Camelback Mountain: take 3

This time, we got to the top. It's a strenuous hike, but the top is worth the effort.

Pick-A-Part

The best for a junkyard, ever.

AZ Roller Derby

On thing I missed when I left North Carolina was Roller Derby. I looked into heading up to Albuquerque for a Duke City Derby match, when I was in Clovis, but it never seemed to work out. Now in Phoenix, I found the Arizona Roller Derby and headed out for the league championship.

Not quite trash the dress

Last we Arielle and I did a late night pool photo shoot. Next time it will be during magic light and I'll have an aquarium for underwater shots.




Update:
You can find more of my wedding images and wedding photography blog at:

de L'oeil Photography - Documentary Wedding Photography

Hiking Camelback

Phoenix is pretty flat. It's not Clovis flat but it's pretty flat. That doesn't mean there isn't terrain around. See, Phoenix is in a valley and surrounded by mountains in every direction. There are several mountains in town. They're not the Appalachian Mountains but they are mountains. Because we have outdoor activities and it doesn't smell like cow poop, Arielle and I have started hiking on the weekends. Last weekend, we headed to Camelback Mountain. It looks as this will become a weekly hike to get in shape before we head out for longer weekend trips.

Phoenix First Friday

Arielle and I went out for First Friday a couple weeks back. We didn't stop at half of the galleries around and we still had a full evening.

A view from Phoenix

It's been a slow month. I haven't done much shooting or editing of what I did shoot. This is something from the end of July, shot as I was leaving my apartment.

Heading West, part 2

It's a little over due, but it's here. The second part of my two part series on moving to Phoenix.


Until this trip, I would have went left, to Albuquerque..


The mountain is a sign we were coming up to Flagstaff. It's at around 7000 feet elevation. Phoenix is around 1000 and 120 miles south.The entire drive is through the steepest mountains we crossed on the trip. One in particular I had my foot to the floor and the truck was barely able to stay at 35 mph.



We got into town about 11:30 and got to the hotel about 12:30 am and were in bed by 1. We were up at 5 and over to the apartment about 6 am. It ended up getting up at 114 the day we moved in. Welcome to Phoenix.

Heading West, part 1.

Taking a road trip with pets can be an interesting event. Especially when it's a cat. From my experience dogs are easier to travel with.

We headed out from Clovis Friday morning. I had the truck with Oops at my side. Arielle had her 3 in the Toyota. Now Oops has done her share of traveling. I got her as a kitten in Charlotte before I brought her to Raleigh. While in Raleigh she took several trips to Greensboro and lived in 3 different places before we headed out to Clovis. Her biggest problem is being in the carrier. If she's free to roam around on the trip, she calms down. She actually likes watching the outside go by.




Arielle let her 3 roam free most of the trip. She also had enough room for a litter box in the back seat. A littler box in a car on a trip is a good idea with 3 cats roaming, but the minute it gets used, you have to stop and scoop. It just so happened when we stopped it was in gorgeous light an hour outside of Flagstaff.

I used to...

be on the schedule.

work here.

sleep here.

live here.

Colorado Springs Trip: day 2

The second day of our trip we slept in late, then headed to Denver for the Cherry Blossom Festival.


There, Arielle decided it would be cool to eat yellow snow.




On the way back, Arielle watches as the world ends.

Colorado Springs Trip: day 1

We took a break form packing and headed up to Colorado Springs to visit some friends for the weekend. After driving all night Friday, we were pretty wiped on Saturday. So we decided to take it easy and go to the lake for some sun and relaxation.

Where is Andy's Head..

with new stealth technology.

Clovis News-Journal: The Big Boys Rodeo

Well almost. Before the rodeo they help the rodeo encounter. It was for non rodeo kids to get a taste of what it's like to do rodeo events. This was followed by the pro rodeo. It was kind of weird shooting this, since it felt exactly the same as it did last year. Pretty much everything, including the jokes from the rodeo clown, was the same. I felt like I did a good job of not getting the same photos as I did last year. It was partly because I see differently than I did last year. It's interesting to shoot the same event in back to back years. It kind of makes you reflect on the past year as a photographer.

Clovis News-Journal: Little Buckaroo Rodeo

Last week was rodeo week. It was kicked off by the Little Buckaroo Rodeo. Now the Little Buckaroo Rodeo differs from the Junior Rodeo. The Junior Rodeo is like the real Rodeo just with kids 8-18. They do the same events but use steers and calves instead of bulls and broncs.The Little Buckaroo Rodeo is for kids 4-12. The events are more geared towards little kids and are rodeo inspired.

New Mexico Sky: coming back from Rodeo year 2

I finished shooting the Little Buckaroo Rodeo and headed back to the office. As I was crossing the famous Prince St. overpass I started firing away.

Clovis News-Journal: Features

Here are a couple of features from the past couple weeks. I feel like I'm starting to come out of a creative lull. I'm producing about 1-2 photos I like a week. I consider this to be about average.

The first one is from the carnival that came to town a couple weeks ago. The last one is a biker event last Saturday.

Photo of the Day

No, it wasn't taken by a Abq Trib photographer. It was taken by Oded Balilty for the Associated Press, but it did run in the Trib.


http://www.abqtrib.com/photos/2007/jun/01/5816/

enjoy.. I did.