A couple months ago I got the opportunity to shoot for one of my favorite highly prestigious magazines in the travel world, Conde Nast Traveler. Even better yet, I ended up shooting the cover. When I got the call to go to Turks & Caicos, Jamaica, and Barbados, needless to say I was pretty excited. The shoot is now in the June 2012 issue that’s on the shelves now.

The title of the story is called “Don’t Just Lie There, Do Something” and the article is about doing sports in the Caribbean, but on another note, the title is so befitting to me and my life in general. I like to live life doing as much as I can instead of lying around doing nothing.

I’m pretty excited about how the 10 page article turned out. The design is a great compliment to the photos. You can also check out the online 40 image slide show of the other images from the shoot that aren’t in the printed magazine on Cntraveler.com

Got to pull off a second test while I was in New Zealand. It’s always nice when you can shoot, be productive and explore new places all at the same time. After the big job, we shot out to Piha, which is the west coast of the north island of New Zealand. Only about an hour away from Auckland. We rented a cool mountain retreat for a couple days, chilled and a little work. Thanks to my NZ team, Tracy, Lucy & Stacy.

I’ve always been a fan of Dana Neibert’s work, and I recently came across his new kickstarter project called the DigiPlate. What I love about this is that it solves a lot of problems we encounter on set, and I’d love to see this product come to life.

We’ve been using a laptop bag for digital teching, and pretty much the only one we’ve found out there and it is awful, but what can we do? One of the major problems we encounter on a 10 hour day, is the laptop overheating in this case, which the DigiPlate not only mounts the laptop, but acts as a heat sink and helps pull the heat off the laptop. It also allows you to attach the station to different types of stands some cable management.

Enough of me explaining. Get all the details and support it on Kickstarter here. You can see an in depth description and videos. Check out the updates page for a video where they mount the laptop to the roof of a car and drive 80mph.

I have to say, I wouldn’t blog about it if I didn’t back it. Back it with me so we can see this product come to life!

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Skydiving is one of the most amazing feelings ever. I would much rather jump out of a plane than bungee jump. The rush of falling at 180mph for 60 seconds is incredible. You actually feel like your flying. I just went for the 2nd time in Byron Bay, Australia this week. I swear I could get addicted to this.

We jumped from 14,000ft which is the highest package literally, but worth the extra freefall time. If you pay extra, you can get a dedicated photographer that jumps out of the plane with you and shoots photos of your short lived journey to the earth. I was curious of how they do it, and I learned about a cool little piece of photography technology that is interesting to share. They use mouth trigger that they can fire the camera by biting down on it as they’re falling through the sky(see the pic below. He’s holding the mouth trigger in his left hand). The dSLR camera is mounted to the top of his helmet(unfortunately he had a garbage Samsung camera inside).

Unfortunately most of the images were terrible. Due to a couple reasons. His camera settings were wrong, and he was using a Samsung camera. If he was using a Canon and set it right, 90% of them wouldn’t have turned out blurry. At least I got a couple decent ones that I had to really doctor in PS.



Just wrapped a 5 day shoot in Auckland, and wanted to throw down a couple personal shoots while I was there, thanks to the help of my awesome producer, Tracy from Halo Enterprises. As timing would have it, I was able to shoot the lovely Emma Ostilly, the day before she left New Zealand. Such a sweetheart and quite beautiful to say the least.