bicycle Archives - James Pratt

Bikepacking trip to Stillwater – aka “Mud Ride 2021”

March 12, 2021 by James Pratt

For years I have wanted to camp while on a bicycle trip. My neighbor Geoff Detrich and I finally hooked up and rode from Edmond to Lake McMurtry on gravel roads. I camped overnight and rode home in strong headwinds and deep mud.

Wahoo Kickr Bike and Zwift for indoor winter riding

November 18, 2020 by James Pratt

After nearly two months of waiting, I finally got my Wahoo Kickr indoor bicycle trainer. It was expensive, but so far I am very happy with our choice. Sold my Giant TCX In April I sold my Giant TCX to my son and purchased a slightly smaller Trek Checkpoint that fit me much better than […]

Customizing my Fuji Nevada 1.7 bicycle

August 14, 2019 by James Pratt

After 3 years and 3,000 miles of riding I have finally customized my Fuji Nevada 1.7 mountain bike to fit my daily riding needs. My modifications include a rack and panniers, flat pedals, comfort grips, lights, a phone mount, shorter stem, a water bottle cage and bike lock.

My second half-Ironman Triathlon

August 8, 2019 by James Pratt

1.2 mile swim, 60 mile bicycle ride, 13.1 mile run I awoke at 4 am this past Friday thought to myself “I am ready to do another long triathlon.” It had been 9 months since my open heart bypass surgery and I was feeling great. Each morning for the past few weeks I would wake […]

2018 Exercise Numbers

December 31, 2018 by James Pratt

2018 has been an epic year for my health. 4,003 miles on the bicycle, 1,036 miles running and 32 miles swimming – and open heart surgery.

OK Living Cover May 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic I toted my white background and lighting gear to Central Electric Cooperative in Stillwater for a cover shoot for Oklahoma Living Magazine. These usually require a fair amount of work, since I have to take an 11′ roll of white paper with me, plus all the gear to hold the paper […]

Oklahoma Living April 2020 Cover and Feature Story

I always love assignments from Oklahoma Living Magazine. Most are centered around people, and I love photographing people. In this case, I was assigned to photograph a story about Gene Rowe, a farmer in southwest Oklahoma. The story was written by Adam Calaway, one of my favorite writers, so I knew it was going to […]

Oklahoma Living Magazine September 2019 Cover

I had fun photographing this cover story for Oklahoma Living Magazine, one of my favorite clients. I took this picture at the beautiful Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma on a really hot summer day. I had to be careful to keep my models from sweating. It was toasty hot, about 98 degrees outside. […]

Goodnight Farms in Chattanooga Oklahoma

In 2017 I photographed a story about Cody Goodnight, co-owner of Goodnight Farms southwest Oklahoma. The assignment was for Top Producer Magazine, a regular client I work for in the agriculture industry. I photographed Cody and his father, fiancé and employees on their farm in early spring as they were getting ready for the wheat […]

Volunteer Firefighters for Oklahoma Living

I always love photographing real people doing real things. What could be more fun than photographing volunteer firemen? I got that opportunity recently for Oklahoma Living Magazine. My assignment was to photograph firemen from the Coyle and Woodcrest fire departments in Oklahoma. I had the idea to do a split-shot photo that showed both the […]

Rising from the Ashes – for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

During the summer 2017 I took a trip to western Kansas for a long-time client and photographed a couple of stories in the area. For one story I stopped in Clark County and photographed the Ashland Veterinarian Clinic for a story about how the clinic helped local farmers during and after a huge spring prairie […]

Oklahoma Living January 2018 Cover

I traveled to Tulsa to photograph KOTV’s Leanne Taylor for Oklahoma Living’s “Best of Oklahoma” story for the January 2018 edition of the magazine. It was early December and I had to be there at 7 am to scout for a location. We ended up photographing Leanne after her 9 am television show inside the […]

Shawnee Mills for Oklahoma Living Magazine

Had a fun time photographing this story about Shawnee Mills in where else? Shawnee, Oklahoma. I love shooting photos of industrial-type settings and people at work. I worked with one of my favorite writers Hayley Leatherwood on this project. Because of the dust from the flour mill, I had to mount two cameras with lenses […]

Cause for Conservation story for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

I traveled to Garden City, Kansas over the summer to photograph a story about water conservation efforts in the Ogallala Aquifer that covers western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. This huge aquifer is slowly being used up by the massive irrigation efforts by farmers in these western states, trying to feed the growing populations of the […]

Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine

I love doing portrait photography and had the opportunity to photograph Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine cover story. Virginia lives in Luther, not far from my home in Edmond, and was a long-time employee – 41 years – at Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives – parent to Oklahoma Living Magazine. Her father Carl Booher […]