Tour De Fat

This event isn't what it sounds like it would.... This bicycle event is put on by the brewers of Fat Tire beer, whose logo is a bicycle... It is a huge bicycle parade through the Tempe streets and ends up at a beer festival where you can test out some custom bicycles. It's a good time.

Mad One

The College Times did a feature on a local graffiti artist who goes by the street name Mad One... I've worked with him in the past and he always asks me to hide his face. Previously I would photoshop his mob boss logo over his face in the photos, but i thought it better to have him wear his paint mask instead this time.

The Grand Canyon

I've lived in Arizona my entire life and have been to the Grand Canyon on a number of occasions. But in all those trips to the Canyon I had only ever been to visitor centers and tourist attractions along its edge and never ventured into it.

In September, two friends and I took a 4-day hiking/camping trip along the north rim of the Canyon to Deer Creek where we set up our final camp and stayed for a day and a half. It was one of the most grueling, physically and mentally demanding things I have ever endured, but the end result was worth the pain. In the seclusion of Deer Creek, standing in the cold fast-flowing waters that helped form the immense Canyon over millennia, I experienced a powerful yet humbling connection with the Earth that recharged my emotional and spiritual batteries.

These photos don't convey the experience in the least, but I hope that an appreciation for the sheer pristine natural beauty of this secluded place gives you some idea the effect it had on me. I am forever changed.