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A Star On Top

For the first time in quite a while this photographer actually make some photographs last night. For months now, work for me has been about producing the MotoMatters calendar and our “Fast Things” t-shirt, printing landscape images for display in one of the Northstar at Tahoe shops, and filling orders for the Rossi glowing brakes […]

When All Else Fails…

You can always rely on Tunnel View for a great Yosemite photo, right? Well, not always, as it turns out. Even the perspective on Yosemite Valley that Tunnel View offers can be rendered fairly un-photogenic by bad light. Sorry, but even this old faithful spot is subject to the same weakness as every other spot […]

Yosemite Valley from Sentinel Dome

When I was in graduate school one of my professors said something like, “The thing about Shakespeare is that in spite of all the people who say how great he is, he really is pretty good.” I was reminded of this comment at one point last week as I was thinking that Yosemite is the […]

Fire In The Desert

The story of Rossi’s glowing brake discs For a year I had a unique photograph. As far as I could tell, after searching everywhere I could think of, I was the only one who’d gone to the entrance of Turn 1 at Losail in 2009 and captured the glowing brakes as the MotoGP riders as […]

Ritual

We had a pleasant but strange drive back from the track just before 5AM this morning. The sun was rising to our left, barely perceptibly at first, but the soft blow glow on the horizon grew stronger as we approached downtown Doha. I was sorry we’d missed the morning call to prayer: I quite like […]

Working Late

The demise last year of the Friday morning practice session means that day 1 in Qatar doesn’t start until well into the evening, and with one practice session per class we were done and heading back to the media center just before midnight. BMW is a series sponsor of MotoGP, and Losail has the nicest […]

In the club, at least for now…

Instead of staying in a hotel this year, I’m sharing an apartment or sorts (it’s a room in a Residence Hotel) with a fellow photographer, Andrew Wheeler, whose work has probably had more influence on me than any other sports shooter. I’ve known him in person for several years and it was largely his offer […]

Qatar Redux

I used to think that San Francisco to Europe was a long flight. But San Francisco to Qatar? When you get to Europe, you’re almost halfway there. From take-off at SFO to landing in Doha (with the odd stay on he plane lay-over in Riyadh): 23 hours of travel time. To make that trip you […]

Back in the saddle…

It’s almost that time again! The 2010 Grand Prix season starts in just under two weeks at the Losail International Circuit in Doha, Qatar, and I’m very excited to be returning to this unique place for the season opener. It’s going to be great to be track-side and in the paddock of the highest level […]

Setting Moon

The setting moon was visible from where I’d been shooting for about 7 minutes this morning as the clouds were changing pretty quickly. This morning’s colors in the sky were subtle but quite nice. The amount of snow that had melted since last week allowed me to reach several new spots, such as this one […]