Call me a generalist, my work argues I’m a specialist … at many things. A lifetime of compulsively chasing better, has my photography, writing, design, and web dev producing compound interest in my forties. My best yet to come, my past right below 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼
Photography Work
I come from the school of Sports and Journalism with peak emotion, an accurate portrayal of events, and true to life colour coursing through my veins. A lot of my focus lately is with portraits — particularly environmental portraits. See more of my photography work here.
Team Canada — Sitting Volleyball vs USA / ITA
If you haven’t photographed a court sport in a while, start with one you’ve never seen before, void of the sports typical access high above, and make sure the venue has terrible light with horrendous backgrounds.
Campers Village Fun Photo Friday
I make one rule when I start. Every Friday, haul your Elinchrom ELB400 / Elinchrom Deep Octa 100, accompanying accessories, 20lb camera bag, and carve out time that afternoon to do an environmental portrait.
Faces of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials – Marathon
On February 29, 2020, all of American distance running congregates in Atlanta, GA for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Marathon. Also my four year celebration documenting running.
2019 Toronto Waterfront Marathon
Race weekends are always special, and my 2019 Toronto Waterfront Marathon is no different. My photo story sponsored by Mile2Marathing running.
NAZ Elite Training on Grass in Flagstaff
It’s a fresh -3C before the sun is fully exposed as I get dropped off on Northern Arizona University (NAU) campus, using Walkup Stadium as my landmark, but really having no idea where I am.
The Speed Project 4.0 — 340 Miles in 46 Frames over 46 Hours
The Speed Project 4.0 is a 340 mile relay race from Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles to the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign on S Las Vegas Blvd., with no other rules.
2018 NYC Marathon Week: Des Linden at Custom Performance
The NYC Marathon does not occur just on Sunday. It’s marathon week in New York, and I am in Midtown to shoot an evening with Des Linden.
Design Work
Rooted in the awesome magnetism of 80’s neo-conservative deregulated media, my blossoming design portfolio dates back to the geometric shapes and colour of that era. See more of my design work here.
Brand-A-Day Giveaway — Campaign Design
The annual promotion is a nine day, nine contest, nine brand, nine mini-campaign design and social media blitz. The primary goal is increasing the Campers Village Campers Club email newsletter — we increase subscriber count by 1827 🙌.
Alliecat Peterson 10K TT — Race Kit Design
Everyone is isolating, but runners are still training. Time trials are all the rage in-between stupid push up and food challenges — first time isolaters 🙄.
Northern Distance Project — Logo & Identity Design
A fun little Logo and pseudo identity design project that was never used. I might have never pitched it to the team now that I actually think about it.
Team SASK — Identity, Web, & Merchandise Design
My best stories start with a question, “can we make something like that work?” What Karen does not realize is, I’ve already got ideas … a lot of them.
Writing
Narrative journalism best describes my writing. I love to jump in medias res, get to the heart of it, and immerse readers in the world my mind is occupying. Photos often accompany my words, with total immersion the goal. See more of my writing here.
The Comforting Isolation of Winter Camping on Campers-Village.com
The trees are heavy with snow, bending, unable to even sway in the gentle breeze … it is definitely snowshoe season on the Berg Lake Trail.
Why I’m Afraid to Run During Coronavirus on Runners World
From high mileage months culminating in back-to-back 80 mile weeks, to zero running under quarantine. The virus has me afraid to run at all.
The Symbiotic Partnership of Allie Kieffer & Coach Hudson on TEMPO
A blossoming relationship that has lead to personal records and wins for Allie Kieffer, and professional growth for coach Brad Hudson.
TSP4.0 — THE EXCHANGE on Ciele
It typically has an RV or support vehicle present, is completely different for everyone involved every time, and will happen — on average — over one hundred and thirty times for a team of six. The exchange.
Web Development
At the root of everything I do is code. I’m a web developer/programmer/code geek, whatever you want to call it. If it’s digital, I can speak with and modify it … for the better.
Wîsakipakos — Indigenous Bitters
The email comes in, and less than four days later, we have a functioning WooCommerce site ready to sell Indigenous Bitters online.
Mile2Marathon.com — Dev, Design, Strategy
When Dylan Wykes mentions managing 125’ish athletes on-boarding & monthly payments with Google Forms & Sheets, I throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Religion.Run — Dev, Design, Content
We sit in Peter’s living room, whiskey in hand, and discuss what it is exactly I am planning to do with this story and the portraits we just took.
