All Entries Tagged With: "Oklahoma"
Biker Portraits at Oklahoma City Thunder Run
I worked in one of my OKC commercial photography customers booth at the Oklahoma City Thunder Run motorcycle rally this past weekend capturing “biker portraits”. I set up a white backdrop and a single small flash for fill, and captured images of bikers as they strolled through the event. Most bikers are loathe to have [...]
America in Color 1939-1943
I recently saw these images at the Library of Congress and just fell in love with them. They were taken by photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information during the time before and during World War II. These are some of the few color photographs taken of rural America. I love this [...]
Stranded Maule Recovery
Last week I was asked to help recover a Maule airplane that had landed on a sandbar on the Cimarron River near Cashion, Oklahoma. A couple of guys I knew were landing along the river and ended up nosing the airplane over in the deep sand, resulting in a prop strike. Luckily the only thing [...]
Personal Work – Motorcycle Camping
After planning my personal project and gathering the necessary supplies and assistants and scouting a location, we converged on Lake Thunderbird near Norman, Oklahoma on Thursday evening. It was HOT – about 104 where we were at and even hotter in some locations around Oklahoma. I had two volunteers/friends there to help with setting up [...]
Lucille’s Restaurant
I wrote and photographed this story about Lucille’s Restaurant in Mulhall, Oklahoma for Ride Oklahoma Magazine. Lucille’s had a great deal of history and some excellent food. As the result of this story and the great food at atmosphere at Lucille’s, their Sunday biker breakfast grew from a dozen motorcycles on a Sunday to well [...]
Ride Oklahoma June 2008
I love doing portraits of people. It is always a challenge to capture a picture that really tells who that person is. My job for this story was to tell the story of Geoffrey Wooldridge, an up and coming motocross racer from Broken Arrow. I traveled to Tulsa to photograph him at practice at a [...]
Crossbar Ranch
In the spring of 2007 we were just getting our new magazine Ride Oklahoma kicked off. Needing stories, I had heard about a great riding area owned by the City of Davis called Crossbar Ranch. Nestled in the heart of the Arbuckle Mountains in south Central Oklahoma, Crossbar was known as some great single track [...]