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iPhone Friday

Whenever I’m out working on a story to share with you, I’m shooting a bunch of iPhone photos. I’ll share them on the various social circles in realtime so you can have instant access to what is going on. If you want behind the scenes access like this and stay current with future stories, just give our Facebook page a like, follow me on Twitter, or Circle me on G+. Here are the photos I shared from last week’s story, the Bull Riders.

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

iPhone Photography Bull Riding PBR

The Frontier

I’ll be instagr.am (ing) live from The Frontier this weekend in San Diego. You can follow the adventure in real-time here.

Live From San Diego

If you would like to join us on The Frontier, click here to learn how!

Fitness Challenge Update

It has been a couple of weeks from the last check in, so let me catch you up on what I’ve been up to. Diet wise, I have black-listed the tortilla on Chipotle burritos. That is 300 calories I can do without. I have been eating a lot of salads and some good home cooked vegetarian meals. Workout wise I have been doing the normal. A couple nice days have let me get out on the bike a bit. A few 50+ miles rides, mixed in with some intensity on the spin bike have been doing me right. I continue to dial in my strength training via waterman’s workouts and yoga. All in all, things are going well…however I still have a long road ahead of me before the Olukai. This weekend I will be able to get 4 solid days on the open ocean and I hope to complete my first 10 mile stand up paddle. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Contrast

I absolutely love making movies. I just wish they didn’t take so darn long to produce. The shooting alone takes a great deal of time. Then the editing, writing and recording the music, and finally piecing it all together. This movie was in the works for 6 months. I’m sure I could have finished it faster if I focused on it, but I still like to bring you some levity during the week.

Thankfully I don’t have any ‘high power studio execs’ financing my movies, no way would they have let me produce an experimental, lo-fi, super high contrast movie backed by a space-rodeo-symphony soundtrack. I love the freedom of only having to answer to my creative self. However, I wouldn’t mind the box office rewards that come along with blockbuster movies. Until I’m approached by Hollywood to direct the next Transformers, I’m going to maintain my ‘indie filmmaker’ status. We will cross the one billion dollar bridge when we come to it!

About the movie – I’m a bit like Edward Burns (he made Newlyweds for $9000 in 12 days…yep, you read that right) in the fact I make my movies on a shoestring budget. I probably differ from him in the fact that I have too…for me, there is no other budget.

Want proof that you can make a great movie for under $10k? Get Edward Burns’ ‘Newlyweds’ here.

Newlyweds

  • I shot it over the course of 9 days in San Francisco.
  • I used Lightroom to compile the time lapse sequences. I could have used TimeLapse Assembler for a small donation.
  • iMovie (Free w/ a MAC) to edit it.
  • I recorded the music on Garage Band (Free w/ a MAC)
  • I shot it with a used and rather inexpensive Nikon D5100 and Nikon 16-85 VR lens

An Evening Of 4-Wheelin’

Jones Pass At Night

I shot this image last summer when a buddy of mine Rick Louie and I were up exploring the Rocky Mountains. We had hiked up to about 12,000 feet, shot the sunset, and were heading home when we decided to stop and make a few more images. I was well into the exposure when this car started by. At first I was frustrated by its appearance, but upon further review, it turned out to be my favorite image of the night. You just never know what’s going to happen.

Check back tomorrow for my newest movie, ‘Contrast’. This one is a bit experimental.

The Tasting

Castello di Amorosa

Castello di Amorosa is a little winery in the Napa Valley. Apparently the proprietor not only loves his wine, he loves his castles. So much so that he used the materials and artisans from Italy to build a full sized castle in his vineyard to host guests, banquets, wine tastings and jousting tournaments. I’m not totally sure about that last thing, but I’m pretty sure I saw a dragon while we were there.

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American Muscle

The History Of American Muscle

I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed last week series The Bull Riders. I have a big week lined up for everyone, including the debut of my newest movie, ‘Contrast’, so let’s get to it!

If you have been a regular here for a while, you know last year I did a story on a little town called Crescent Valley. It is a mining town smack dab in the middle of the richest counties in the US. During the week I was there, I got to know a lot of the residents. One of them had a cool collection of cars that he restores when he’s not at the mine. He invited me to come by one evening to photograph his shop. What I found was a little history in American muscle cars.

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