Please do not breakdance on cliff edges.

B Boy D Dan

This guy was doing a headspin, I shot it in high speed mode with my Canon 40D, and rendered it at 2 frames per second... wow

Breakdance competition Palermo

Breakdance competition Palermo

So a new guy at my lab is a b-boy, and showed aus a video of him and his crew last week. "What a lot of great shots, like roller derby" I thought watching it, "but a similar background-crowd-visual noise problem. If I ever shoot this I'll have to try and get high up." Mere days later there is a battle right down the street from me, with overhangs aplenty; I nabbed this spot on the stairs and had a good half hour of people warming up on a nice spinny floor.

The light was an adventure though. What an annoying shadow that was...and what a fun two hours I just had in the new Adobe Lightroom playing with their new curve tools. None of which I applied to this shot. I liked the contrast (and am surprised the photo cliche gods didn't put a 100% African child on the left-hand side of the frame).

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breakdancing

Breakdance competition Palermo

This and "Hummingbird in Headphones" will be featured in a show called "Paperworks" at the University of Florida in January!

For something completely different from what I normally do. :)

Nathan is so excited to be back from tour. Party @ Shapiro house

or possibly falling over, it's hard to tell with The Bean as he is a bit unsteady on his pins.

We went out for lunch with the family, ironically at the venue my wedding reception was at. Which was interesting on the occasion of my divorce... LoL

Portland Phoenix Best Of Portland 2008 part @ Port City Music Hall