July: A Blur of a Month

July was a surprisingly busy month, thankfully. The first week was spent mostly in Kentucky, with only one shoot on the books for late in the month – a story I had pitched. Ironically, those are the only photos from this month not included in here (the story hasn't run yet). 

I got the news at the end of my trip to Kentucky that I had been accepted to the Eddie Adams Workshop XXX, something that was completely unexpected and floored me. Following that acceptance email, I had my busiest month since moving to Los Angeles - not my most financially successful, but still busy. It was also rewarding knowing that the work wasn't work that just came to me (save for a couple), but stuff I sought out and made happen. It was a month where things clicked, which doesn't happen as often as I'd like. 

With how chaotic things were this month, I didn't get around to doing as many blog posts as I'd like to have. It would have been nice to have blogged after most of these shoots. So, I did my best to squish them all in here without completely overloading the post, as I always do. It's still overloaded. So it goes. 

Thanks for giving my photos and words a look-see.

4TH OF JULY IN KENTUCKY

KIDS TOUGH MUDDER

MMA AT LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM

MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR

GOLF AT LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM

GOD AT WORK FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

PORTRAIT WORK

SKYLENT DISCO FOR TIMEOUT LOS ANGELES

4th of July at Kentucky Lake

Water skiing, a pig roast, and various other slices of Americana made up my 4th of July this year at Kentucky Lake in - you guessed it - Kentucky. I spent a few days in Kentucky with my lovely girlfriend and her equally enjoyable family, giving a summer lake house one last hurrah before her grandparents sell it. 

Most days were marked by light rainfall, but we had a cloudless 4th where I managed to make the most of the sunshine turn a fine shade of lobster red. There was a lot of laughter and storytelling and trying to surmise the experience in a short blog post wouldn't do it justice. 

The moment I found myself most lost in was the pig roast, where the white noise of countless simultaneous conversations allowed me the space to tune in with my camera and study a curiosity I'd never been a part of before. It was interesting to watch how everyone interacted with the pig in various ways, each of the children having their own curiosities and feelings about the pig - poking and prodding and looking it over. I found myself caught up in their explorations of it, thinking about the gears at work in a young kids minds as they explore the ideas of death and life and food. 

I had planned to post these photos much earlier but a whirlwind of a month followed the 4th and they fell to the wayside in the hustle of life. But, I'll save that for my July recap post.

Thanks for reading and looking.