I visited with Dion Giolito at his Reno cigar shop for the 2016 July/August issue of Cigar Aficionado.
MayPac Redux for ESPN The Magazine
Catching up on past work….The May 2015 Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight was billed as the fight of the century. On assignment for ESPN The Magazine, I spent the day on the Las Vegas Strip with tourists in town for the fight hype. These were a few of my favorites from the day.
Hood to Coast 2015
Last weekend 12 friends descended on PDX to load into two vans and journey 198 miles on foot through sun, torrential rain and gale force winds from Mt. Hood to Seaside, Oregon in a little under 33 hours. It was epic, non-stop fun with a stellar group of photographers, a few spouses, and a few of Craig’s old friends and family as we ran the mother of all relays, Hood to Coast, as Team Awesome Sauce.
It was my first trip away from my 15-month-old son, who is still breastfeeding, and the longest I’ve ever been away from my 3 year old. I had been torn about following through on the race for months and being away from the babes, even after signing on a year earlier, but I am so thankful I did.
Hood to Coast was my version of a radical vacation:
/ Great friends ( Lisa, Bruce, Craig, Sandy & Chris – for the linkable photogs)
/ Adventure (that time we went to the wrong exchange and Bruce had to wait a half an hour, or I ran 5 miles at 3am in a hard downpour in the pitch black with a lightening storm as my guide)
/ Grueling physical feats (we each ran 14-20 miles across three legs in under 24 hours. The hardest part was running 5-7 miles and jumping straight into the van. Over. And over. And over.)
/ Pacific Coast Pie Company (surprise bday pie for Bruce between legs 1&2,) Voodoo Donuts (thanks to Tim at exchange 6,) and Dutch Bros
/ Oregon. Oh I have missed you and your people.
/ Just enough photo geeking to feel at home
This cartoon pretty much sums it up.
Here is a diptych’d glimpse of our rolling running party, made with my cell phone. You have to check out Sandy’s pics and write up on the adventure too!
Lobsters for United Airlines
Lots of work to catch up. Always. This was for United Airlines’ first class magazine, Rhapsody. Turns out working with the royalty of lobsters makes for nervous chefs and PR reps. You have to check out the prices on these babies. Glad everyone was happy with the results! I was hungry for lobsters for weeks.
Shamir for the New York Times
I had the pleasure of photographing Shamir for the New York Times last month. From his apartment in North Las Vegas to the pig farm he grew up down the street from. The story is here. There is definitely something special about Shamir. I’m looking forward to seeing where this talent goes from here. Here’s the tearsheet and a few outtakes. It happened to be take your kid to work day, so I had the youngest assistant Shamir had ever met. James styled it.