A final congrats to all racers this year. Awesome job on the trails - thanks for being colorful & photogenic. The weather was great and hopefully you all had as much fun as we did - of course I was covered with a lot less sweat and mud than y’all were… In total with 5 folks shooting for Brockit, we ended up with very complete coverage. I love clicking through the beginning of the race which was shot from 3 different angles, in chronological order. Fun! 2860 images in total with the addition late last night of 723 images from intern Rebecca who covered the bridge crossing and the finish line with her D300. Nice job!
— UPDATE (again) —
Finally wrestled Greg’s disk away from Christine at the KBC and shots are uploading as I drift off to sleep. This will bring the total to 2137 images online, with intern Rebecca’s bridge and finish line shots to upload this weekend. Phew…
— UPDATE —
Photos are uploading to the storefront as I type. There is a single gallery with a chronological order to the photos and each you will notice has a tag in the filename indicating the photographer with credit for the shot.
AB = Allison, AJ = Adam, CS = Chris, EA = Emily, GM = Greg, RF = Rebecca
Images are free for medium resolution download (please thank your race organization & Christine Young!) and high-res as well as any physical prints are available for purchase through the site. Enjoy, and thank you!
A quick congratulations to all the racers in this year’s chain drive race in the Keweenaw! Always inspiring, and always a little dusty & buggy… This year Brockit Inc. had no less than 5 photographers covering the event, and in two shifts. A huge thank you to our team: Greg from Juskuz who was shooting on the North end of the course, Chris from XMATIC who was chasing the leaders on the trail and also on the North, our own Emily hit the fields, woods, and blackflies a mile from the finish, as well as Rebecca who camped out at the finish line. We had a couple unique angles for the start as well, so a big thanks also to my buddy Todd from Brassard Media who hooked me up with a boat ride to parallel racers along the canal. While I was breathing boat exhaust, Emily was on the roof of the condos next to the bridge, and Rebecca was standing on the bridge itself. Fun, fun! Give us a little time to compile everyone’s content, but in the meantime, some sneaks from Greg and Chris below.
The wonderful thing about a small town is that people help each other out.
Word got around that there were some empty walls at the 5th & Elm Street Coffee House, in Calumet, and Brockit was asked if we had any extra prints to throw up for a couple of weeks. From our collection of mounted prints in the studio intern Rebecca, and myself, picked out a broad range of images that we thought would represent Brockit well. The nice, dark wood, paneling makes a perfect canvas for Adam’s bright shots.
Stop by to take a glance and also check out 5th & Elm’s second location in Hancock (the old Spice of Life). You can’t go wrong with good coffee.
All, thanks so much for the emails, phone calls, txts, tweets, and facebook hits with praise for the 2009 Houghton Spring Art & Music Festival. The response has been overwhelming to say the least. Thanks to all the musicians, vendors, downtown businesses, the Scott MacInnes & the City of Houghton, Carlton Crothers & the SmartZone, Todd & Jessie from Brassard Media, Bonnie & Cynthia & the Arts Ctr, PJ Olsson, Good Times Music… I could go on and on. Thanks to Todd & Meghan for cameraphone shots in the middle of the action below. Again - my personal and sincere thanks to everyone! We’ll do this again next year!!!
Check it out, everyone. This year’s downtown festival is a little bit different from the previous 7. We’ll be setup in the middle of downtown, right in the middle of the road actually - taking up two full blocks of road. Check out the musical lineup as well. Everyone has been working especially hard on this one. Please distribute the link, the word, and the poster around.
Take a peek at the commercial that is going live today. (nice job Brassard Media! and way to get my little girl in it!
The Copper Country Community Arts Center and the City of Houghton present the 8th annual Houghton Spring Art and Music Festival on Saturday, June 13 -Shelden Avenue from noon-8pm.
The festival’s outstanding features include ~30 artist booths & demos, free family art activities, CCCAC Extreme Bake Sale, prizes from downtown businesses, and an awesome music line up. Food will be on site with T’s Taste of Chicago.
