The B Sides

This evening I had an assignment to photograph some autistic children taking part in an art class. The light was just perfect, everywhere the kids weren't. So I decided to spend a few minutes making a few images of this wonderful tree with a swing on it. This also gave the kids a little time to get into their art projects without me being this looming presence trying to photograph them. So as I started to make pictures of this tree, a little girl showed up and started playing on the swing, and I thought to myself, wow this can't get any better, well I was wrong. Out of nowhere came this little guy who turned to the camera at just the right moment and gave me this great face. These images are representations of why some of my favorite work has nothing to do with the things I am paid to photograph.

Simple kind of shot

Today I shot a portrait of a local high school wrestler who is going to compete at the state meet. I used two lights and had him sit in a chair in-front of the teams logo in the wrestling room. It was a simple way to make an interesting image, anyway here's my favorite shot from today. To view the full story go here

Girls CIF Water Polo Finals

I spent yesterday covering two local high schools water polo teams in both of their final games. Here are a couple shots from the days coverage, and to view all of them click here

CIF Finals

Every fall, and spring I end up traveling out of town to cover local high school athletes compete in CIF finals for their respective sports. Yesterday I covered two such events, one was a cross country final at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, the other was a division two water polo final match, in Irvine. I'm not gonna go into the details of the events, other than the fact that it was raining all day, and I got completely soaked covering the cross country, it did manage to stop raining for the water polo though. Anywho here are some images, hope you enjoy, and to view more from these events go here.

Wild one's

Where the wild things are, is one of the most iconic children stories from the past fifty years, and the other day I covered a group of first graders reciting the book word-for-word. I am normally terrified to cover any type of performance by elementary school students, not because they're bad, but because they're awful! These kids on the other hand did an amazing job. They read the book and at the end, all the kids jumped off stage and ran around their parents in the audience acting like the little wild things they are. Here's a link to a couple more shots from this wild event!

Dirty day

Here are a few images from an event I covered about a month ago, it was the Lake Elsinore Gladiator run. Basically it was a mud run, where runners got a chance to soak themselves with a bath of nice refreshing mud after running a 5k. I personally think a dip in the Jacuzzi would suffice but some people really love mud. Anyway here is a link to more images from the event, enjoy! Mud run

Its gettin hot out there

Well its that wonderful time of year again, when school starts, the nights start getting cooler, and the hills of California catch fire. Today was the first real brush fire I have covered this season, but there have been a few already. Its always sad to see the destruction these blazes can cause, but luckily this fire was limited to consuming brush. Here are a few images from the fire that burned around 85 acres near the La Creasta, Santa Rosa Plateau area.







To view more images from the fire click Here