Archive for the ‘travel journals’ Category

It’s been so long since I’ve regularly kept up with this blog… that it’s hard to begin again. A lot has happened since the new year and I’ve probably got about 10 posts worth of recapping to do before I get to current events… So, let’s just make this easy and I’ll just post out of order for the next year or so. Maybe I’ll suddenly remember in October something that happened in Feb, and I’ll post a picture with words… and you’ll wonder why there is snow in the background… etc. but you’ll never email me about it because it’s probably of no urgency to anyone to bring that to anyones attention… yeah.

Well since I’m a photographer, it just occurred to me that I should insert photos in my posts or no one would ever care to read the blog because there’s nothing to gain from reading yet another diary from someone you don’t know.

Ok, Let’s start with Switzerland. I went to Switzerland in March for a week. It was fully funded by a wonderful travel magazine which of whom I will mention when the story is actually published.

People in Switzerland as it turns out, are usually German tourists. (see above)

I met really interesting people and ate a lot of hot cheese, snowboarded everyday, the was force fed very expensive wine by the hosts. People in Arosa, Switzerland are not afraid to rock real big cat fur coats.

I got to hang out with the above man, we dined and laughed, skied together and pretended to understand each other.

He was quite agile.

I don’t normally sneak photos of people in public… and this is no exception. I gave him the old “can I take your picture wink” and he gave me a head nod that I think meant “yes, I’d actually prefer it”.

Switzerland is about teamwork

I tried my hand a bit of action sports photography.  This ain’t half bad I suppose.

This is where the blog starts to get all stock photo-y.  Someone in this building was recieving a massage at the exact moment the photograph was taken.

Has anyone that’s flown to Zurich seen this girl in the terminal train of the airport? I fell in love instantly and thought about her my whole trip. She winked at me on a hundred TV screens, then blew me a kiss. If anyone out there knows her personally, please be in touch.

That’s it for my Switzerland post… next up, Hawaii in April!

Just got back from San Francisco where I was on a top secret assignment for New York Magazine. Well maybe not ‘top’ secret but it was a good fun one. Last week I was in the Yukon Territory taking pictures of risky outdoor behavior for En Route, a nice Canadian Travel Mag. Whitehorse, check it out on the map, then go there… it’s a wonderful place.

Giant Robot Magazine issue 43 is out now. Check out the beautiful cover art by my Arctic accomplice Rachell Sumpter… yeah, that’s me with the fish! An interview with Rachell about our trip accompanied with my photos can be spotted inside.

I just did a little how to blog thing on how to find a fishing job in Alaska for my favorite website Fecalface dot com. Tonight I leave for the Inuit village of Shishmaref in Alaska. I’ll be out of touch for a week while searching for Polar Bears via dogsled and meeting some local whaling folk. See you next week!

I’ve been nominated for the Aperture West Book Prize. Hot Dog! Also, this month you will find a great critical story about “Deadliest Catch” in the April issue of Mens Journal. My photo of Chris getting pummeled by a wave can be found on the contents page. In gallery show news, I’ll have a few photos in the Beholder-art show on May 19th at the Tinlark Gallery in Los Angeles.

On a skate trip with some Norwegian buddies… hitting parks from Lincoln City to San Francisco. Oregon parks are rediculous… if it doesn’t have oververt, it’s probably not in Oregon.

From the long journey: Dutch Harbor to Seattle a few weeks ago.

I just arrived back from another journey to Finnmark in Northern Norway where I lived with a very friendly old Sami couple that treated me to fresh blood sausages after long days of reindeer roundup and slaughter. More photos to come!

I was having a nice time in South Africa this week until I witnessed this atrocity happen in front of a carload of innocent grandmothers.

Hanging in Stavanger, Norway at the moment and almost walked off this cliff yesterday. Rumour has it that two weeks ago someone threw part of a hot dog over the cliff and their dog jumped after it. Darn! Thanks to Design Sponge and Josh Spear for the nice reviews of my new website. If you are using Safari and reading this, you will find that the menu dosen’t work, we’re fixing that ASAP but just use the arrows on the top right to get outta here.