Music Line Up
Noon The Outlaws 1:20 Uncle Pete’s All-Star BBQ Blues Band 2:50 Orphans Torch 4:10 Joshua Davis and Joe Wilson from Steppin’ In It 5:30 Squeaky Clean Cretins 7:00 P.J. Olsson & Rock Camp
This year also features a “Frog Hop” activity. We’ve received generous prizes and support from The Library, Down Wind Sports, Wicker & Willow, The Edge, The Lunch Bag, Good Times Music, The Blue Iris, and Silver Rae Bead Studio. Stop by the Arts Center booth during the festival to pick up a Frog Hop card to take to our supporting businesses and receive a frog stamp. Fill up your card with all eight stamps and return it to the Arts Center booth to be placed in a drawing for prizes. Participants must be 18+ and present to win and will be announced before the final performance…
Speaking of the final performance, this year our headlining act will be P.J. Olsson who will be performing with over twelve young musicians ages fifteen and under as well as a hip-hop dance team. Participants are in P.J.’s “Rock Camp 2009″. Check out their website at www.pjsrockcamp.com.
Pam is a fashion designer with a very distinct style, so we provided some green marble from the old hospital stairwell and a dark studio to offset pink, black & white. We shot Pam’s fashion show a while back, and while this is the same modeling crew, the look and location are new. Kept some high saturation on the colors with a bit of added contrast, and synced a spot removal to fix an annoying speck on the D3’s sensor. Thanks to the random voulenteer from the drawing studio who was able to throw some feathers on the scene. Pam - as always - great work!
In a dance studio basement in the Keweenaw Peninsula, there has been a steady stream of musicians, dancers, instructors, and equipment moving in and out of the doors. Through the walls there are sounds of guitars, drums, harmonized vocals, and the occasional yell when a circuit breaker blows from the load of amps, stage lights, and the industrial smoke machine. What’s going on here? It is PJ Olsson’s Rock Camp 2009. Check out the running blog for the whole story, but in short - its a very cool, hands-on session with some stellar instructors, headed by rock star PJ Olsson. A live performance is planned for this year’s Spring Art & Music Festival in downtown Houghton on June Saturday June 13th.
Brockit’s involvement comes in the form of a full blow, rock-star photoshoot. Interns Emily and Rebecca helped load in all the gear and worked quickly with Todd & Jessie Brassard of Brassard Media - both who seem to be involved in every aspect of the camp - to setup the scenes and get the shoot rolling. Having returned just the night before from a large weekend shoot in West Virginia, I needed all the help I could get. We shot performance style with a live performance complete with lights and smoke, then moved to the studio setup for the group shots. Each performer, dancer, singer, etc. gave two quick poses - inspired by TopModel, MTV, RollingStone, or the variety of examples that Jessie brought with her. Got some great shots out of this for sure. Nice job everyone!
Some sneaks below, and the full sets will be available by the weekend.
Anyone following Brockit on Twitter or Facebook knew that this was a fun project for our studio. It had all the right ingredients: incredible people, photogenic location, high energy, and some unique challenges. I finished a week of work in the Detroit & Ann Arbor area and headed to San Francisco to meet awesome Brockit assistant Emma at SFO. Though we made the assistant call-out on the Brockit Facebook group, the stars aligned and Emma, who worked most of our Lake Superior weddings last year, was in the area and served as chauffeur and assistant for a couple days. Satish and Vani were a great couple to work with! Let me back up - not only were they great, their family was incredible. We were so well received, accommodated, and pampered with Indian food and drinks, that we felt completely at home. I think Vani’s family was surprised at our ability to eat hot food though - everyone kept on saying, ‘be careful, you know that is very spicy, even we don’t eat those peppers!’
