New Work

It’s been a busy few months around here and thought I’d share some of the things I’ve been up to.

Recent projects have included Goodyear tire ads, portraits of X-games athletes for Monster energy, traveling on a RedBull tour bus with the BC 1 dancers, shooting in the mud and on the track for Maxxis Tire and making a extraordinary machine look extraordinary for Torchmate. Next month should be interesting also as I head to North Africa to shoot a project for a certain well-known team involved in rally raid racing.

One interesting facet of these jobs included making 20 tons of fake snow for the Goodyear ad shown below.

The week we were shooting in November there hadn’t been any significant snowfall in our area and it was determined that our best bet was to fake it! This was accomplished by a special effects company we hired that used a machine to grind huge blocks of ice into a tube, which was then blown out onto the set. In the end we used two moving trucks worth of snow to get the one shot. We also used air-powered "mortars" to blow snow up into the wheel wells of the truck to add to the action of the shot. The end result is a realistic looking mountain environment created by combining a stock image of snowy trees behind the action shot of our hero truck busting through our fake “snow” bank.

#26 "Diablo Caballo" rides again !

Once again we head south for an epic adventure, the NORRA Mexican 1000 rally. We made many changes to our race vehicle this year including a completely new roll cage, FOX racing shocks and a 32 gallon fuel cell. Some quick plugs for the key people contributing to our program this year:

Jon, James, and Skylar at RDM Offroad for the amazing fab and prep.
Brian Godfrey at FOX Shox for hooking us up with with some killer shocks.
The one and only Tommy Morris who tuned our shock valving making our Bronco handle like a sports car (he was the guy behind some guy named Ivan Stewart and more recently Roger Norman).

To follow our progress click here or check the NORRA site for timing and scoring.
Via con dios! Next stop Cabo!!!

"...on a path where only the devil has been..."

The 2011 Mexican 1000 is a little over a month away and here's how it looked in 1967 (the year before our race vehicle rolled off the assembly line in Detroit).

The 12 hours of Sebring

Every sport has it's premiere event and in the world of sports car racing there are two, the 24 hours of Le Mans in Europe and the 12 hours of Sebring here in America. With several days of support races, qualifying and practice sessions that lead up to the main event on Saturday, thousands annually make the trip to central Florida to camp around the track for days of ear drum busting automobile racing. Because free camping is on a first come basis, some come as much as a month in advance to get the best spot and set up elaborate party headquarters with stages and bars. In contrast to these hard core campers within the infield’s “green park” free areas, there are pay campsites occupied by massive coaches that have the closest views of the racing. Not many motor racing venues can get you closer than a Sebring trackside campsite which are mere feet from the track and in some cases have only a small waist high fence separating the racing from the revelry. The biggest decision as a spectator might be whether to view the racing in front of you, or to turn around and watch the constant flow of inebriated fans that circle the venue cruising in custom designed vehicles and costumes. The party lasts all week, day and night, with the culmination being the 12 hour endurance race on Saturday that races into the darkness. This was my first time to Sebring, but I think it is a tradition that I may join for years to come.

Baja Quick Trip

I recently went on a two day Wide Open Excursion up the east cape of Cabo San Lucas with Jason Harper from Bloomberg

New Cover

Rick Huseman was named Dirtsports Magazine's driver of the year and he's featured on the February cover that I shot.

Shaun White and BFG

BFGoodrich Tires announced they will be teaching Shaun White how to drive and film it all for the world to watch. The first couple episodes have been released here along with still photography shot by me.