here are the photos, and thanks for looking!
This is a 5-minute portrait shoot I did with a couple of friends this weekend.