We started in the morning with some traditional ceremonies inside the house, then moved to a traditional ‘American’ setting and attire for the early afternoon. Beautiful locations and not a cloud in the sky! After a long lunch we watched the transformation of Vani as she was adorned and clothed in traditional and ceremonial markings, jewelry, and clothing. I’ve captured many a bride’s transformation, but there was certainly something magical about Vani’s. The flowers sewn into her hair, the gold thread in her sarong, the henna on her hands… beautiful, beautiful.
Going long on these preparations, small caravan raced at a disturbing (even for me) pace out to the temple through California rush hour traffic. Unlike an ‘American’ wedding, there is no slipping the time in a Hindu wedding. Stars and planets do not care about traffic… On to the temple and the non-stop ceremony. If you haven’t been to a Hindu wedding, woah…. incense and rice in the air, along with the smells of insanely good food, kids running everywhere, and non-stop ritual on stage. Thanks so much to Gowtham aka: @sgowtham in Houghton who for the price of a couple beers at the KBC gave me all the tips on Kanya Daan, Panigrahana Hathlewa, Saptapadi, etc… I don’t think I missed a thing! Emma switched lenses like a pro for me as the scenes changed quickly, and Vani’s family guided my barefoot self around the stage like I was a sibling.
Technically I shot most of the day with natural light. I added a strobe for the outdoor, afternoon scenes, but kept the aperture open and focal length as long as possible for the intense ceremonial action on the stage. I was surprised to fill 24GB pretty quickly, so thanks again to Emma for fast CF card swapping, and thank goodness the D3 has dual slots.
I couldn’t help but spend a few extra days out in CA. While my friends in Northern Michigan had snow, I had 74 degrees, sunshine, and not a cloud in sight for days… ahhh…
Photos are available! Just over 400 in all from two photographers. Images are posted in chronological order. Some highlights below. Congratulations again!
Check out the gallery here!
Many congratulations to the 2009 graduates from Finlandia University! Emily and I were pleased to capture the event this past weekend and watch the transition from student to graduate. A little shout-out to Peter VanPelt who received an honorary degree and made a number of eyes tear with his powerful speech. Thanks, Peter.
We’re processing the photos which include candid shots as well as the stage shots and will be uploading as quickly as possible from the road this week. Keep an eye on the blog here for updates. I’d suggest adding the RSS feed or subscribing to the blog so you’ll know the second they’re up! Thanks and congratulations again!
An Acknowledgment of Life, Death, Grief, and Rebirth
A collaboration by photographer, Adam Johnson, and artist / model, Heidi Wiitanen
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A series of eleven 20” by 30” black and white nude photographs to be shown at the Rhythm Skate Shop from April 15th through May 15th.
Reception: April 17th, 2009, 8 – 10 pm
Purpose:
Although these local visionaries have worked together for several years on various photography shoots, this is a first-time collaboration for photographer, Adam Johnson, and artist / model, Heidi Wiitanen, presenting the public with a very special project.
The project consists of 11 black and white nude photographs and a mask, conveying the emotions involved in the process of life, death, grief, and rebirth. The model, Heidi Wiitanen, shares her portrayal of the different selves in each of these emotional processes through photographs taken by Adam Johnson. Powerful and relatable, these photographs display an embrace of trials and hardships, the ability to overcome them and the beauty of rebuilding oneself with a sense of empowerment.
Postcards and an artist statement from both will be available at the reception.
I’ve been adding old content to Adobe Lighroom which I’ve been using dedicatedly since it was in Beta mode. I’m a fan of this package versus Aperature or similar workflow products for no other reason than it follows Adobe’s long history of solid software and workflow tools. With that, I’m amazed at how little actual Photoshop work I do. I used to take my top selects from a shoot and load them right into Photoshop and run the gamut of curves, crop, spot, etc. I even had plugins for monotone control, noise reduction / enhancment, blah, blah, blah… I was using Photoshop last night and I took me a half an hour to figure out how to move a layer selection! I just don’t use it and have gone to the less-is-more and being very careful about what is in the lens as I hit the shutter release. Oh, that and I have NO time to be dinking with ‘fixing’ shots. If they are no good - delete!
