Projects from Wilhelm Visual Works
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Interview with Digital Photo Pro magazine
Many thanks to Digital Photo Pro for the interview and portfolio feature. It was great chatting with Digital Photo Pro magazine about so many years of excellent mentorship under Rich Clarkson and alongside the fine team at Clarkson Creative, the last few years of building my own business and how I’m making the most of the latest Nikon…
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The Portraits
Over the last year or two a great deal of portrait work has come my way, much of it with artists via Red Bull Sound Select, and it’s been a real shift for me, as primarily a photojournalist, to adapt my shooting style to the more formalized portrait setting. The technical aspects of lighting have…
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The X Games Mastercraft Throwdown Wakeboard Event
Flew out to Grand Rapids last week for the Mastercraft Throwdown wakeboard event for World of X Games. Always appreciate trying my hand at new sports, not to mention spending the day on the water and even shooting some music to wrap the day. It was fun stepping in to the professional wakeboard community for…
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A Taste of Summer with Cured Boulder and Lyons Farmette
I gathered this time last week with good friends Will and Coral Frischkorn of Cured Boulder for their first farm dinner held in conjunction with the Lyons Farmette at Riverbend and numerous friends and suppliers in the local farm community. Roughly 30-40 guests gathered under a setting Wednesday sun to enjoy evening drinks and five courses…
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The Women of X Games Austin Portrait Shoot
We gathered the athletes of Women’s Skate Street, Moto Flat Track and Enduro X for a quick portrait shoot in the garages of the Circuit of the Americas at X Games Austin and here’s a slightly wide edit from the shoot of some of the better frames from each athlete. I had just a few minutes…
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Wrapping up the Winter Season in Whistler
Headed to the beautiful coastal range of the Sea to Sky highway for the season ending World Ski and Snowboard Festival and AFP World Tour Finals in Whistler Blackcomb, Canada. Had a great week of photography and generally enjoying the festival, even in what was a low snow year for the area. It quickly settled…
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Photographing the NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship Weekend
Just returned from a week in Indianapolis at the 2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four at Lucas Oil Stadium. Always a highlight of the year and a chance to reconnect with my former colleagues at NCAA Photos. Always love stepping back in to the Big Dance once a year. I’m not a true basketball fan, but…
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A Hat Tip to Clarkson on his 60th Final Four!
We’re once again in the midst of NCAA March Madness and, as the tournament draws to a close tonight and Monday in Indianapolis, I’m joining back up with my former colleagues at NCAA Photos and be courtside for my 15th Final Four alongside my friend and mentor Rich Clarkson. Clarkson is a living legend of college…
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An NCAA Final Four Basketball Tutorial
The Final Four week, likely the NCAA’s largest event every year, is a flurry of preparation, logistics and photographic coverage, starting well before tipoff of Saturday’s national semifinals. One of my duties each year, early in the week, is mounting our four NCAA Photos Nikon backboard and stanchion pool cameras, which during the course…
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On the Road to the NCAA Basketball Final Four with NCAA Courtside
It’s time once again for March Madness and I’m back on the road alongside my former colleagues at NCAA Photos to cover NCAA Basketball for the NCAA Courtside project, giving fans at home not only another angle on the action, but also everything else going on surrounding the games, the fans, bands, cheerleaders, team huddles,…
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Air & Style Los Angeles, the best of Ski, Snowboard and Music hits Pasadena
At bit late to post about the good times at Air and Style LA, but really enjoyed a weekend of the best in Ski, Snowboard and Music descended on the Pasadena Rose Bowl grounds for the first ever US stop of the annual Air & Style series. Rain hampered the hard work of Snow Park Technologies…
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Light & Color with Rose Quartz and Red Bull Sound Select
Headed down to Denver Friday night to shoot this month’s Red Bull Sound Select Presents Denver, this time in the new venue of Lost Lake. Some great acts on the lineup, but one of my local faves Rose Quartz kind surprised me with the last second addition of a smoke machine to the stage, which,…
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Red Bull Sound Select Music Series
Been having a lot of fun the past few months photographing the new and established talents of Red Bull Sound Select at area shows around Denver. It’s been full of creative inspiration and not without technical challenge to photograph artists in a variety of venues, and happy to say I’ve been exposed to numerous new acts…
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Boulder Cycling Culture Image featured on the new NY Times Travel Photo Feed
Received a note yesterday from the NY Times Travel Photo Feed that the recent update featured another outtake from the Boulder Cycling Culture Story published earlier this month. The relatively new Photo Feed slideshow is a great addition to the site and a perfect avenue to showcase outtakes from their broad range of stories on…
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Wireless Image Transmission with Nikon and Photoshelter
UPDATE: Great to see the piece reposted by Photoshelter and featured on ISO1200! We hope you learn from the following guide how relatively easy it is today to set up your own wireless digital image transmission system, leveraging off-the-shelf technology from Nikon and Photoshelter, and thus keep pace with larger agencies and other news sources to transmit…
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The Cycling Culture of Boulder Colorado for NY Times Travel
Nice to see a story package I shot for The New York Times a few weeks back on Boulder’s cycling culture go live on the NY Times Travel site today, looking forward to the full print package this weekend! Spent a few mornings in some of Boulder‘s most fertile cycling grounds, exploring what makes riding in…
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The Mentors Gallery
New gallery up on XGames.com on the great Mentors in the the relatively young history of Action Sports and the prodigal talents they helped inspire. It was fun digging back in the archives of the past few years to draw up some X Games legends as well as brightest young talents.
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Photographing Cam Zink’s 100ft MTB Mammoth Backflip for World of X Games
UPDATE 09/02/2014: Nice to see the tutorial video picked up by Fstoppers, ISO1200 and by DIY Photography! Headed out to Mammoth Mountain CA last week for the World of X Games and the Guiness World Record breaking #MammothFlip event, where Cam Zink broke new ground, backflipping a mountain bike over 100ft from dirt to dirt before…
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The Bike Culture of Boulder for New York Times Travel
Spent the last few days exploring the bike culture of Boulder and photographing cycling around the area in all its forms. Looking forward to seeing the story later this week!
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From Founding to Freeride, the evolution of MTB
To kick off a fairly cycling-centric week for me, on the eve of heading to Mammoth for Cam Zink’s world record 100ft MTB Monster Backflip attempt, I put on my editors hat and spent the last few days, with the help of many great friends in the cycling community, tracing the arc of MTB history…
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