September 20th, 2009 by admin

At last, its almost bearable outside and the sporting events are filling up my calendar.   Lately I’ve been working on a photography project to benefit the soon-to-be-built Virginia Piper Sport & Fitness Center in Phoenix.  The first project is to create a 2010 caledar featuring 12 local athletes participating in their sport or recreation of choice.

So this weekend we photographed Greg Hockensmith in his road racing hand bike.  He is one of the coaches at the monthly hand-bike clinic held at ElDorado Park in Scottsdale, that is sponsored by the Arizona Disabled Sports Association.  Jerry O’Conner was the principal shooter and will no doubt have some great photos, but here’s a few I squeezed in.

Many thanks to Greg for enduring the heat.  Stay tuned for more shots.

April 22nd, 2009 by admin

Hand Cycling is a great escape from the day to day rigors of using a wheelchair. First off, they are comfortable and you need’nt be working so hard to keep your balance. The second cool thing is you can go pretty fast and the breeze in your face feels great. Definitely a good work out.

So the good guys at Phoenix Parks & Recreation offer Tuesday night cycling for free. I’ve indulged in the past but wanted to get some motion shots. Only problem is there was no motion to be shot. So I got one descent shot of Renee Tyree using a bare strobe off camera left that was pretty close to what I wanted.

Getting a low angle shots from a wheelchair isnt easy. I use a small monopod and turn the camera upside down. I then just lower the camera and guestimate whats in the frame. Using a wide angle lens gives the photo some cool perspective. In this shot I cropped out just a little on the left.

Hopefully this entry is work in progress and I can add some more action shots along the way.