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, 2014

I've been buried trying to finish editing wedding photos but emerged victorious from that the other day, so here are some overdue photos I took on the 4th, and a little on the 5th, of July. Myself, a roommate, a couple future roommates, and other friends went out towards Three Creeks to light off fireworks they had purchased. We set up some barbeques and enjoyed some burgers and hot dogs (not pictured). It was a solid celebration of the nation's independence.

I enjoyed a shot or two I got on the fourth last year when I took my Pentax 6x7 downtown for the firework show, so I thought it'd be fun to shoot more this fourth as well. I also have a D800, which handles low lighting so much better than the D300s I had at this time last year, so I thought it'd be fun to see what I could do with it out in the woods. I feel happy with what I came out with.

Murahd's first fireworks.

Long exposure: Beginning to end of a large rocket firework

Luke making photographs.

Murahd runs away after lighting a large rocket.

Murahd and his girlfriend, Abby, light up sparklers together.

Robert does a dance with a fistful of lit sparklers.