The Worst Half Pipe Crash I Have Ever Seen

Simon Dumont had the worst half pipe crash I have ever seen today at X Games 14 pipe practice.

First off, let me say this isn't a good sequence, I wasn't really ready and kinda had to scramble to get into position, so I cut him off on a few frames, but you will get the picture.

Simon did a 15 plus foot double flip and landed on his side on the icy coping of the pipe. The sound his body made was horrendous and he was knocked unconscious and laying in the bottom of the pipe it was scary and sickening. I really thought he was traumatically injured.

About 10 minutes later, he walked away. Simon Dumont is one tough cookie, he's made of muscle and trains hard, no ordinary human could have survived this crash, the impact on the lip was like hitting cement. We are all glad Simon is okay and he plans to compete this week in the pipe. Superhuman.

Drive By Shooting: Washington DC, Christmas 2009

It's Christmas Afternoon, so in between lots of cookies and lots of Turkey and Ham, I took a drive and took some shots of the beautiful White Christmas we had here in DC.

I used to snowboard down this hill on a Burton Backhill in 1984
The one statue is crying on the other statue's shoulder because the health care reform bill was passed yesterday morning within these walls.
Security Issue Number One: Protecting the National Menorah.


When I was a kid, there was a pretty good chance of getting car jacked or robbed around this area in the evening, now there is a Whole Foods.
Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night can stop a hipster in tight jeans on Christmas day riding his fixed gear through Adams Morgan.
I attempted to locate the Prime Minister of Malaysia but he wasn't here. My mission continues...
Obama's crib.
2 blocks from Obama's crib, someone else's crib.
Life size replica of my dong.
Jefferson Memorial.
The world's largest office building. It's built in the shape of a pentagon.
The first spaceship landing area ever constructed by the U.S. Government.

The One and Only Taz in the Bunki Shuttle

This was my shuttle drive to LAX last week, he would really like it if you watched this.

Triple Barrel

As everyone else I know is packing their bags to move to Mammoth, Breck or some other mountain for the season, I am packing mine to head to Micronesia on a surf trip tomorrow. One last dose of warm water and tropical reef passes before heading into the snowy interior of British Columbia.

Just looking at this shot gets me fired up, this is from my trip last September to the Maldives.

This is a sequence of my friend Nathan from Raglan, NZ getting three barrels on one wave at Lohifushi.

This was probably the best surf day of my life, it was pumping all day, with sets at the end of the day being some of the heaviest I have ever surfed.

Drive By Shooting, Cairns, Australia Part 2

If you were a guy in North America playing this sport you would be considered a wanker, but in OZ, it's all good.


Check out that new high speed internet satellite dish, I am getting one installed at my office.
Everyone is always welcome at church, they need some cash too!


This guy would kick your freakin ass! You ever seen that movie Wolf Creek? Go watch it, based on a true story from the Outback.
I couldn't have asked for a better place for someone to ditch their couch. Made for a great photo, thank you.

Woolworths is like Wal-Mart of Australia.
Guess what this sign copied?

Canon s90 Review

I am not going to go into detail in describing features, functions, showing you test shots and blah blah blah. I will save that for all those geeky photo websites out there.

What I will say is that I shoot my point and shoot cameras constantly, whether it's for my Drive By Shooting Series, Editorial, or Advertising and Catalog shoots.

Point and shoot cameras are a really important part of my life and have been for the past 20 years.

I like this camera.

I haven't gone too deep with it as I just got it today. Took some test shots around the office, but I will say that right now, I am comfortable scrolling the ISO up to 400 and probably will shoot it at 800, even for print work.

Couple that with a 2.0 aperture and the IS that allows me to handhold around 1/15 if I am not too drunk and I think we have a winner.

Did I mention it's half the size of the G11?

It will actually fit in your shirt pocket, if you are the kind of douche that wears shirts with pockets.

In comparison to the G Series, I will gladly give up an external ISO dial and a bit of zoom, to have this compact beauty with the same Sensor and Image Processor and a 2.0 lens. The flash doesn't seem to perform as well as a G series, but with a 2.0 and 800 ISO who needs much flash anyway?

This thing blows doors on the G10 and G9 for overall image quality. It's about time someone stopped worrying about megapixels and went for image quality in a point and shoot.

No HD video is a total bummer, other than that, I dig this thing and it sure does seem like it's going to replace the G Series in my pocket at all times.

Drive By Shooting: Cairns, Australia Part 1

Typical 'Queenslander' home, built high to keep out water, crocs and all the snakes.

This was lucky that he saw me taking the pic and waved.
Why don't we have sick cars like this in the US?


They have some serious trucks in the Far North Queensland. These mates don't mess around.




This guy in the neckbrace has a cigarette in his hand. I probably would too.


The industry Cairns was built on: Sugar Cane.
Worked for me.