Off Season

Well its that time of year again, Arenacross is less than one week away and thats about all the offseason Danya and i have had, Autograph stock poster shoots, catalogue work, design work and fixing a huge database error that cost us alot of time and money has taken up all the free time we were hoping to have to finish our business plan for the studio.

We are on board to shoot the entire Bookoo Arenacross series again this year and its back to all the travel in the Durango family truckster...also affectionately known as the TOE-Truck. We had alot of fun working with Mike & Gary, Shane, Erin, Becky, Lance and Trevor and April...along with the entire Read family. it will be nice to see them all again.

Having carte blanche to shoot however and wherever i want really makes it fun for me as a photographer, it offers me the opportunity to really push myself with experimentation on things that i just cant do all the time, especially with indoor motocross. Strobes, Gels, time lapse photography, stroboscopic effects, as well as image overlaying are some of the things i plan on doing this year so keep a watch out for some pretty cool stuff ( i hope )

We will still be doing amateur shooting on sunday, although this year we are doing it a bit differently... we will be offering a sign up for those who are interested in images of the race rather than shooting everyone in every moto, being a one day race we found that alot of people just didnt have time to come and look in our books to see what we had, so to reduce our workload and give a more personalized approach to the people who are interested, we will have a sign up on saturday and sunday and possibly one at the host hotel as well.

 After the Yakima round of bookoo Danya and i are heading back to Las Vegas to dig deep into the studio planning, there is alot more to opening a store front business than i anticipated, things i took for granted while working on the road are starting to look easy compared to all the planning it takes to get a really good head start with a studio.

we plan on still catering to the motocross community with product and location shooting, but we will be delving into portrait, wedding and team sports photography as well, hopefully i can stay busy with moto as it is my niche and we can hire a few shooters to do the wedding and team sports stuff, time will tell. The studio will be located in or around the Summerlin area, it is really nice up here with lots of parks and higher end housing, we have met some really nice people up here and i think we will be happy to call this home in the future.

 The kids have been playing with the neighborhood kids and all seem to be getting along well, thats more than we can say for the fighting that went on with the neighbor kids back home in ohio...maybe all the worldly traveling has taught them a little bit of wisdom and they are using it...ok thats my story and im sticking to it, lol  nevermind...cruce just got busted throwing rocks at the other kids, that lasted all of 25 seconds, sheesh 

 Thats it for now, see you at bookoo...dont be shy to say hi to Danya or myself