So - adding old shots into the database I pulled the two shots that were used to create ‘room 603′ a while back. The quick story here is one of catharsis. Instead of dreaming about falling, being chased, my teeth falling out, being unknowingly naked or being totally unprepared for an exam, I tend to dream about dark industrial buildings and the wandering apparitions they contain. I had one of these dreams and wanted to recreate it. The shots below were done in an old hospital on a Saturday morning with the key to the building and permission from the city. We brought the sheets, gown, and even the IV bag for props. The model is standing on a Pelican gear box, a single hotlight with doors is assisting the sun through the window, and the rest was already there in the slightly decaying (and cold) critical care ward. The sequence is below, minus the baseline shot with no light in the window (making the transparency possible which was actually my wife’s suggestion) 1/30 at 3.5, ISO 200 shot with my old D100 on a tripod (another thing I never use anymore.) After I worked the layers, I immediately printed this at 30″ and fulfilled the full-circle catharsis, making this one of my personal favorites, though not my mom’s…
So after a number of requests, we’re trying out Brockit on Facebook. I’m a firm believer of keeping self-promotion out of personal pages on Facebook as groups seem nicely setup for this, so there you go. While we thought of having a ‘I was a Brockit Model’ or ‘I am a Brockit gear sherpa,’ the group is simply Brockit Inc. Fun, fun. Look for images to be uploaded here soon. I have to wait to connect to the fileserver to watermark the images though. Chad needs to get remote desktop working up so I can do this from in front of the fireplace at the KBC…
With the okay from our second model, there are some additional shots from our -27 degree escapade to the decaying radar station. Again - this was a great project shoot with our whole crew and some die-hard models who braved asbestos, deep snow, and thin clothing in an unheated radar station in the middle of nowhere. Hey - its all in the name of art! Thanks again to our team. See the earlier post for more details and comments. Natural light, high ISO, handheld, oh yes - and FREEZING…
There is a reason we venture out with a full crew and do our own Friday project shots - besides being fun, its practice for when we’re working a large commercial shoot with multiple indoor and outdoor scenes, models, props, food, weather, client, etc. This shoot was for a set of stock images for our friends up at the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge in Copper Harbor, MI. The majority of the shots on the site were shot by Brockit back in 2005 and still look nice and fresh, but with the lodge being open more in the winter, it was time to add some snowy content for them. After a number of reschedulings for weather and travel, we finally packed the low-rider mercury up with camera gear, food, drinks, manager / shot-list coordinator, two interns, and photographer. A big thanks to the staff at the KML for providing craft service, hospitality, and good setups. A bigger thanks to the models (and crew doubling as models) for the patience with all the scenes. Everyone did great, and we got a ton of content. There are just over 100 ‘highlight’ shots for crew & model enjoyment / amusement here and a few below for fun. Always good to work with Dave & Karyn at The Marketing Department on shoots like this - you guys are professional and fun.
We’re working with some good friends on a media project - gathering visual content for Dave & Karyn at the Marketing Department in Houghton. The studio has been set, spiked, and wired for video while stills will be on-location. Thanks to Todd at Brassard Media for providing the video capture - always good to team with him. Three interviews are under our belt after the first night of setup and light testing, and everyone did great. Todd got back on the blog bandwagon and posted earlier today about the shoot - thanks! Makes me appreciate still shots though, if nothing else for the fact that you don’t have to be quiet during studio shoots. It was odd to not have the studio filled with music and laughing and instead be hiding in the office watching the monitor through a crack in the door. Thanks to our friends who provided great interviews the other night - looking forward to the rest! Thanks for the shots below, Todd. Here is his post.
Thanks to all the participants in this year’s Great Bear Chase up in lovely Calumet. Adam was able to, with the help of our Brockit interns Kitty & #4, capture over 2000 images - go team!
