New Photos July 18, 2011

Tomato Fight at 18th and Logan

Another Round of Photos

 

 

 

 

Favorite Photos from the last Year

The samples below are of work covering events, sports and portraits that I have photographed in and around the Denver area as well as New York, New York. A POV video from a powder day at Copper Mountain Resort just after Martin Luther King Jr Day is linked here.

FIBArk Freestyle Jam Kayaker, June 2010

Metropolitan State College winger Dani Rylan drives towards the goal in a club hockey game against Denver University.

A couple performs a traditional Mexican dance at Cinco De Mayo Denver 2010.

Chicago Fire goalie Andrew Dykstra kicks a goal kick in a game against the Colorado Rapids 2010.

A snowboarder jumps in the terrain park at Durango Mountain Resort January 2011.

An artist paints the New York skyline from Central Park, September 2010.

A man is overwhelmed by heat from chili at a chili cook-off at Cinco De Mayo Denver 2010.

Omar Cummings takes a shot on goal in a Colorado Rapids game against Chivas USA.

Mitch Gillman from team Line Skis throws a trick off the Denver Big Air jump in Civic Center Park January 2010.

A rescue diver swims across the Arkansas River in Salida, Colorado at The FIBArk Festival 2010.

Colorado Rapids vs. FC Dallas in MLS Championship

As the summer cooked away into October...and November, along did the Rapids. For a team picked to finish fairly low in the MLS standings, they defied the odds and put together a great run to get to the MLS Cup Championship against FC Dallas, another team that was slated to sit on the sidelines in the post season. Now, both teams find themselves in the final in Toronto and the Rapids are on the verge of bringing another championship to Denver.

I also was excited to see the addition of an old classmate of mine Brain Mullan to the team part way through the season. Though it has been 13 years since he took the field and won a Soccer State Championship for Regis Jesuit High School, it was great to see him return to Denver and have another chance to win a professional championship.

To the fans that 'Bleed Burgundy' this season, Hail To THEE!

Since Memorial Day...

Colorado's snow has melted into our streams. The cliff bands of granite shine as the long sun makes its way through the sky, shimmering light from small quartz and mica crystals into the thin air. And as the snow melts, the water rises, and a new season of shenanigans starts and the hooligans come out to play. This year was no exception. The 62nd FibARK festival in Salida, Colo brought out the crazies, elite kayakers, families and of course lots of dogs. What river festival doesn't have dogs?

Never mind that though. This year, the action was hot in the cool Arkansas River water with a freestyle jam session entertaining the crowd before the annual hooligan race.

A Memorial Day Weekend in Colorado

Lifting the gates that block the highest paved road in America, CDOT welcomed the many visitors to the Mount Evans Wilderness on Friday, May 28th. Cars, trucks and bikes alike meandered their way up the 14 mile long road, most of it above treeline, to see snowy boulder fields, marmots and the top of the Front Range. I decided to wait one day, to not strain myself amongst the possibility of yelling at the tourists waiting for their first photo of a mountain goat. It didn't matter, it happened. However, Saturday was cooler, with a bit of wind and clouds rolling up the steep face of Mount Evans at 14,264 feet.

Trying to force myself upon the summit I saw the dogs and families gasping for breath on the snow laid path to the top, I decided, nah! 'I'll go make some other foot prints in the snow today.' So I drove down a couple of twisting miles to a lower elevation and parked my Subaru around 13,500.

Walking south out along a long saddle, I found solitude amongst the tundra. Venturing towards a rock outcropping, I saw a new perspective of Mount Bierstadt, Evans' sister 14er. The clouds were drifting past, the wind scrambling up the escarpments of rock and ice, yet the day was calm or at least calming.

Casually strolling back across the saddle towards the road, I smelled and saw the moist air, which had lingered on the plains in and around Denver, wafting up the from the valley, dancing amongst the rocks, snow and heavens. The upward thrusting of the clouds mixing with the dry and cool mountain air cascading in and around me was like a passionate dance amongst lovers moving to the rhythms of samba.

However nice the day was, spending it amongst the clouds, I had other obligations to attend to that night. They came in the form of Conor Casey, Omar Cummings and the now hot Colorado Rapids.

Like most nights out at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, the crowd was a little raucous, the wind was whipping around the field from a thunderstorm and everyone was hoping that the Rapids would not become the summer version of the Nuggets and Avalanche; losers.

They weren't. Beating the Seattle Sounders 1-0 made for a nice victory, especially a Western Conference opponent. Hanging out on the field with Jessica Taves and having Shaun Schafer in the stands, writing out a story for their website enterprise, I felt like this summer is all fun and no work. Internship over, shooting for myself, however, I am still trying for good shots, portfolio material if possible, from the a sport I had placed on a back burner some 14 years ago. Now that I am 30 and have the college bug all over again, it is and was important to be on the field for sporting sake, along with my own. The smell of the grass, the lights shining down from the corners of the stadium, the crowd

The night was capped off by Casey's goal some time in the second half, ensuring a victory for a match that might not mean much now but felt like it would later.