It keeps snowing so I’m bound to keep shooting wintery looking scenes. Worked with a new ski model yesterday and it worked out much better than I had anticipated. Grabbed an hour of shooting before the wind picked up and blew the fresh snow off the trees. The windows for shooting are much smaller this time of year. K gave away all my cans of tuna to the local food bank.

With the help of my man F3 we turned out this portrait of Jarrod Shoemaker. Not my normal fare, but as long as it’s winter, why not? But to recap, I was out in California two weekends ago and snuck in a bit of shooting at the Tour of California prologue. That was extremely excellent, shot it all film - this is why I don’t have anything to post yet. The day before we did an nice adventure with the PDX crew and it went great (don’t have the film back from that yet either.) Very good group, great weather, and a crazy hard ride to shoot. Even got to hang out with Radio Freddy, hadn’t seen him in a couple years. And now it’s snowing seems like non-stop around here. Our driveway has lost 25% of its volume because of the plow piles but it’s kept the skiing reliable even with random bouts of rain. Speaking of rain, may be Seattle-bound next week…..

We talk about weather way too much around here, but there’s a reason. Rain, sleet, snow all before 9 AM, it’s nuts. There seems to be something falling out of the sky almost non-stop for the past week, which has made riding and shooting a challenge. Good thing the studio work is starting to pick up and I have full-wrap fenders on the winter machine. I’ll ride in pretty bad conditions, but the 3″ deep slush is really too much. On the bright side at least it hasn’t been stupid cold.

You can’t shoot good cycling outside when it’s pissing ice form the sky. So take your Olympic triathlete, Jarrod Shoemaker, into the studio and get it going. Really fun, just me and him and a lot of gear. I don’t shoot tethered that much but it’s pretty good once you get used to it. I can see the helpfulness of having a digi tech on hand, kind of slows things down to do everything yourself.