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Quick Pic 14 – There’s no place like home – The Cove / Three Tree Point – Normandy Park, WA

Erik Seo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:02:26 +0000

Wrenching on the salt

Erik Seo — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:33:21 +0000

If you’ve seen my twitter posts in the past week, I spent a few days on the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah shooting the FIA Bonneville Shootout land speed record attempt with 400+mph cars! For those that don’t know, the FIA is the governing body for race series like F1 (Formula 1) and the WRC (World Rally Championship). I ran across all sorts of people, but the mechanics seemed to be the most colorful out of all that was there. This guy (I can’t remember his name for the life of me) was pretty cool and with that beard, I had to take a few photos. What you see is what you get out there on the salt. Salt, lots of it. Wide open nothingness.

Quick Pic 13 – Welcome to Tokyo

Erik Seo — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:13:06 +0000

I came across this guy the first day in Tokyo, cruising through the insanely busy streets of the Shibuya district with Jen Hudak and Julian Carr last February. This guy, damn. If I were a bum, I’d probably look exactly like him. Scary look into the future huh? We tried to have an impromptu Discrete Headwear shoot but even after we offered him money, he declined. But I at least got this one.

5050 BMX King of the Mountain Best Trick at Powder Mountain, Utah

Erik Seo — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:54:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I got to go out and shoot at the 5050 BMX King of the Mountain Best Trick contest at Powder Mountain, Utah. I don’t get to shoot stuff like this very often so it was a treat for me to get out there for something like this. I’ll keep it short, it was a really fun event, the riders threw down and the crowd was great and got into it rather colorfully. See below for that.

Checking in from Montana

Erik Seo — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:38:02 +0000

I’m up here in Whitefish, Montana for my friend Jena’s wedding and it finally gave me some time to get over into Glacier National Park. As everyone’s told me, this place is amazing. I could spend the next 10 years on the trails and I’d still have so many new places to go. I don’t shoot a ton of scenics, but hiking around with the midget on my back (camera pack) I kinda have to. This photo of a wildflower meadow with Reynolds Mountain in the background from the Hidden Lake trail at Logan Pass was taken the day before my D3 went for a swim. RIP D3.

My favorite trees

Erik Seo — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:32:42 +0000

These are my favorite trees of any kind, the Albizia Tree (Silk Tree). They just make any scene look pretty cool. I shot this last week in Lawai, Hawaii while at a family reunion in Lihue, Hawaii.

Texture

Erik Seo — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:06:26 +0000

A little bike ride around the neighborhood with the camera and the macro lens and found myself climbing a fence to take photos of an abandoned building.

The long drive home

Erik Seo — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:13:26 +0000

Something I haven’t done in a long time, stop to smell the roses. A friend of mine suggested that I stop and smell the roses while travelling this spring through the month of terrain park shoots. Something I used to do on a regular basis, everywhere I went, I showed up late since I had a hard time not stopping everywhere, to take pictures. This time around on the drive from Bend, OR back home to Salt Lake City, Utah I actually pulled over and took some photos along the way of the 12 hour drive, turning it into about a 16 hour day…Nothing epic here, just wanted to share a few things from the road.

I stopped about 15 times along US 20 until I found a collection of these hay bales oriented in the right way.

GoPro Sunset Time Lapse – Level 1 Productions Sun Valley Volcano Jump session

Erik Seo — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:09:52 +0000

I’ve been wanting to do some time lapses lately but it always seems that I have my D300 (second camera body) being used as a second remote angle being triggered by Pocket Wizards. I recently just got a GoPro HD and a pile of mounts so suddenly I have a camera to run time lapses when I have my camera bag emptied out throughout the mountain! I stuck the GoPro HD with a handlebar mount in the snow, turned it on, walked away. Pretty mellow. I was pretty suprised how well it came out. I had to do some post work on the photos like I normally would, cropped and put together in Quicktime Pro.

This jump session with Level 1 Productions in Sun Valley, ID went down pretty well and we got a lot of shots. Now we are just waiting for round 2 to shoot out of the helicopter!

I’ll hopefully have time to do this the rest of the spring through all the terrain park shoots.

Sun Valley 2010 – The Cutting Room Floor – Part 1

Erik Seo — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:50:02 +0000

I’m currently at Sun Valley, Idaho where I’ve spent a bit of time over the past few years with the Level 1 and 4Bi9 crews doing some park shoots both in winter, and in the spring after closing. Since I’m here now I thought I’d post some of my favorite shots that didn’t make the cut for the magazines last year. This one is of Ian Cosco during a shoot for Scott Sports & Monster Energy. It’s not as apparent that it’s a shoot for Scott, as it is that Monster was involved with the shape of the jump…haha. I hope you can pick that one up yourself. Look for some more Sun Valley shots from last season to come through over the next few days.