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  • Wireless Nikon Speedlight fun at Red Bull Sound Select

    Wireless Nikon Speedlight fun at Red Bull Sound Select

    Had a blast photographing the Underground Music Showcase for Red Bull Sound Select Presents: Denver last weekend and assembled a quick gallery of some of my favorites from the evening.  A series of four great local and national talents graced the stage that night, including Wild High, Astronautalis, Tanlines and People Under the Stairs. Considering…

  • The Keystone Big Mountain Enduro

    The Keystone Big Mountain Enduro

    Had a great time up at Keystone Mountain Resort this weekend photographing and catching up with some of my oldest friends Jeremy Horgan Kobelski and Heather Irmiger in their second season of Big Mountain Enduro racing. It was a blast camping with them off Lake Dillon and capturing the action on mountain both days. Photographing…

  • Best Images from X Games Austin

    Best Images from X Games Austin

    Happy to share an ongoing gallery of our best photography from X Games Austin!  We’ll continue to update the gallery each day with additional imagery from all the action here in Texas.  Also working up a great post on our wireless digital image transmission system using off the shelf technology from Nikon and Photoshelter in…

  • Red Bull Sound Select

    Red Bull Sound Select

    Got back in the swing of things on the music front this week with a great shoot for Red Bull at the Sound Select presents Denver.  Photographing in the club scene is always both a challenge technically but a blast visually. Threw together a quick 15 image edit from the night.  Hope you enjoy.

  • A Basketball Backboard Camera Tutorial from the NCAA Final Four

    A Basketball Backboard Camera Tutorial from the NCAA Final Four

    UPDATE (5/20): Happy to see a feature on Fstoppers ,  PetaPixel post the video tutorial  and POP Photo run the piece this morning! Created a short video produced on location at the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four, documenting the NCAA Photos setup of our Nikon D4s through-the-glass backboard cameras, including general settings, mounting, safety concerns and triggering/networking methods.…

  • Building Your Outdoor & Adventure Photography Business

    Building Your Outdoor & Adventure Photography Business

    UPDATE: Photoshelter has now released an excerpt on their blog, a great way to get a teaser on some of the content before you download the guide. Had the great good fortune to help contribute to Photoshelter’s latest guide, Building Your Outdoor & Adventure Photography Business, alongside friends and fellow pros Corey Rich, Lucas Gilman, Chris…

  • Photographing the Red Bull Wings For Life World Run – Night Action with the New Nikon D4s

    Photographing the Red Bull Wings For Life World Run – Night Action with the New Nikon D4s

    Had a fun shoot for Red Bull last weekend, the Wings for Life World Run in Denver. Since the global world run included events in 35 different countries, all starting at the exact same time, our shoot included a 2:45am call time and 4am race start. Thus the first two hours of the race, winding…

  • Tips for Photographing Winter Action Sports

    Tips for Photographing Winter Action Sports

      UPDATE: Happy to see this picked up by PetaPixel and Iso1200. Thanks so much for sharing! Produced a short Tips for Photographing Winter Action Sports video during the 2014 Burton US Open Snowboard Pipe Finals highlighting both my standard on-snow action sports photography setup, plus various tips and tricks to stay prepared for whatever snowy environments might throw…

  • NCAA Courtside – March Madness Basketball

    NCAA Courtside – March Madness Basketball

    Back from the early rounds of the 2014 NCAA Basketball March Madness shooting for NCAA Photos and Turner, a really great project assembled at NCAA.com/Courtside highlighting all the action surrounding the games…the fans, bands, coaches, cheerleaders, celebrations and beyond. A fun creative assignment and I’ve assembled a quick edit of some of my favorite images…

  • A Proud New Member of 1% For The Planet

    A Proud New Member of 1% For The Planet

      Very happy to announce that Wilhelm Visual Works is a proud new member of 1% For The Planet, pledged to contribute at least one percent of annual revenues to qualified nonprofit partners committed to creating a healthy planet. As an environmental science graduate that years ago somewhat accidentally derailed into a wonderful career in visual communications, joining…

  • Supporting Protect Our Winters

    Supporting Protect Our Winters

    I’ve joined Protect Our Winters and set up an annual donation to help support this great climate advocate and rider-driven alliance, founded by professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones. While the work of the foundation spans the seasons, the central ethos is linked directly to one of my favorite times of the year and an absolutely magical…

  • Burton Open in the Vail Backyard

    Burton Open in the Vail Backyard

    Had a great time last week closing out the competitive snowboard season at the Burton US Open right in my veritable second home this winter, Vail, CO. Not only made for some great images, featured lots of relaxed end of season vibes, but also was really great to settle home each evening.  Hope you enjoy.…

  • Sports Illustrated Olympic Preview Work

    Sports Illustrated Olympic Preview Work

      Had the great good fortune of working for the fine folks at Sports Illustrated during the run up to Sochi, photographing a large hit list of US and International Olympic hopefuls as so many talents descended on Colorado to train and compete in the great early season snow.  Happy to see a few images…

  • Winter Action Sports Photo Tips for Instagram

    Winter Action Sports Photo Tips for Instagram

    With the worldwide debut of Olympic slopestyle as well as ski pipe this month in Sochi,  I wanted to reshare some fun I had putting together some winter action sports photography tips for the Instagram Blog last month tied to my work for the ESPN X Games.    Not only was it a fun little…

  • Looking to the Future with a Word of Heartfelt Thanks

    Looking to the Future with a Word of Heartfelt Thanks

      Looking back on a transformative 2013, I’ve cherished fully embracing adventure and action sports, rediscovered a love for the mountains I call home, and rekindled a passion for the outdoors, the environment, and photography in general. With that, the impetus to move out on my own and launch Wilhelm Visual Works. As I enter…

  • Creativity at the top of the World

    Creativity at the top of the World

    The boys over at Camp 4 Collective continue to astonish me with their storytelling, creativity and execution.  Layer on top that they’re pulling it all together on a laptop in a tent at 6,000m on the roof of Nepal and transmitting from a sat phone and they truly stand alone.  Check out the trailer at…

  • Jarvis on Creativity

    Jarvis on Creativity

    A video from Chase Jarvis’s excellent talk on creativity to the Art Director’s Club of Denver.  The hour long presentation is definitely worth a watch for Black Collar Workers anywhere.

  • The New New Testament

    The New New Testament

    File this under “wish I’d thought of that”, Dag Soderberg recently left a creative director post to release a version of the Bible, illustrated (and thus interpreted) with modern stock (read abstract) photography.  I’m not a religious person by any means, but a chance to lend your influence to easily the world’s most well read…

  • Coworking Communities

    In the last 15 years, laptops and the internet have fueled a new generation of freelancers, telecommuters and entrepreneurs. Many have turned to home offices, cafes and occasionally, executive suites, while they hammer away at the next Google, the next Amazon or the next TiVo. While most love the freedom and flexibility of being on…

  • How’d they do that?

    Being in the image business, I’m always keeping an eye out for cutting edge work and spend a lot of time looking at other photographers’ work and new commercial campaigns coming down the pipe.  Often the most breathtaking work is met with a “How’d they do that!?!?!” and the answer in reality is quite often…