While Kitty covered racers in the start/finish section, Adam & #4 rocked out on getting action shots on the main course. All racers & staff are able to download free low-res images from the gallery linked in the post below. A huge thanks to Arnie & his team for allowing us to cover this wonderful Winter event!
If you don’t see your course shots - don’t fret! Please keep checking the gallery, as more course shots will posted any minute. As I type, Adam is driving 89N to Burlington and is keeping his sites out for a place to pull over, complete uploads & then jet off to Montreal. Adam - no driving and Facebooking, okay?
We’re gearing up to shoot at this year’s annual Great Bear Chase up at in Calumet. I personally have been shooting this race for about a decade, so its always a pleasure to come up and work. Its a ton of fun too; 500+ skiers, unpredictable weather, and the die-hard attitude of the skiers make it a blast. This year like previous years we’ll be shooting in an official capacity with multiple photographers from a variety of locations, processing, and posting images to the storefront area of the website. Note that las year we were shooting as part of a media project and not as official race photographer - thus no 2007 images online. This year please thank Arnie and the race organization for hiring Brockit Inc. because with our agreement, all racers will be able to download low-res images straight off the website for no cost which are perfect for facebook, tacking on your office wall, refrigerator, or emailing to your friends who have no idea of what a 500 racer event in the middle of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula looks like! Physical prints up to 30″ and high resolution downloads will be available for purchase.
So if you are racing on March 8th, look for our crew (Emily, Rebecca, or me) on the trails, wipe the frozen snot from your face and look like you are having fun!
So you probably didn’t realize that there was a radar station located in remote Keweenaw Peninsula. Well there was, and kind of - still is. The 665th Calumet Air Force Station was operational 1950 - 1988. Its support base was K.I. Sawyer AFB. Some early equipment FPS-5; FPS-3/-20/-64; FPS-27; FPS-26A; FPS-6/-90 and later: FPS-27; FPS-26A. FPS-91A; FPS-116 (JSS). Cool stuff if you are into cold-war era defenses and the SAGE network for which this radar station served as a link. If you’re not, check it out - its absolutely fascinating!
In my continual fascination with empty, abandoned, decaying industrial structures, we rounded up the troops for an afternoon shoot at the decommissioned base. Many thanks to the Keweenaw County Sheriff’s Department, and our friends at Pasty.net - both of whom have high interest in keeping the site secure and do so with an array of video cameras, motion sensors, and padlocks. While we planned a couple weeks out, we did not factor the weather. When we pulled up, we had a -27 windchill outside and our staging area in tower was perhaps 20 degrees at best. So the interns kept the models warm with blankets, hats, boots, and tomato soup (thanks, John) photoshoot & costume director Heidi, tour guide JCS and I scoped the floors out with a flashlight and settled on a half dozen locations. Thanks to everyone for helping out, and a thank you to the crazy models whose pale, frozen faces made the shoot that much more dramatic. More shots to come from this set.
AN/FPS-27 radar
active base
under the radar support structure
in the main tower stairwell
director Heidi, intern Emily, guide John, manager Meghan
I’m up way too late doing this, but the sound of the rain in February in the Upper Peninsula is freaking me out a bit and I drank way too much tea. So instead of sleeping, I uploaded about a dozen or so images to the main gallery and refreshed some content on the blog as well. Navigation between the gallery and the client area should be easier too. So yes - I’ve added some fresh shots to the wedding, commercial and exhibition galleries - some of you are featured, more to come - going to bed now…
I think I had this on my facebook a while back, but I opened a bottle of champange recently and thought again of this crazy set of shots from Krista Werner’s wedding this fall. I admit that I convinced the groomsman to shake the bottle up a bit, but I didn’t expect it to really make that much of a mess. Actually… a lot of people got dirty and somehow wet with lake water, beer, mud, or champange at Krista’s wedding. One of the more fun ones also - thanks Krista! I just held my finger down on the shutter release as he popped the cork off. Check out his eyes following the cork as the bottle is exploding - watch people’s faces too - just too funny! Thank goodness for 11 frames / second.
