Saturday, December 10, 2011

Birdie La Roux of The Cigarette Girls Burlesque

 Birdie La Roux (aka Robin Rose-Rice) of the Cigarette Girls Burlesque was practicing for her upcoming show and let me sit in with her and take a few photos...if her performance on stage is anything like her practice I can't wait for the show!















Friday, December 9, 2011

Chicken Harvest

We recently harvested our chickens at the farm and I decided to document the process. Tyler had spent the weekend before processing almost 50 at his wife's family farm so he was well versed and showed us what to do. It's always difficult to witness the killing of these brilliantly decorated birds, but something I feel I needed to watch if I choose to eat this animal that was raised in my backyard. It's not pretty. But what is beautiful is knowing that each animal was raised in a healthy environment, free to run and roost and socialize (and squabble) as chickens do. Feeling each bird had a good and free life makes the death, the processing and the meal that much more enjoyable to me. 

Warning to the queasy: their are images of dead chickens.   




























Wednesday, October 19, 2011

BIKES!

I have been working with Seattle photographer Jay Goodrich shooting the Doubletree Hotel the past few days when we decided to take a break and see if we could get some riders to do some jumps for us. We had a blast photographing Abraham Jindrich, Alex Bardsley, Kent Billingsley, Snake, and other local rockstars. These kids ride FAST! Here are my favorites-Jay shoots for Bike Magazine so hopefully we'll see some of them in the 'zine soon! Thanks guys!