Cave Creek is the ‘best’ place in the metro Phoenix area for July 3 and 4 Fireworks!!! Many thanks for supporting this year’s fireworks go to: The Buffalo Chip Saloon, Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce, Carefree Conference Resort, Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce, Cody’s, El Encanto, Frontier Town, Harold’s Cave Creek Corral, Hideaway, Horny [...]

Here is fusion of video, stills and time-lapse from the 2nd Annual Camp Courage Golf Tournament Sponsored by Arizona Fire Chiefs Assoc. & Wind & Fire MC in partnership with 1-800-BoardUp to benefit Camp Courage. We all had a great day of golf at the beautiful Starfire course at Scottsdale Country Club.

Technology in photography has been one of the best (and sometimes the worst) tools that us photographers can dream of, and the new video capabilities are no exception. With the functionality in the new Canon 5D Mark II, and 7D as well as the Nikon D3S and 300s and pretty much every new SLR that’ll [...]

Arizona Bike Week is a rider’s dream. Whether you prefer organized runs and events or carving out your own path, there’s plenty of options for everyone. Our scenic terrain and amazing April weather make for some of the best riding in the country.  Spend a few days exploring the Arizona desert and mountain roads and [...]

Alan Ross, artist, educator and master printer, has earned an international reputation as a specialist in the art of black-and-white photography. As Ansel Adams’ photographic assistant from 1974 to 1979 in Carmel, Ross was integrally involved with Adams’ books, teaching in Yosemite and production of fine prints. Ross presented a personal view of the master, [...]

I spent this past week in Las Vegas for WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Professionals International). For all you non-photographers out there, WPPI is THE convention to go to every year, where photographers and vendors come together to learn from the best in the industry, browse the latest trends and research products on the trade show [...]

Paisano Publications has 11 subscription biker mags, the biggest one of the bunch of course is Easyriders.  They featured some of my Laughlin River Run work in March and as luck would have it the next rally is coming up again in April, hope to see you there.

I spent the day with 200 hundred of my closed friends and with one of Canon’s Explorer of Light, Jennifer Wu.  Her talk was hosted by the The Digital Imaging Group (DIG) as part of a series of annual seminars featuring well known and accomplished photographers/digital imaging experts.  Following George Lepp (2007), Arthur Morris (2008) [...]

I have not taken a formal class in photography so I always jump at the chance to hear other photographer speak and show off their portfolios.  Their personal approaches, experiences, practices and results fascinate me.  Their travels captivate. Through Each Others Eyes (TEOE) had such a seminar yesterday in Scottsdale.   Their goal is to [...]

Scuba Specialties, 4139 West Bell Road Phoenix (602) 866-3636 is now featuring giclee gallery wrap fine art prints from The Main Event Imaging.  Since 1993 Scuba Specialties has been the premier dive shop in the Phoenix area offering diver training, dive travel and retail equipment sales. “We offer open-water training from a beginner scuba diver to [...]

This dramatic shot of Iron Mountain Road helps to tell a story about every biker’s dream of riding through the Black Hills during the Sturgis Rally in South Dakota.  Here, everyone has to get lined up to scoot through the tunnel because it is one-way traffic only, then you need to find a crowd and [...]

When shooting the Laughlin River Run while on assignment with Quick Throttle last year, this shot was taken just outside of Oatman Arizona. Thousands of bikers who go to this rally and visit this ghost town to mingle with wandering donkeys, bar hop, and look good for the camera.  This talented model knew how to [...]

We Were There In 2009 If a picture is worth a thousand words then we could have written a novel last year. We put a few miles on our bikes and our cameras were almost as busy as our keyboards. Throughout the year you found Quick Throttle staff in just about every state and a [...]

Image gallery link HERE Professional Photographers of America (PPA), an international nonprofit association for professional photographers, exists to assist its 22,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a [...]

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