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Fritts Photo and Fitz and the Tantrums in Spin

Justin Fritts — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:51:45 +0000

So I got to work with popchips again, always fun, and this time to go get some photos of Fitz and the Tantrums just enjoying some popchips at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO. Well, the photos made it into Spin Magazine, or at least on to their website, no word on whether they’ll go into a print issue or not yet. See it here!

http://www.spin.com/gallery/outside-lands-gets-crunched-popchips?page=1#main

And a couple more bonus shots. Fitz and the Tantrums were great, nice and relaxed, very cool to meet them.

Playing a little chip toss.

Mmmm, try this flavor!

Bulleit Bourbon at Interstate Kitchen and Bar

Justin Fritts — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:06:35 +0000

So Bulleit Rye (a really delicious rye whiskey) can hardly be found here in Denver right now but it just so happens that there was a wonderful dinner hosted by Interstate Kitchen and Bar here in Denver that I got to attend in its honor. The food at Interstate was very good and and bourbon complimented it well. With that said, let’s get to the photos.

Awesomely done soup of the day

Bulleit and Interstate Together

More through after the break as always.

Raising a glass

Awesome Food Number 1

Awesome Food Number 2

Spring Back to Vail / Captain Morgan

Justin Fritts — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:19:07 +0000

So sadly the majority of the snow season is over, probably no more snowboarding for me even though A-Basin is probably still in decent shape. I did get to close the season out in style though at Vail for the Spring Back to Vail Festival which was great! Captain Morgan was on the mountain to help keep spirits high in the dark times of the countdown to closure and to help promote and get the word out about the pond skimming competition on Sunday.

I got to follow the Captain around and get some photos, including one in which he actually got the Captain Pose while in the air, it was great!

Then on Sunday I got to go to the Pond Skimming Competition which was amazing. I’ve never been to one but it’s quite shocking how much skill it must take to do. You hit a jump which launches you up in the air and then you land on the water. Gotta have enough speed to make it the rest of the way and hopefully have some experience with water skiing.

The Captain held a competition to see who wanted to dress up as a Captain and take on the mountain. About ten people wanted to take part and take the Captain’s place. The Captain held a vuvuzela blowing competition, a pose off competition and then a quiz about what you think “your best night out” is. Of course the Captain is all about drinking responsibly and dropped a few hints about it, two people picked up on the hints but Jimmy took home the prize. Jimmy got dressed up quickly by the Captain and the Morganettes in the Captain suit and climbed the hill. If that wasn’t enough he totally succeeded at crossing the pond having never done it before and then pulled the Captain pose when back on dry land! Youtube video here (sorry about the shakiness, it’s my video but no tripod).

Photos of the fun event below.

Captain Pose in the Air

Crown Rodeo for the Stock Show

Justin Fritts — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:04:56 +0000

For the past few years Crown Royal has been sponsoring events at venues around the National Western Stock Show in Denver, CO. I did not know this until fairly recently but cowboys love Crown Royal (at least some of them do). Crown has Stock Show themed giveaways and the girls dress up like cowgirls. All around fun for all.

The Grizzly Rose Loves Crown Royal

A tray of Crown Black is a beautiful thing

Now may I suggest to those whisky fans out there, Crown Black with a single ice cube is the way to go.

Crown Royal chaps on a Crown Royal table

Nathaniel Rateliff and some band that was not Paper Bird

Justin Fritts — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:36:57 +0000

So these are some “old” photos, from all the way back in December. I know, I’ve been slacking, truth be told I have plenty more history to blog but this one seemed like a fun break from all the corporate posts. This was a gig for Nathaniel Rateliff’s Christmas (Holiday?) show in Boulder, CO. It was a great show and I got some really fun photos from the gig. Chuck Roy MC’d he event and Josh Blue did some hilarious standup.

Overall a great night, except what I found out was that Boulder really shuts down over Christmas break. I met up with some friends and had great plans of delicious food and drink before the show began only to find out that half of the restaurants in Boulder are closed when the students are gone. Oh well, Mountain Sun Brewery came through for us even when other places failed.

Beautiful music was made

Everyone was having fun

Chuck doing his MC'ing

Josh Blue coming on stage, don't know whether or not he was making a face.

That band that was not Paper Bird

Captain Morgan Snow Daze

Justin Fritts — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:00:36 +0000

So I got to go up to Vail and take photos for Captain Morgan. It was during Vail Snow Daze and I got paid to go snowboard for half a day and take photos. Then I got to go to the Dummy Demolition Derby. All around a very fun day. The Captain is holding a drive to get one million poses photographed. For every pose uploaded Captain Morgan will donate $1. You can see more on their Facebook page.

Here are some of the photos from the day on the slopes.

Captain Pose in Skis

More after the break…

Captain on the lift with the Morganettes

Captain Jump!

Through the Trees!

Demolition Derby Fireworks with the Captain and the Morganettes

A large mass pose worth some serious cash!

Seriously good times!

Tebow Follow Up

Justin Fritts — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:17:18 +0000

So the photos I took for Nike have made the rounds. I found them posted on a couple of blogs around the net, pretty much all Tebow. Have a look around, I google’d Tebow Boom Box and came up with just these couple of links:

http://www.solecollector.com/niketraining/?p=2513

http://www.shoespimps.com/shoes/tim-tebow%E2%80%99s-florida-rivalry-boom-box.html

http://www.topflightkix.com/index.php/tim-tebow-florida-rivalry-boom-box.html

And of course a link to my original post here

Cuervo Cue the Epic Night Facebook goes Live

Justin Fritts — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:09:49 +0000

So after a long wait the Cue the Epic night Facebook page has gone live, I know, that’s what the title said. I’ve been telling all the random people in the bars for months that their photos can be seen on a billboard in Times Square and will eventually be on Facebook. Well, today is the day: it can be found here: http://apps.facebook.com/epicpics/ and you can vote on and submit your own Epic Pics. Right now 8 of the Top 10 were taken by yours truly and I’m pretty excited about that. I’m sure that will change very quickly as people start submitting their own but I’m happy about it.

Go, upload, vote, have fun.

8 of 10 isn't bad, sadly they stretched most of them weird, they were sized for the billboard and stretched for the website.

Paul and Kelly

Justin Fritts — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:49:00 +0000

So Paul and Kelly needed some photos taken to celebrate their engagement. They picked out a place down by the Platte River in Denver. It was a great location for photos, cityscapes, railroad tracks, the river, bridges, some green grass still, lots of areas to play with. Paul is in to photography himself and lately has been enjoying vintage cameras. Because of this I decided to play with some colorization on a few of the photos.

Black and White with Denver in the Background

Paul and Kelly with a bridge in the background and the bling in the foreground

My personal colorized favorite

Nike Boom Boxes

Justin Fritts — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:36:36 +0000

So I got a gig this week, kinda last minute, real quick, real cool. The gig was this, go to the Nike Ambassador’s house Tuesday morning, hop in a Lincoln Towncar complete with a driver, leather seats and bottled water. Ride out to the Broncos training facility and take some photos of Ryan Clady and Tim Tebow receiving their Nike Boom Boxes. Pretty sweet. The Nike BOOM Box contains shoes, gloves, a shirt, belt and a card written for that specific box and college. They are very limited, less than 100 made in total and each one is individually numbered and personalized with the person’s alma matter. What a fun shoot and what a cool gift from Nike.

Tebow receiving his Nike Boom Box

Tebow Holding up his Gator Gloves

Clady Holding up his Boom Box