I will be speaking at the PDN Photo Plus expo in New York this year for the "Sports Photography Today" session. I had the opportunity to do this last year and am very grateful to be ask back again to act as newcomer on this panel with three of the greatest sports photography minds of all time.

I just got a few tear sheets (PDF's) from ESPN Rise magazine the other day as well as a nice surprise from SI in the mail. These photos where chosen by the magazine but were part of my initial edit when I sent them the raw files. The rise magazine photos booth ran at a page and a quarter (or so).

About a month or so ago I shot a few portraits of Jane Rah, a high school golf rock star who has already played in the LPGA tour. Here are some of my favorites and a few set ups. Sorry, I dont have more. It was a rush to get all the photos we needed in before the sunset. We met around 6:30 so we wouldn’t have to deal with such harsh light. I brought along my awesome assistants Chris and Brian to help trek the gear around the golf course. Luckily when we showed up we had a golf cart waiting for us to load up.

I have been doing a lot of portraits lately (as you can see) and after Jamie (my boss at Icon) sent some of my portraits to a few magazines I got a email from the editor at Rise with three upcoming assignments. Here are a few images from the first assignment. For the shot my two assistants and I hiked up the side of a hill to try and get away from the “school feel.” The girls were nice and once they got the “giggles” out of them they were awesome models for the shoot.

About two weeks after the first set of basketball portraits another tournament came up, this time it was at USC with a lot less players. Some of them I knew from the last time I took pictures of them which was cool. They opened up a lot more specially after I emailed them some of their last shots. This shoot I had three people helping me move stuff around which was nice because we had to move the set up twice. We had everything in place and we were waiting for the first player to show up when my arch nemesis the "event staff" showed up.

Last month I went to Tucson AZ for the Arizona Cactus Classic. It is a tournament for all the top high school basketball players in the country, we are talking next Lebron and kobe here. My job was to get portraits of all the players. I was first set up (by the tournament people) in a room with very little to work with. About three feet of shooting space, seriously. So I scouted around the arena and found a loading dock to take all the photos in.

I know, I know. Its weird. But I do take photos of things that do not have a stick and ball in them. This was an impromptu photo taken on a tram in Las Vegas at about 4 am when we were coming back from various casinos. The man in the back was pretty darn drunk but was able to hold his match long enough to get his face to glow. The guy in the front is my friend Dan.

The other day I got to witness history at the Los Angeles coliseum a place they haven't played in 50 years. To top that off there was over 115,300 people there! It was insane. I left 5 hours early just to get into the place. Also, make sure you check out the left field fence. It was only 200 feet long. I felt like i could have hit it out.

I got to go on a road trip recently to the San Francisco bay area and shoot a basketball game and some portraits of Australian basketball players from Saint Mary's college in Moraga CA. To top it off, the night before I shot a basketball game at UCLA which ended at 10 then I went straight to san fran after that and didn't get to my hotel in (scary scary) Oakland until 4am in the morning only to wake up at 9 to get ready for the portrait, FUN! Seriously, I had a great time. I had the help of a pro and some fun guys to shoot. Thanks for looking! This is the one they picked for Sports Illustrated.

So a few weeks ago I shot NASCAR for the first time. I was reallly bored the first two days but the last day I had some fun. Turns out there is much more to this than cars going in a circle. Thanks to Mark for being a pal and showing me the ropes. Here are some pictures from the last day. Any questions, please feel free to ask.