Rafa Botello – twilight portraits shot on flash

shooting professional athlete Rafa Botello for my ‘Twilight Portraits’ series of images, I had the shot set up perfectly and was all prepped and ready for that all too short window of twilight that comes and goes in a flash.
Here you see the light and the balance is perfect but I had wanted to make this a moving image and just as Rafa set off his tyre blew out and he had to do a quick change…Fast as he was the light fell faster into the night to make this much of a differnce but while, to me at least, the top shot is more technically well balanced I still prefer the moving one below.

professional athlete Rafa Botello shots on ambient

Rafa Botello gym session – all shot for Trisense Magazine using only available ambient light….

california is a place

California Is A Place is a cool sounding name for a talented collective of inspired and inspirational film makers. I love the idea of collaborative groups and sometimes wish that competition and the market place didn’t drive a wedge of insecurity between us all. If we all worked together more often maybe we could all produce something like this….

From Cannonball about a group of skaters who seek out empty pools to ride in the abandoned landscapes of the American dream gone broke to Scrapertown’s urban hero Baby Champ who gives identity, self esteem and a sense of purpose to the youth of Oakland through the highly specialised customisation of their push bikes.

graphics and graffiti

I love subtle light.
I love strong light.
I love, graphics, graffiti and urban decay.
I love hi tech and lo tech.
I love colour and black & white.
I love movement and static shots.
I want to keep my mind open and my eyes peeled for anything that catches them….

graphics, graffiti, nyc and nigel sylvester

collating my images for a self published book of nyc urban portraits and couldn’t resist posting these – one of which includes bmx legend Nigel Sylvester
Took some action shots as well but I just preferred the graphics of this simple straight on – even if it was a bugger of a shot to compose!!!