Continental Divide Ride
I recently traveled to Oregon for the BMW MOA rally in Redmond. Afterwards I was invited to join Jim Hyde and the Rawhyde crew on their Continental Divide off-road motorcycle ride. I had not planned for this but decided to jump at the opportunity anyway. Jim hosts a week long ride for his customers. The [...]
2009 Rawhyde Adventure Rider Challenge
At the urging of friend and writer Bill Dragoo, I attended the third annual Rawhyde Adventure Rider Challenge last May held in Castaic, California. The day before leaving for the competition I traded my 2008 Honda GL1800 Goldwing for a 2009 BMW R1200GS Adventure – my dream bike and by far the best bike I [...]
Women and Harleys
I did this photo for an assignment in Ride Oklahoma Magazine about women who ride. We wanted to break the stereotype of “biker chicks” and show a more realistic setting, two women out for a Sunday ride. We shot this in front of Bill Dragoo’s rustic barn in Norman, with his wife Susan Dragoo to [...]
OCCRA youth race
This story was on the Oklahoma Cross Country Racing Association charity event held in Guthrie each year. I wanted to capture some pictures of youth riders. I grabbed this shot while they were waiting for the start of the race. While a lot of photographers use a telephoto lens for sports action, I prefer to [...]
Bad Boys
This was my first photo shoot with Tommy Bolton, owner of Tombo Racing. I met Tommy at Thunder Valley Raceway during a previous assignment and we decided to feature one of his bikes in Ride Oklahoma Magazine. I met Tommy and his customers “Murder” and “Ratz” – yes, that is their street nickname – in [...]
1936 Ford Coupe
I photographed this 1936 Ford Coupe in a downtown Oklahoma City parking garage for the car builder. We brought in generators and a half dozen lights. I mixed large strobes with smaller SB-800 speedlights to get the look I was after. A smoke machine was placed behind the car with lights firing into it. Later [...]
Tombo Racing at Thunder Valley
Tommy Bolton with Tombo Racing started out as a customer but has turned into a very good friend over the past couple of years. He is one of the funniest guys I know and will do anything for his friends. We did a story about him for Ride Oklahoma Magazine about a year ago. The [...]
Brass Ball Bobbers in Bricktown
One of the more extensive shoots I have done lately was for Darwin Motorcycles and their Brass Ball Bobbers line. As one of my regular clients I had done quite a bit of work for them in the past. For this shoot we wanted more of a lifestyle approach – not show the bike so [...]
Crossbar Ranch
In the spring of 2007 we were just getting our new magazine Ride Oklahoma kicked off. Needing stories, I had heard about a great riding area owned by the City of Davis called Crossbar Ranch. Nestled in the heart of the Arbuckle Mountains in south Central Oklahoma, Crossbar was known as some great single track [...]