Action Sports Project

Austin Bender, 14, makes good use of the break from the rain to test his new bike setup in preparation for the upcoming outdoor season. One week prior, this track was impossible to walk on, but a week of wind and a day of sun left for ideal conditions.

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I like the angle this was shot at, it looks like she is looking down the alley but you cant see what she sees. Her tattoos make her skin match the graffiti on the walls.

My neighborhood

Living at the top of Witham Hill there are not any stores that are close by, so that is why I do all my small item shopping at the Country Market & Deli. The store sits by itself on Walnut Rd. in front of the Welcome Home trailer park.



Erin Boyd manages the Oak Vale office during office hours at my apartment complex. She was spotted here chatting outside the office door with a fellow employee.
Robert West, 20, pushes Oak Vale Apartment's poor broken down John Deer back to it's parking spot. Looks like it is missing a few chunks of plastic off the fenders.

Critique: I like my photos except I do not really feel my portrait mainly because it is lightly blurry. I will most likely re-shoot it and try to find a better and more scenic area for the next portrait.

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This photo I found in flickr I feel is amazing. The timing could not have been more perfect as it gets the surfer approaching a wave that a dolphin is riding within, but the dolphins is also huge compared to the surfer. If that were me I would probably not realize that's a dolphin but rather mistake it for a shark and flee for my life.

Feature/critique

Adam Metzler, 21, gets his bike sideways for spectating friends at secret location on the outskirts of Gatson, Oregon.

Critique: The whole day shooting here I was getting very frustrated with the sun, for it washed out a bunch of really good shots. Here only the tops of the trees and sky is washed out, but I am still happy that the rider and hillside with people on it came out with good color, just a little pixelated.

It's All in the Hips.

Cody Hollen from Banks, Or. Shows how its done, sliding through a hard packed and very dusty corner on a private track in Hillsboro.

Austin Bender, 14, from Hillsboro, Or. Rips apart a corner after corner at home on his practice track.
Thank god for my little bother who gave me plenty to do and photograph over the summer while myself was healing up from ACL surgery, and I have to say if your going to shoot on a cloudless day in the summer you better have a polarizer they help a ton.