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Humboldt River
Here is the Humboldt River in Elko during sunset. We have a footbridge next to our house. Normally, the Humboldt doesn’t offer much of a sight since it barely has running water most of the year, but in the early spring it had enough water to give off a nice blue sheen. I’m [...]
Shootin’ Hoops
In the spirit of March Madness and the Final Four on Saturday, I decided to share a photo of the basketball hoop I grew up with as a farmer’s kid in Eastern Montana. I remember watching plenty of basketball games and then taking my joy or frustration out on this hoop hanging from the barn. [...]
Up close and personal
I took this photo last fall when I got an incredible opportunity to hike up the Goshute Mountain south of West Wendover, Nevada. I met up with some people involved with a Migration Project. Although it looks like this sharp-shinned hawk was out by itself in the wilderness it was actually captured and held by [...]
Sunset stretch
Here’s a photo I took at the recent Ruby Mountain Relay. I was really excited, because the runners run all through the night and I thought I could get some really cool photos with all the different lighting situations. This one I ended up taking right at sunset in the middle of a lonely highway. [...]
Intense Elko mine training
So I got the chance to check out the Elko Safety Olympiad a couple weekends ago. It’s a competition where all these different gold mines around Elko bring their emergency responders and compete to see who’s best at saving lives. I had out my wide angle lens and when I saw these shoes on the [...]
A little bit of fashion
So I took this photo last week for an advertisement for Haleys in Elko. The store sells jewelry as you can see she’s wearing a bunch of jewelry. One of my coworkers brought the cowboy hat, and at the time I was thinking that it might look a little hokey with her grabbing the hat [...]
Trashin’ Fashion Show
I took this shot at the Trashin’ Fashion Show in Elko put on by the local roller derby girls. This derby girl had one of the most popular dresses of the night, a porn card dress. However, for obvious reasons I couldn’t put it in the paper, but still this was probably my favorite shot [...]
Elko Dump
I took this picture of the Elko dump on the way back from the animal shelter. I don’t think I did the actual scene justice. There was so many seagulls and the sky in Elko was actually interesting, not the usual cloudless sunny sky. The sky, in particular, was maybe the missing ingredient of [...]
Missed Opportunity
I took this photo a couple weeks ago for Spring Creek’s first home series. Here the West Wendover catcher ends up missing a pop fly, but I didn’t have his name and I don’t think it would have made the newspaper anyway. I still think it’s a great scene though. The ball is right on [...]
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