Stateside

After 3 months in Spain, I've finally returned to the U.S. - a short weekend in California, and I'm back in cold, snowy Denver. While the weather isn't the best at the moment, I really did miss this city, and more importantly the people.

Archived : Lleida

December 1, 2009 : Just spent a week in Lleida, visiting photographer and iStock Inspector Joan Vicent Cantó. Joan and his wife were amazing hosts, showing me around their city and really going out of their way to make me feel welcomed.

We even took a day trip to Barcelona where we met up with more friends and iStockers, Mercè, Xavier, Eva and Pepe, to name a few.

While my Spanish may be bad, my Catalan is non-existent.. still we all managed to communicate and have a good time!

Here's Joan with one of his more famous models:

Archived: San Sebastian

November 23, 2009 : Agur San Sebastian! Agur Pais Vasco!

Archived : Mundaka

November 22, 2009 : After a weekend partying in Santander, spent some time in Mundaka, Vizcaya. Peaceful and relaxing, there wasn't much surf so I wandered around shooting photos of the town and estuary.

The swell forecast called for waves later in the week, so I extended the trip a bit and scored on my last day - overhead and offshore. The crowd was thick in the morning, but by afternoon, most had gone home. Ended up surfing one of the world's best waves with about 10 other people. Amazing..

Archived : River Surfing

November 5, 2009 : Surfers waiting on a wave in San Sebastian's Rio Urumea. The swell was so big, waves were breaking upstream in the middle of the city.

Archived : Longboarding

November 2, 2009 : Allan

Here's my friend Allan, surfing a smaller day at San Sebastian's Playa Zurriola.

Archived : Delft

October 26, 2009 : Just got back from a week in Delft, the Netherlands, visiting photographer and fellow iStock Inspector Ivar Teunissen. Had a great time checking out the town, going to parties, and meeting tons of cool fun people.

Made it up to Amsterdam, of course, where we played with the new Canon 7D on a small video shoot for a local DJ group.

Ivar with model Starla:

Water and Waves

More water and waves

San Sebastian

After a long flight to Spain and a few days in Madrid, I've finally made it up to San Sebastian. Rode on my first "hi-speed" train, which was a much more enjoyable experience than the EL.

Oh and I finally got a chance to properly test the new water housing, at Zurriola beach (about a block from the apartment).

New Toys and New Travels

Just picked up a sport housing from SPL Waterousings. Not much surf here in San Diego at the moment, but headed to Spain on friday, and can't wait to get in the water over there..

Portraits

As it's my last week in Denver, I decided to have a few friends over for drinks and photos. This is my favorite shot of the night, Trevor and 10-week-old Seadrick.

Calgary

Just spent a week on the road - drove up to Calgary for iStockalypse HQ. It was really great to meet so many other iStock folks, and the drive was nice too - drove through the Grand Tetons and camped out in Yellowstone and Glacier on the way up.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Spent some time hiking and camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, playing with a new lens, Tokina's 10-17mm fisheye. The lens is sharp and fun, but creates quite a bit of chromatic aberration.. still, nothing that can't be handled in photoshop.

Rock Climber

Rock climber (Matt) on wall in Joshua Tree, available at Getty Images

Courtney

Courtney on Getty.. I'm a bit behind getting these posted, but better late than never!

I've also updated the stock page to reflect some new additions.

Robot & Spacegirl

Robot & Spacegirl shoot at Denver's Irish Rover and Sputnik w/models Dawn & Katie.

Westward Music Showcase

Shot a ton of bands and had a lot of fun at the Westward Music Showcase. The Donnybrook Writing Academy has a review up, which includes a few of my images, and I've uploaded a few more to the flickr stream.

Profile Design

Just finished up a 2 day shoot for Profile Design out in Boulder. I really need to remember sunblock next time..

Profile Design Ad Campaign

New Website

Make quite a few updates to the website.. new code, new images. enjoy!

Andria

More images of Andria.

Salton Sea

Headed back to Denver tonight, but thought I'd post this first: A friend and I headed out to the Salton Sea last weekend to shoot photos of some of the old ruins out there. Lots of fun and only a day trip, I'd recommend it for anyone into photography.

Dogs on Roofs

So I logged into Flickr today, and there was a link to a group that i thought was.. entertaining, Dogs on Roofs. Enjoy!

San Diego & LA

Flying out to the coast for a quick trip. Surf, sun, family and friends. Maybe even some photography.

Succeed in Evil

Awesome set of stories. I've been waiting a while to hear more from the author, and it looks like he's finally posting again.

"How to Succeed in Evil is not a self-help page for the maladjusted. It it is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He’s like Arthur Anderson for Supervillians."

http://succeedinevil.com

Happy St Patrick's Day

Holiday Shoot

Finished up shooting my holiday series last week, and have got just about all the processing done.




shoot info:

composite shot, 3 main shoots plus pick-ups.
ABR800 gelled blue with shoot-through at camera right/left.
285HV w/ 2x CTO in lamp. 285HV gelled green with reflective umbrella at camera left/right for fill. iso100, 1/160 @ f/8.

quite a bit of photoshop work on this one. the girls all recieved a pin-up style airbrush treatment, while the guys all have a high-pass style filter added. Lots of artificial shadows and highlights too, of course.

production images: