SP Photography: 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Days and Days of Faces

Well it definitely has been a while sense I have made a post so go easy on me. I have so much to catch my page up with its crazy, to start I have found a mentor, Patrick Orton. He is a Professional Outdoor Photography and grew up in my town, he actually went to school with my sisters. He takes KILLER photos, I really can't even begin to describe how much he has taught me over the months that I have been his student. It has been a huge blessing to get the chance to learn and shoot with him, I really believe it will and has already helped me grow with my photography and branch out in connections.
Summer has come and gone and skiing has finally come back around for another season! I am so excited to be back on the hill and shredding and shooting so my plans are to get this blog and a Flirckr account up and running. In the meantime heres a summer sum-up, enjoy.

Face: Eli Furman

Location: Mt. Hood, OR

Face: Hailey Cecie

Location: Mt. Hood, OR

Face: Taylor Pace

Location: Mt. Hood, OR

Face: Sammy Jo Pitts

Location: family river cabin Sandpoint, ID

Face: Trevor Miller

Location: family river cabin

Face: some kid shreddin

Location: Mt. Hood, OR

Face: Professional Skier, Cam Riley

Location: Mt. Hood

Back: Hailey Cecie

Location: Mt. Hood, OR

Face: Sammy Jo Pitts

Location: family river cabin

Face: your's truly

Horse: Lacey Jay

RIP (1993-2012)

Face: Sammy Jo Pitts

Location: Sandpoint, ID

Face: Sammy Jo

Location: Sandpoint skate park

Face: Lucas Miller

Location: Schweitzer Mountain, Sandpoint ID

Back: Patrick Orton

Location: Sandpoint, ID

Faces: Brian and Liz Peters

Location: Sandpoint

Face: Brian and Liz Peters, Diesel, Axle, and Dasiy

Location: Sandpoint, ID

Faces: Hailey Cecie and Me

Location: Sandpoint

Face: Hailey Cecie

Location: Sandpoint

Face: your's truly

Location: Sandpoint

Face: me

Location: Sandpoint

Face: Noah Armstrong

Location: Sandpoint Skate Park

Face: Jesse Sellers

Location: Dover, ID

Friday, May 25, 2012

Two weeks ago I was called by a lady who wanted a graffiti painting done in her sports training center for highschoolers and she needed it done in two weeks. I am more of a person who is good at drawing more than painting so I was a little nervous, it'd been a while sense I had painted last, but I needed the money and I knew it was a great opportunity. I had two days to get some sketches, which I found to be alot harder to come up with under this much pressure but one was finally created. I met with the ladies, Angi and Jen, and showed them a sketch, I told them the story behind the lion I had drawn and how it stood for a skier who was a huge inspiration and had passed a while ago, his name was CR Johnson and he was very close with Tanner Hall. CR was said to have the heart of a lion, he had had a major head injury and had 10% chance of walking. Not only did he walk, but he regained his place as a professional skier. Angi and Jen loved it and I was set to start painting the next day. I was nervous because I wouldnt be able to trace the sketch onto the wall I just had to go at it. When I have people with high expectations in my work there was going to be no way I could let them down. I started with the lion and worked my way across the wall ending with writing like a lion next to the painting and signing my name of corse. I finished today in two hours after finishing up the last graffiti word and signing my name. This was a big accomplishment for me and I am proud of my work. These photos were taken by my good friend Kristen.

the sketch

me painting

10 and a half hours or 6 days later and I'm finally done

paint hands

Kristen getting artistic

I'm excited to show this picture of me to my mom.

Parker asking me questions.

This is for you CR ski in peace.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Its crazy how fast time flys by as you get older. I am only 16 and yet it seems like as soon as I blink my eyes its three weeks later and I'm making new memories and even father through the school year.
I went to Colorado for USASA nationals with some friends in April, we were there for a week and it went by way to fast. I had always wanted to go to CO and now all I can think about is going back. I took alot of photos in CO it was crazy how many people were there. They all killed it. It was awesome to see all these kids with so much talent from all over bringing their style and skill to one mountain to compete in nationals.

The competitors were packed in for practice all day.

This is my friend troy, he and his family were the ones who took me, his sister Hailey got 8th in the nation at the comp. Troy couldnt compete because of a broken shoulder.

I wore my new jiberish flannel the whole time, it is one of my favorite things I got on the trip along with some things I got on our stop in Breckenridge.

This is me in the lodge at copper, the comp was there but we were staying in keystone. My friend Grafton from Spokane was at the comp competing it was fun skiing with him there. My friend from Candada, Jessy was there along with a few more kids I knew from spokane.

This is grafton

We skied with a couple of kids from Vermont, Jack and Declan they were amazing skiers.

this is declan he is 16

We stayed in Denver our first day there. I was so stoked to get to go to the Jiberish store I never thought I would actually get to go to their store. We were there for about three hours and ended up talking with one of the owners and creators of the brand.