How to Miss a Tackle, by some Seahawk dude.
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Labor Day Means NYC and tennis!
Monfils v Gasquet
Fans cheer on Stan Wawrinka, on his way to defeating third seed, Andy Murray
First time at the Ziegfeld (we saw The American…the theater was the highlight)
Sharapova serves to Wozniacki (reminiscent of one of my favorite images of Venus Williams that I took at the U.S. Open several years ago)
Shauna takes fitness seriously. Both hers and that of the hundreds of rabid fans of Hip-Hop Cycle, her insanely popular spinning class. While she finishes up her PhD at Johns Hopkins, she tortures (ahem, teaches) her east coast devotees at Baltimore’s best gym, Merritt Athletic club. But when she visits home, the West Coast faithful get a chance to take her class at the Equinox Palo Alto location….if they can get there early enough. This week, Shauna was good enough to commandeer a classroom so that I could experiment with some techniques I’d been wanting to try. And hopefully get some nice shots.
Last weekend, a couple of friends and I made the trip to Boulder Colorado to participate in a workshop led by the incredible Tyler Stableford. To say that I love his work would be a huge understatement. I can’t remember in which magazine I first saw his work, but it was a few years ago, when I was just stumbling into photography. If you haven’t already clicked on the link above, you owe it to yourself to spend some time perusing his site. It is amazing.
What I wanted to get out of this workshop were some tips on working with clients and models, some of his processing secrets, and maybe some great shots. But Tyler was so great about taking time to understand where each of us were as photographers and encouraging us to push that boundary. For me, that meant thinking much more about the story that my image composition tells, how each element in an image either enhances or detracts from that story, and developing a process for arbitrating the two. If you cannot already tell, I loved it. I got so much more out of the weekend than I anticipated. And I’m planning to attend Tyler’s next workshop in Arches National Park!
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Can’t help but shake my head and simply say….AMAZING, and that still doesn’t give what I wish I could say justice, because words sometimes just can’t convey the emotion evoked from such images, but that is what my limited vocabulary can come up with…breathtakingly beautiful images.
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Thanks Matt. I appreciate your feedback….especially when it’s positive!!
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Dana, your shots are amazing. Mind blowing. That one of the runner striking the ground coming toward you is epic. well done!
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