Mary Osborne

Portrait of Ventura based surfer Mary Osborne. For more on Mary check out her site: http://maryosbornesurf.com/

Virgil Vasquez

Virgil Vasquez

Virgil Vasquez

I took some more portraits of pro-ball pitcher Virgil Vasquez yesterday. Virgil pitched multiple games in the major league last year and is back to spring training this weekend. Then he will travel with the Pirates and hopefully throw a bunch of balls in the big league again. Best luck!

I have known Virgil for a couple years now and I remember well when we were staying in a hotel room in Oberammergau in the German alps together, attending a surprise wedding (the bride had no idea all her friends from the U.S. had flown in and that she was getting married) and he blew all the circuits on that floor by plugging in his 110V Ipod speakers. I got the lecture from the owner since she didn’t speak English and I was the only German around. Good times!

Shaums March in Santa Barbara

I took this photo of Mountain Biker Shaums March late last year and just came across it while looking for images for the Red Bull Illume contest. I had met Shaums at the Red Bull Rampage in 2003 and 2004 and when I heard from Daniel Cortina (Cortina Cycles) that Shaums was in Santa Barbara I contacted him and we did this shoot up in the clouds off of highway 154 on pretty short notice, thanks Shaums! I have two images of the shoot on my site but I felt this one deserved to be shown as well.

Conner Coffin

Conner Coffin

Conner Coffin

I photographed Red Bull team rider Conner Coffin last week. At 16 years of age Conner gets to travel the world and surf with pros like Dane Reynolds. I did an interview with him, which will be available for viewing at the release of the all new Peanut Butter Sandwich Program in early April, and he told me that he was on his way to Australia for ten days and Hawai’i right after… Nice!