I’ve had the good fortune and opportunity to make one of the most beautiful drives in the country two times—the first was about seven years ago, but I didn’t have a camera with me. The second time was just a few days ago, and this time I made sure to bring some gear to get a handful of photos of along the way.
The drive I’m talking about is along California’s Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) traveling north from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The 14 photos here were taken on the 165 mile stretch of coastline between Morro Bay and Santa Cruz on May 10, 2012.
I would encourage everyone to make it a point to do a similar drive at some point in their life. Just look at a map for HWY 1 between San Francisco and Morro Bay, plan for a full day, prepare yourself to make a lot of stops, and hit the road!
A few weeks ago I helped organize and run the annual JoMoPro flatland contest in Joplin, Missouri. In addition to writing the sponsorship proposal, building the Web site, laying out the flyer, editing promo videos, and announcing the contest, I did an article for ESPN about the contest and edited an official highlights video from the pro finals. After all was said and done, Flatmatters Online did an interview with me about it all. Check it!
For whatever reason I’ve never really made this public, but each year for the past three years, after going on end-of-the-year vacations I’ve put together travel photography books from my trips—first from Ecuador, then East Africa, and most recently from Southeast Asia. The books have always been personal projects of mine and just good keepsakes from memorable trips. But after placing the order for my most recent on, I figured I’d share this on my blog…
I use a Web site called Blurb.com to print the books and lay them out in Adobe InDesign. It’s a really great system that’s easy to use, the books come out amazing, and it’s actually cheaper to print an entire book than it is if you were to have all the images printed on their own. I only print one copy of each book for myself, and right now, all of them are on my coffee table in my apartment. However, if you want to check out the the books online or buy one for yourself, you can do so from my page on the Blurb Web site. If nothing else, maybe you’ll be inspired to make a book of your own.
Who knows, perhaps later this year I’ll put together a book with some of my best BMX photos from over the years?
Over the past few months I’ve posted more than 15 photo galleries from my travels in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. However, even when I broke down hundreds of images into all those themes and galleries I still had more than 20 photos left over that I wanted to share, so here is the final set of the ones that didn’t fit anywhere else.
After having a quick interview in the very first issue, I now have another small feature in the seventh issue of Yasu “Green-G” Takeo‘s BMX/lifestyle magazine out of Tokyo, Japan, Encounter. This time around Green-G asked a handful of industry insiders and pros, “When did you realize you could make a living from BMX?”
If you ever get the chance to check out a copy of Encounter, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.
While traveling throughout Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia last year I was able to see more beautiful sunrises and sunsets than I could count, so of course I took every opportunity I could to shoot photos of them. From beaches to rivers and from mountains to temples, here are nine of my favorite sunrise and sunset photos I shot in South East Asia.
If you’ve been following my blog at all over the past several months then you know I’ve posted a ton of photos from my trip to South East Asia. Well, today I’m extremely excited to post this gallery because it has some of my favorite photos from the trip of some of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to. Click through and enjoy these 10 incredible images of waterfalls I shot in various parts of Thailand.
About to head to the airport... Cabo, Mexico for the weekend. Looking forward to spending time with my girl and swimming with dolphins! :-)about 2 days agofrom Echofon
