Here are a couple photos from a really small kids ski race at Sundance one night in Jan. Light up at the gate was great, but quickly disappeared down the course, so did what I could to work the light in the slippery environment. Fun assignment I hope I get to shoot again!

Thanks taking a gander,

Grant

I'm in desperate need to just get some images out there. I always told myself I'd be a staff photographer that didn't let their portfolio fall behind and would keep up on blogging. It turns out that's easier said than done. The stoke level on showing off your work from daily assignments ebbs and flows with the quality of assignments any given week, and mustering the strength to show it off is sometimes difficult. So I'm going to do some retrospective blogging because I'm a strong believer in self-publishing for self-evaluation. To me, I can never really tell if I really, really like a photo when it's in photoshop or photomechanic. I need to see it against that clean, white blog background. I think it has something to do with checking out other photographers' blogs as I was first learning what good pictures were. It was how they were presented, and I need to see mine that same light to be a good judge of them. So here's to trying to get that old, rusty, blog engine back up and running.

Urban Velo gave me a call last year to photograph Salt Lake City's Eric Rich and his one-of-a-kind bike piano he constructed himself. Here are a few of my favorite images from my first ever magazine-y portrait shoot. 

Thanks for looking,

Grant

So I found myself today in a locker room, with just a football coach, explaining the "portrait sweats." 

It was good though, we had some good conversation, and it was really nice getting some insight into what it is like to be a football coach, going to the championship game for the first time, and in Utah County, where the athletes are very loyal and devoted to their sport. 

But I was looking for ideas for this portrait when I happened to come across Patrick Smith's old work on his blog from when he worked here. It kicked me in the ass a little bit, so I wanted to put some extra work into this portrait, even if it didn't turn out well, I wanted to try really, really hard.

SO. We have these really sketchy, homemade strip lights that are built with overhead fluorescent lights on 7 foot 2x4s, stuck in a Home Depot bucket filled with concrete. They each way about 50 or 60 lbs. 

So after tearing them out of the concrete, wiggling them into my little sedan, I dragged them out to the football field in three stages. Then as practice was ending I found out the locker room was "See where those lights end way down there? Down some stairs after that is the new locker room." 

So I put everything back in my car, and dragged everything back out to the locker room and set this up.

Thanks for looking,

Grant