This morning I went to my daughters school to shoot some photos for the school website. One was this portrait of the spanish teacher. Not sure why, but I like it.

I wanted to shoot some interesting running photos for my portfolio. So yesterday I headed off to the Nike Employee Store and loaded up on running gear. My awesome make-up artist friend Nicole Wagner is an avid runner and brought a couple of her running partners to the shoot too. I define my style as “real and dramatic” and wanted to set that tone by using real runners as my models. Here are some of my favorite photos. Let me know what you think!

We shot them outside of the Hillsboro library. There is a really cool tunnel that goes under the main road that made for a great background. Towards the end of the shoot the sun came through the trees and looked awesome. So we packed the lights away and just shot available light. Funny how that works sometimes, the simplest light is oftentimes the best light.

I’ve long neglected my business facebook page. But that is now changing. We’ve made some updates, put up some new work and would love it if you “liked” our page. We will post new shoots, favorites from weddings and all kinds of things you might love to see show up in your news feed. Go now!

A couple months ago I shot a bunch of portraits of various Timbers players that would be used for the season tickets, the cover of the season ticket book, the pocket schedules and other various things including a Budweiser poster schedule that is hung up in bars all over town. Scott and Amanda over at Ambient Sky Studio have mentioned in the past wanting to do a little behind the scenes video of one of my shoots so they came along with me and put together this short 2 minute clip that shows shoot. Enjoy!

As with my wedding favorites below, it was really hard to edit a years worth of work down to just 20 or so images. I am a horrible editor of my own work, so these may not be my best per se, but they are the images I like the most from the past 12 months. Some I like because of the story behind them. For example I have a couple photos in there from the 2010 Olympics. Nothing special, but they are meaningful to me because of the road trip my brother and I took to make them. I will never forget sleeping in my truck in a parking garage on Whistler and then snowboarding the next day, stopping along the men’s downhill course and watching Bode Miller win gold. Or the curling match that went into OT and was won by the USA…Like the wedding images, I find my style is always evolving and each year my images take a different look than the last. In my work, I obviously shoot a lot of portraits, so portraits dominate my edit. Some where magazine covers, some where for inside spreads, some were shot for ads, a few head shots or corporate portraits, others at workshops I taught. Had to include a photo of my kid…there are also a lot of self assigned photos, or images I shot for myself while on assignment in this edit. I also shot a lot of sports, but I am super picky about action photos and find most of them really boring. My goal for 2011 is to shoot more interesting live sports images. Again, you can click the image to see a larger view. Let me know what you think!