We have a few different categories for types of shoots. Among all the commercial, wedding, and portrait work, there is a loose category for project & art shoots. These are done either for individual clients as part of a portfolio, modeling, or commercial project, or as Brockit shoots for promotion, portfolio, or just pure fun; this is an example of the latter. Meghan (now with the more appropriate title of ‘manager’) helped hook us up with Lucy, an old friend of hers in town with aptitude for modeling. Always a fan of location vs. studio we secured a poolside site at a friends beautiful home just south of here and brought:
SLR bodies
video camera & underwater housing
wetsuit
snorkel
pickled eggs
a bag of clothing
model
photographer
assistant
art director
manager
Thanks so much to our hosts who were both generous and supportive of the project and gave us free reign of their place for the afternoon; so nice! Lucy did great and was a natural. The still shots were the goal, but underwater video was too much of an opportunity not to pass up. Thanks to our buddy Todd for the gear for this part, and a thanks for the future editing of the content. Shooting stills in a wetsuit is one thing, but trying for video capture underwater was another. Heidi (director for the shoot) ended up in the water, holding me underwater while Lucy thrashed around, while I tried to capture content. Too much fun… 215 images from the shoot, a few blog-appropriate selections below.
Heidi carefully setting the shot
scene is set
black dress series
Heidi arranging fabric
another set scene
arranging goggles during the underwater set
floating with camera - I need ballast
my favorite kind of woodpecker through the glass during the shoot
One of our best clients is the crew up at Portage Health. We’ve worked with them for a long time now, providing content for a wide variety of uses - web to print. A yearly highlight project is their annual report. This is a high-gloss, beautiful piece, full of stories, facts, outreach, and all with good reliance on photography. Jessie (longterm Brockit model, friend, client, etc) takes the reigns on the project and totally rocks it out. I love working this with her as we get such an unusual tour inside the lives of patients. The intimacy of the project matches my shooting style. I try to be approachable, discrete, and artistically capture content in the format Jessie is looking for to fit her design. This year’s report is a especially unique as it features shots I was able to capture at a few hundred feet off the ground whilst hanging out the open door of a tiny helicopter. Kudos to our friends for believing in the aerial effort! The remainder of the shots were captured on-site using a combination of natural and strobe lighting, though if you are following the posts, you know that I love my new SB900 but love high ISO and natural light better…
I’ve been accused of exploiting Kora in a lot of work we do, but she is not only photogenic, but she is free - well, until she figures it out. She is a regular in media projects and is comfortable & adaptable in most situations. She is a great helper too and excited to participate in studio and location work which is great for us as we often need her for commercial work as well as making clients smile in the studio for family shots. Victor at Portage Health recently did an awesome job using a photo I shot in a clinic. The final product is actually a large, backlit ad in the airport. Anyone who is running their checked baggage through ’security’ will see this one. Nice job, Victor, and way to go Kora.
Jenny has been rocking out on the image redesign for Brockit, and following the theme are new cards. While some people are still objecting about the Brockit Cat being gone, everything evolves, right? Perhaps the cat will be reborn in the future, but I like the ‘b’ look for now. The card design below really is what started the re-branding which Jenny was given unrestricted license with. Her next two tasks are building signs and finishing up the mini-book. Both are in proof stage right now. Go interns!
I used to attend the local bridal show, but most of my clients are just not from the area, so I’ve resisted the temptation to setup a booth and spend a Sunday afternoon with my fellow, local wedding service providers, and opted for inserts into the bags instead and spend my time on the ski trail. This is where our crew comes in handy. Jenny (we call her #3) whipped out a nice design that follows her theme with the modern Brockit look. Make your own judgment, but I think it is clean, effective, classy, and to the point. Nice job, #3. Sorry AI kept on crashing on you - the Facebook app for my iPhone does the same thing…
Our new intern, Rebecca Forsell, and I were driving back from a shoot for the school district the other day and we were talking about the passion of working vs. the obligation of working. She is reading Life without Principle and reminded me about this quote:
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
I need to incorporate the quote somehow into Brockit’s presence because this really summarizes why we do what we do - we LOVE what we do.
