This summer I had the opportunity to shoot with some amazing runners who live and train here in Santa Fe, New Mexico for part of the year but hail from Kenya. They are among the top 30 runners in the world. Bernard Langat, Aron Rono and Caroline Rotich (pictured above) train in Santa Fe for...
In late May I had the pleasure of working with three members of the Red Bull Air Force team while shooting an assignment for Red Bull. Jon DeVore, Mike Swanson and Miles Daisher were headed to a very remote location in Utah near the Utah/Nevada border to jump off a 3,200-foot cliff. It was my...
hypothermia (noun): the condition of having an abnormally low body temperature, typically one that is dangerously low. Half way across the Beagle Channel, just south of Tierra del Fuego and not too far from the Drake passage, I learned what it really means to be cold. Jim Wedlake, Gabriela and I were in a zodiac...
I am honored to see that one of my images of Danny MacAskill, shot on assignment for Red Bull back in October 2009, was chosen for the “Best of Red Bull Photofiles 2009”. The image was included in a selection of 32 images chosen from thousands and thousands of images shot for Red Bull in...
Nikon has just posted an article on their website that I shot for the Summer 2009 issue of Nikon World Magazine. If you missed it last summer or don’t subscribe to Nikon World, read it online here. The article details some of the trials and tribulations of shooting such a remote and difficult adventure race...
Last fall, I got a call from Men’s Fitness magazine to shoot the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department helicopter search and rescue squad known as Henry 1. I have been holding these photos under my hat for months and now that the article is out I thought I’d put up an extended web gallery of images...
It has been quite a while since I have posted a blog here. As you might guess I have been so busy with work that I haven’t had much time to blog. Between road trips, assignments and other big projects there hasn’t been a whole lot of free time. Recently I shot a few portraits...
Really like the portraiture Michael!
Hey Michael – these are amazing shots – will share with our Whistler Half Marathon fans on facebook. Thanks for taking the time to shoot runners – as a sport it is very under estimated from an award winning photo opportunity perspective.