Sorry to the readers, I don’t know why I haven’t been able to find time to update the blog. Well I have a general idea, I was recently married, wedding and honeymoon planning is lengthy and stressful, but the posts really don’t take that long, it’s just fallen to the back burner. I have plenty to blog about. So with all that stated, I think I should get started again, and now to it.
Alright, short website related announcement. I’ve had enough of Godaddy, too much down time, too long of responses, too many crashes, too slow. I don’t know how many times I’ve had people email me or tell me the that it’s down or incredibly slow, dialup isn’t great for a photography website. I’ve tried to tell Godaddy about it but they tell me everything is fine and I’m sick of arguing with them that there isn’t so I’ve moved on.
Onward, u2-web.com hopefully will do better for me. I moved everything last night and hopefully all is working. If something isn’t or you find some broken links please email me or comment on this post. Thank you, hopefully all the web woes will be solved!
So this is a quick post mostly in response to a call from the Crown Royal Facebook page. They’re asking for some of people’s most recent pics. This is one that I took back in March that I’m especially proud of. I think I like this style and am going to do a few more like it and will post a how to and my completed photos.
Crown XR Bottle
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
More from the event after the break!
Alice 105.9 holds a yearly event where they invite bands to come and perform “Au Natural,” acoustic sets here in Denver. It’s a very cool event, this year Hanson, Default, Parachute and Andy Grammer all performed (you can get some audio and more info here).
Outside the event before it started I landed a gig through Pop Chips, which if you haven’t tried, you should. The gig was take photos of concert attendees in front of the step and repeat wall. Pop Chips brought the wall, Pop Chips models and props for people to pose with. It was a lot of fun all around.
Oh and if you’d like to see more photos head on over to the Alice 105.9 facebook page. The ones from the step and repeat are mine, not the ones from inside the show.
Slacker and Steve
A wizard ninja and a cowboy Charlies Angel with money?
I don’t know when the next lunar eclipse is off the top of my head, I’m sure I could google it but I think it’s more likely that as it approaches the news will be sure to tell me. One of my most popular posts on this site is my post about night photography and shooting the stars.
Shooting a lunar eclipse is a challenge, I didn’t know this until recently. I decided to go as big as I could with my zoomed photos, my 70-200 w/ my 1.4x teleconvertor, a whopping 280mm. I thought that would get me close, ha! Let me give you an idea of how close 280mm got me:
Lunar Eclipse Full Photo
As you can see, not very close at all. So, how did I get results.
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
So I was lucky enough to attend the Ciroc New Years Eve Party in Vail, CO. I wasn’t the photographer, just a guy who got to hang out and drink but of course, I took my camera anyway. The party was hosted a Bol in Vail, a fancy bolling alley with really great drinks and small plates. We had quite a good time just hanging out and having fun. I was glad to not be working on NYE.
Ciroc on the Bar
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
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…