Haven’t posted anything lately as I’ve been very busy with a new project that will be launched sometime next week (stay tuned…)
In the meantime, I thought I’d post some images from earlier this week at my girlfriend’s house (in Norway).
Pikes Peak International Raceway, Colorado
A few shots from the past few months (or so). Enjoy!
The other side of George, while on assignment for Discovery Channel Magazine last month (H2):
Skiing (mostly rappelling, actually) the Heart of Darkness couloir with CJ in April, taken with tri-x on the xPan:
A couple Type 55 P/N on the Linhof. Downtown SLC construction:
Early summer morning at Alta, 15 minutes from my house (on the Linhof):
From my Graflex Super B 2×3 (6×9cm). Alta, UT:
Provo, UT on the Graflex 2×3″:
Ben Booth leading the Chicago Overhang in Rock Canyon. Hassy 503CW:
Drove up behind Squaw Peak this evening to see the fall colors, but ended up responding to something else. Mainly, I realized how much I miss the mountains above Utah Valley.
Of course, there was some color, too.
Happened to be downtown last night during SLC’s torrential downpour. Oh, and Marie was wearing her Hunter boots. And yes, I had the Linhof in the back of the Subaru…as always.
Type 55 & 59:
Needed some gritty/muddy running shots for a quick add to my portfolio, so I called up my friend Courtney, a former Cytomax™ athlete who apparently specializes in modeling from the knees down 
. Although we’d just done a climb/run up Mt. Superior the morning before, Courtney always seems to be up for more pain and suffering – which is probably the best way to sum up splashing through the same creek 100 times in a row. Mother nature threatened us with a blank blue sky for most of the morning, and being August there was no real mud to speak of, but I think we squeaked by with a few workable options. Thanks Courtney!
Here’s a handful of photos from this summer’s trip to Norway & rail trip through Europe. Enjoy!
The Wasatch Powderkeg is a ski-mountaineering race that covers nearly 6,000′ vertical feet of climbing and skiing. That is, skiers start from the bottom of Alta ski resort and ’skin’ (i.e. hike on skis) nearly 2,000′ to the top before racing back down. Repeated 4 times on 3 different peaks. The top racers often finish in under 2 hours.
While I’ve raced the Powderkeg several times in years past (including a Rec division win my first year!), I’ve always wanted to photograph it. Coming down with a chest cold this year offered a perfect excuse to finally pull out the camera.
As the race covers a lot of terrain, I debated for a few weeks about where to shoot from – thinking I’d photograph the racers as they zoomed by. However, the day before the race it struck me that what I’d really like to do is capture the racers immediately after they finish, in a series of portraits. Luckily my 8×10 holders were already loaded!
Since the finish line was more than a 1/4 mile up the hill, my assistant Kealan and I had to haul about 400lbs of gear up the hill (backdrop, cameras, film, tripod, etc.)
The portraits were mostly shot on 8×10 film, which is somewhat akin to burning $20 bills, with some of the later images shot on my Graflex 4×5 Series D.
Enjoy!
Travelled out to the Great Salt Lake last weekend to see Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’. Being my first visit (not counting the times I’ve flown over it), it was only natural that I first see it and photograph it at night. That is, I seem to have a penchant for first visiting landmark locations while at night. For example, I made three trips to photograph Delicate Arch before finally seeing it in daylight. The same could be said of Mt. Timpanogos, Lone Peak cirque, and many others.
Seeing a natural (or manmade) form for the first time in the dim star- or moon-light adds a dimension of mystery. It’s as though the brain hasn’t quite resolved everything, leaving more room for the imagination to run free. Mountain walls loom taller overhead, sandstone arches feel thoroughly lunar, and a singular spiral jetty in the desert evokes extraterrestrials.
Unfortunately, my beloved Subaru blew out its turbo-charger on the way home, making these photos worth at least $1,500
