My cousin Cody is somewhat of a mechanical genius I have been told and for his age it would really be an understatement to say somewhat. His passion and understanding of motorized vehicles runs in the blood according to the older ones in the family. My grandfather has this frankenstein of a tractor that he used to use as a younger man in his fields and my aunts and uncles learned to drive on it when they were 16. A year or two ago Cody at the age of 17 took this beast which has parts on it ranging from a 1920 radiator to an 1930′s engine a 1950′s truck bed and a 19 something transmissions on it back to life after 30+ years of sleep. Yesterday he came over to visit and we decided to go out and see if the old beast would awake once again. We didn’t have to wait long because after about 10 minutes he had the engine firing and a large plume of blue smoke was bellowing out the exhaust. Well that’s my story about my cousin Cody, and here are some photos to prove I was not making it all up.
Posts Tagged: Photography
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Jun 09
I steal Polaroids
Olivia has a polaroid camera but refuses to ever use it. Last night I took it from her and snapped off three photos before she could rip it out of my hands. I now owe her $6 for wasted polaroids even though she has about 50 or so on her wall in her room.
Roid Rage
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Jun 09
Pennsylvania Skateboarding
Now that it’s summer and I don’t have a job I have been skateboarding quite a bit and have been getting better in the last 2 months then I have in the past 5 years. My total bag of tricks is as follows Ollie, Ollie off objects (I count that as a tick in my book), Heel Flip, Frontside Shove it, Frontside 180, and Backside Boardslide. The main reason for my success is the PIRATE skateboard I have been riding thanks to Alex.
I also got to shoot some skateboarding the other week with Doug Usko at Mop Top. Matt Roberge tall ass came down with some friends to ride and film that weekend also and the footage will be in an edit soon.
Summer has been good so far and hopefully I will have some more time spent skating and shooting. The last two weeks have been dull as hell.
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- I got POP
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- Heels For Days
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Jun 09
ECS Issue 5.3
Double Page of Justin Mullen Frontside 720 at Big Boulder, PA. Stoked to see this shot get run.
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Jun 09
Balancing Backlighting With Flash
Have you been in a situation where the subject you wanted to shoot was in the shade or had a shadow cast on it, and the background was blown out in your attempt to properly expose your subject?
EXAMPLE
In this post we are going to cover how to make much better photos out of situations like this.
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May 09
Pirate Skateboards Online Ads
Here are some ads that I shot for Pirate Skateboards. Check out their videos.
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- Ad 1
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- Ad 2
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May 09
April 4-29
The month started off with shooting the Academy Snowboard Camp at Boreal. Things then got serious as I shot with the whole Academy team for 5 day all threw north Tahoe. Sugar Bowl built Nick Poohachoff a large step up jump that we shot on for two days. Also Ryan Tarbell got shots on a very large and long log we found. The rest of the month was really slow and spent just riding until late April when the Academy Team came back up to shoot an ad at Squaw Valley. I also went down and meet with the Transwolrd and Snowboarder Magazine offices during April.
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May 09
Will Bateman and Hoven
Hoven wanted some photos of Will wearing their sunglasses. Not sure if they wanted to see how marketable the kids face is or what, but Will and I took about 10 min to bang out these photos. Thought I would share the photos and if I can say looks like I matched the quality/style of photos of their ad campaign.
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May 09
Yobeat.com
I have a small check out on yobeat.com right now. They hold a photo contest every week on their site with the viewers voting on their favorite photo. Admittedly I did not submit my best photo, and in the end I lost out to last weeks winner but its great way to have your B and C grade photos get some eyeball time.
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Apr 09
Feb 24 – March 6th
I am really behind on the updates so here are some photos. On the 24th, I went with Jordan Parks to shoot at this weird metal structure. She is a great rider and showed her dedication hitting this thing 25 or more times. On the 25th and 26th I went to the tree stump that over looks truckee. On March 5th, I went into the Mt. Rose Backcountry to shoot a kicker with the Easter Boarder Crew. Finally on March 6th, Mullen loaded up and landed his cliff at ASI.
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- Metal Structure
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- Jordan Parks
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- Truckee Tree
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- Mt. Rose Jump
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- EB Filmer Matt
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- Mullen up on top
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- The Man