Happy_Holidays!

Wishing you and yours the Happiest of Holiday Seasons and looking forward to a great new year in 2009!

Portland_Receives_Epic_Snow

Portland got an epic dump of snow today. We usually get a dusting a couple of times a winter whereby every kid (not defined by age) in our neighborhood pulls out their sliding implement of choice (snowboard, innertube, cardboard, etc.) and makes their way to the hillside at Chapman Elementary. Today however, there was more than enough snow to pick up some decent speed and we have more in the forecast!

Vanillawood

More cool work by James and Kricken Yaker of Vanillawood. Love this cool forest wallpaper!

Vanillawood

These interiors are from a recent shoot with a new client called Vanillawood, a design/build firm here in Portland headed by the husband and wife team of James and Kricken Yaker. Great vision and style and a ton of fun to work with.

Adam_Dunlap

I had the opportunity to shoot some personal work with Adam Dunlap this week at Keller Fountain in downtown Portland, Oregon. He is an expert in Parkour , a practice that has been described as "moving from one point to another as smoothly, efficiently and quickly as possible using principally the abilities of the human body." I am sure that this is not the perfect description, but to me it resembles martial art combined with gymnastics as there are elements of speed, strength, balance and agility. The bottom line is it is pretty incredible to watch and Adam was amazing to photograph. Mad props to his agency Sports Unlimited for hooking us up.

Solomon

I did a quick shoot this morning with elite cyclocross racer Solomon Woras before the US Gran Prix event here in Portland. The seamless was set up in my living room and I had promised him that I would only need a half hour of his time (I think that we only used 20 minutes though). Super nice guy and pretty amazing athlete. These are some of the before's and you can see the finished piece on my portfolio site.

Thanksgiving_Dinner . . . in_August?

We shot this fleece clad Thanksgiving dinner scenario for the autumn Sahalie catalog on one of the hottest days in August. Thanks to Rich Lorimor at Sahalie for the opportunity and to Holly Gits for the styling and production.

Little_Butter_Bean

My wife Kelly and 5 month old daughter Malia were able to come over to Bend to join me on the Royal Robbins shoot recently and Bo snapped this shot of me and the little butter bean on the way to lunch one day between sessions.

Central_Oregon

One of the lovely things that I have found about traveling in the car with a new baby is that we end up needing to stop for feeding, diaper changes, etc. in places that I never would under normal circumstances. These were grabbed along the highway on the way over to Bend from Portland on a clearing evening just after a storm.

Tahoe

I was in Tahoe this week for the fall shoot with Carve Designs and was treated to several perfect days of crisp, clear autumn weather. Thanks to Jen and Katie for making it all happen. Here's a sneak peak!

University_of_Puget_Sound

I went to public school from Kindergarten all the way through the completion of my Bachelor's degree. I wasn't a candidate for the Ivy League and to be honest, I didn't really even aspire to academic greatness when I was applying to college. However, this past week I got a good taste of what it would have been like to attend a small private school (there were 15k more students on my college campus than there were in my home town) and get lots of hands on experience, small student to instructor ratios, not to mention a gorgeous campus filled with historic architecture covered in what else but . . . ivy. No, we weren't even on the East Coast. Rather we were in Tacoma at the University of Puget Sound shooting for Neustadt Creative Marketing. It was a super fun time filled with fall color (and weather) and we made some great new images for the university. Thanks so much to Gayle at UPS for hosting us and BethAnne at Neustadt for making it all happen. Hopefully we can put up some of the finished work that contains actual students (yes, that is my assistant Andrew "sitting in" in the last frame) when they come out in a few months.

Sigur_Ros

I caught the Icelandic band Sigur Ros in concert this week at the Schnitz here in Portland. If you don't know these guys you are seriously missing out. Amazing music and art and a mind blowing performance!

Women's_Running_Magazine

Personality in a model is a beautiful, beautiful thing! This was a cover shoot for Women's Running Magazine at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, California and between takes she was cracking us all up with epic displays of great personality. If you are a model you definitely get ahead with your looks, but you will stay there with your personality. Thanks to Kristin for bringing the creative vision.

Shape_Magazine

We recently finished up a 12 issue assignment for Shape Magazine documenting the dedicated , year-long investment by Maureen Healy to get back into shape adjust her diet. Congrats Maureen on a great job and thanks to Jane Seymour at Shape for the opportunity.

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