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Here are the photos that Ross Hamilton, Bruce Ely, Rob Finch and myself shot at the Civil War game. There a 68 photos but pay special attention to the fan photos Rob Finch shot....pretty cool. I really like the guy in Orange suit walking through the tunnel.
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Here are some family snaps from our trip to tiny Vale, Ore. Cole rode his motorcycle and Greta rode Clipper. My mom has a second home there on ten acres.
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Freshly slaughtered turkeys destined for the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving meal are drained of blood after having their necks cut upside down in a cone. While their fate ends the same as most other domestic turkeys, they lived a better life in free-range pens on pasture are are certified organic.
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While I was waiting for my assignment to start a competitive dive team was warming up. I just took one quick snap and here it is.
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In all my years of gathering caption information, I've never had to ask a mime for his name. There was an awkward silence.
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This is Rick Bowmer, aka "Boomer" a staff photographer for the Associated Press. We were standing around waiting on the OSU Cal game to start. Rick has had an amazing career including living in Israel. He get's called out on to cover assignments all over the world. He's a cool cat and and a notorious prankster. It's a pleasure working with him.
>My friend Craig was interviewed for the PhotoShelter Blog. He mentioned this blog. It's a good read.
Click on the link above to go there.
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Everybody's talking about true freshman Jacquizz Rodgers, star running back for the Oregon State Beavers. I saw him gain 144-yards against the Cal Bears Saturday. It's too bad a freshman has never won the Heisman?
Click on the link above to see a list of Heisman Trophy winners.
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A few months back I saw this dude doing his Elvis impersonation on Broadway. I was on my way to an assignment and passed him up. Last night, I finally saw him again and pulled over, set up a little light and made some frames. I also recorded his voice, but I won't get to the editing for awhile...if ever.
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I was going through some past assignments and found this image.
This was one of the few assignments this year where I didn't edit the work using my usual Aperture workflow. Since there were multiple photographers shooting the Rose Parade, we had card runners taking our work back to office for editing. Until now I've never looked at the entire shoot. Back in June, I took the dvd of all my images and imported them in the library.
Because of that, they weren't rated and had fallen out of my usual system for sorting my best images. Now that contest time is approaching. I'm in the process of sorting, ranking and organizing my work. At the same time, I'm updating my online portfolio, building books... and blogging. When all that's going on, sometimes images I missed earlier bubble up.
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Brookings has the highest concentration of Veterans in the state of Oregon. I took a trip down to the Southern Oregon Coast to shoot some portraits and find out why they like it so much.
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I think this really an interesting idea to pinpoint photos that made the biggest impact on Obama's campaign. Even more interesting, is that a photo in The Oregonian made the list...or more accurately images from Portland rally had the impact. I forget what I was doing during that rally, but I wasn't in town. Click the link above to see the entire list.
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This was an assignment to make an interesting exterior photo of Oregon Health Sciences University. I was on a skybridge looking back at the east side of building.
>Click on the link above to read how a "wannabe" flickr photographer (and con-man stock trader) named Lee Turner stole Kevin German's images and then submitted them to the UNICEF contest as his own. He even posted them on VII Visionaries site.
This guy has some serious issues.
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I've had this film rolling around in my bag for awhile and finally had it processed in scanned. Processing and scanning cost me $34 for three rolls, plus the cost of the film. That's a quite an investment. But, I really enjoy using the camera and I like the look it gives. Besides, I'd like to use it for a portrait assignment eventually and it's important to practice and build a workflow for it.
For the photo geeks out there, I used a Color FX Aperture plugin to create a neutral density graduated filter first, and then applied a the color stylizer filter on the first photo of Cole on his motorcycle.
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This is a gallery off my photoshelter.com website. It's now possible to embed the gallery. It's pretty cool in that if you click on the photo it goes to photoshelter and you could even license the image if I set it up that way. Update: I found out from Caroline at PhotoShelter that it's possible to change the size parameters in the html embed code. In this case I changed it to 800x694 pixels. This makes me very happy and I'll probably switch from picassa to photoshelter for my blog galleries.
After I posted this PhotoShelter added this functionality to the embed window. Thanks PhotoShelter!
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Here's a few snaps from the Friday night fashion show during Portland Fashion Week and the after parties. Check me out in the last frame. What a dork!
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I wandered around Santa Monica Pier before heading to LAX for my return trip. What can I say, I like tourist areas. They're touristy.
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I had a good bit of free time in Los Angeles during my trip to cover the Oregon/USC game. I walked along Venice Beach, Melrose, Avenue, and, of course, explored Hollywood at night. Here's few snaps from my wanderings.