Dew Tour 2009 - BMX Vert Finals

Here is the last event (BMX Vert) from this weekend's Dew Tour stop in Salt Lake City. The photographs turned out better than I had hoped. A bunch of photogs, including me, were down on the floor the whole event, never up on the deck. I did not have access to the arena's lighting system and this event was not covered by MTV2 or NBC, so no TV lighting. Needless to say it was dark in there and to add to it, the black curtain and the riders wearing black. I cranked up the ISO to 1250 to 1600 with f/2.8 on my 70-200 and got some good shots, but the grain and noise still made it into my shots. My 18-200 was too slow and a SB800 did not throw enough light to make it work.

Dew Tour 2009 - FMX Jam

Here is slide show from the FMX Jam. The photographers were originally placed in an awful spot behind the podium and shooting into the sun. With a little persuasion by the best photogs in the world, the officials got a bunch of us got access to an empty scissor lift that gave us a much better angle and the sun to our back. I wish someone took a picture of us crammed onto the lift, the photog geek hang out. Enjoy.

Dew Tour 2009 - BMX Park

I got a press pass to shoot the 2009 Dew Tour Toyota Challenge this weekend through Shutterstock. Below is a sideshow mainly of the BMX Park and a few BMX dirt as well. I am working on getting the FMX Jam together then the BMX Vert. There was not enough time to get the skate park or vert, maybe next year.

Here is a short video created for free at Animoto. One has to pay to get a longer video (more pictures). There is also a service for professional photographers to create HD video to burn to DVD. It was amazing how fast the video was created, literally in minutes. They have linked with all the major photo sharing sites to get your images so your upload is also minimal. They have their own music library, or you can upload your own. In all, registration and created was under 10 minutes. One can get the html link to embed in a website or blog, send to YouTube or email. Enjoy

Impact Soccer - U7

Here is a slideshow from this Saturday's game. Click on image to be taken to the gallery on my website.

Highland Mighty Mite Football - Slide Show

My website host (SmugMug) has a new feature were one can create a slideshow of a gallery and they create the code that can simply be pasted into another application. The slideshow below only took a minute to create. If you click on the slideshow or image it will then take you to the gallery. Its something new. It might lead to some more blog posts.

Last week's game (Highland vs Alta Mighty Mite) can be seen here on my website.