Thanks, Rebecca. The whole exerpt below.
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get ‘a good job,’ but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain. but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.”
With the new blog up, there are some gaps to fill, but I thought I’d post some summer & fall 2008 wedding highlights. While it was hard to choose, they were a blast to shoot, and each has its own crazy story, they all have beautiful brides and beautiful locations in common!
Alright! After some frustration, I’ve updated the blog software and have to just fill in a bunch of holes in the timeline. Stay tuned to see what we’ve been up to for the last few months. We’ve been busy!
Hey - we’re all about the hardcore UP bikers, and the labor day weekend was no exception for photogenic opportunities in the remote bliss of Copper Harbor. While I was touring the wonderful wineries of the Leelanau Peninsula with my family (Black Star, Mawby, Shady Lane, Willow, Forty-Five North: you guys rock! Leelanau Cellars, you guys do NOT rock…) Emily rocked it out in the Harbor shooting 400 shots in conjunction with Brockit’s new friend, Greg Maino of www.juskuz.com - a budding, race oriented, one-man operation with a good eye and Nikon gear (ah, Paul Simon…) There is no better time to be had in the tip of the Upper Peninnsula - bikes, good beer, and my old buddies Mojo and certainly Joe & Andy Wilson of ‘steppin’ in it‘. Sorry I missed you guys, but so nice to see you at the Porcupine Music Festival - Joe, thanks for the new CD!
Racers, you know the drill: browse, review, and order digital downloads and / or physical prints from the gallery. Nice job bikers!
Racers, an additional 400 images from Brockit’s Emily Allen are now live on the site! All images are in chronological order which provides a unique perspective on the race. Nice job again everyone. Thanks for all the compliments on the shots - glad they are being enjoyed!
Our 4-person crew covered the race well and we’ve got a TON of images for competitors. the weather was amazing, and everyone was their usual photogenic self. Thanks to the ATV drivers and to Terry for the shirts and the opportunity for us to provide all the imagery! I personally love doing this job every year, and I know you all love racing it; well… maybe not the swim so much.
Please feel free to browse through the galleries which are in chronological order from start to finish. Swim at the front, and awards at the end. Watermarks disappear on order of digital copy or prints of course - both of which are offered in a variety of sizes, finishes, and resolutions, including files big enough to make a billboard out of - if you’re into really showing off your sweaty, dirty, exhausted looking selves…
There are approximately 900 images up, with more on the way from Brockit Intern, Emily.
Images were shot RAW (I mean - of course…), with flash used quite a bit to shoot into the morning sun, to get some motion blur on the road course by the lake, and back in the woods to make that sweat really glisten. Some of my favorites were shot whilst strapped to the back of an ATV (seems like I’m strapping myself to a vehicle every few weeks here) and shot with the lens that goes under my pillow every night.
If you know me, you know I’m always ready to share with anyone, and this is especially true in terms of education. While I claim to know very little in terms of formality with regards to photography, I’m happy to present a viewpoint from a self-taught, cowboy photographer who has learned by trial and error. I presented to a Michigan Tech Summer Youth Programs group as a guest lecturer (I taught this class a couple years ago) and had a great time doing this. A quote below from Stephanie:
Hi Meg, Adam,
Thank you guys so much for coming! I and the students all really appreciated it, especially since Adam had to hop and hobble to make it over! He put on a great presentation. There were a lot of comments afterwards from the kids saying how much they learned. Some included were several students who commented how they were inspired by Adam’s candid captures of people and by his response to “What makes someone a photographer?”
The students weren’t the only ones learning– my TA and I learned a lot as well.
