Wrestling! Did I mention wrestling? Oh, and by the way, wrestling. Photography is a big part of my life and I have merged my main two interests with wrestling and photography and am doing whatever I can to maximize that effort. I am also a poker fan having spent a couple years playing professionally. I like camping, but I don't get a chance to do it anymore with all my time off dedicated to covering wrestling. I like Olympic sports, reality TV, and trivia.
Music
rock, classic rock, reggae, ballads, jazz, folk, progressive rock, - individually:
PINK FLOYD AND YES - those are the top two by far!!! abba, ac/dc, air supply, alan white, america, art garfunkel, asia, australian pink floyd, beastie boys, bill bruford, billy joel, black-eyed peas, blink-182, blondie, blue oyster cult, bob marley, bootsy collins, boston, burt bacharach, cake, cat stevens, charlie daniels, cheap trick, chris squire, counting crows, crack the sky, cream, creedence clearwater revival, crosby-stills-nash-young, dan fogleberg, dave matthews, david bowie, david gilmour, def leppard, depeche mode, dick dale, dire straits, donovan, dr. hook, dr. john, duran duran, earth, wind, and fire, electric light orchestra, elvis costello, elvis presley, emerson, lake & palmer, eric clapton, eurythmics, everly brothers, fleetwood mac, foreigner, frank sinatra, freddie mercury, genesis, good charlotte, green day, harry connick jr., heart, j. geils band, jackson browne, jethro tull, jim croce, jim morrison, jimi hendrix, jimmy buffett, joe satriani, johnny cash, jon anderson, jon carin, joss stone, k's choice, kim carnes, king crimson, knee deep shag, led zeppelin, lenny kravitz, marvin gaye, miles davis, nat king cole, nick mason, no doubt, norah jones, peter gabriel, philip glass, pink floyd, plain white t's, police, queen, red hot chili peppers, reo speedwagon, rick wakeman, rick wright, robbie robertson, roger waters, rush, shawn phillips, steely dan, steve howe, steve miller, steve vai, sting, styx, sugar hill gang, supertramp, survivor, syd barrett, talking heads, terence trent-d'arby, the american night, the band, the beach boys, the beatles, the bee gees, the buggles, the byrds, the carpenters, the cars, the clash, the commodores, the doobie brothers, the doors, the eagles, the fugies, the go-go's, the hooters, they might be giants, van morrison, will smith, yes.
Movies
Here they are in their entirety, well...mostly...but I figure I needed to throw some asterisks next to some special ones! 12 Angry Men, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Air Force One, Airplane!, *All the President's Men*, All the Right Moves, The Andromeda Strain, Angel Heart, Apocalypse Now, As Good as It Gets, The Bad News Bears, A Beautiful Mind, Black Hawk Down, Black Rain, Blazing Saddles, Born on the Fourth of July, **The Breakfast Club**, *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*, Caddyshack, Cast Away, Chasing Amy, Chinatown, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color of Money, The Color Purple, *The Commitments*, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cruel Intentions, Dances With Wolves, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Dead Man Walking, Dead Poets Society, Diamonds Are Forever, Do the Right Thing, The Doors, Erin Brockovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Excalibur, Fargo, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fatal Attraction, *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas*, Forrest Gump, From Russia With Love, Full Metal Jacket, ***Glengarry Glen Ross***, *The Godfather*, The Godfather: Part II, GoodFellas, *Grease*, Groundhog Day, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Heathers, I Am Sam, Kelly's Heroes, The Last Castle, The Last Samurai, Life Is Beautiful, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Lost in Translation, Malcolm X, Man on Fire, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Manchurian Candidate, *Marathon Man*, **M*A*S*H**, The Matrix, The Matrix: Reloaded, *Meatballs*, Men of Honor. Midway, Minority Report, Misery, Monster, Moonlight Mile, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mystic River, National Lampoon's Animal House, The Natural, Never Say Never Again, An Officer and a Gentleman, *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*, The Outsiders, Papillon, Patriot Games, Patton, Philadelphia, The Pianist, *Pink Floyd: The Wall*, Planet of the Apes (1968), Platoon, **Pretty in Pink**, Psycho (1960), **Pulp Fiction**, Raiders of the Lost Ark, *Rain Man*, A Raisin in the Sun, Ray, Real Genius, The Right Stuff, Rising Sun, Road to Perdition, ***Rounders***, Saving Private Ryan, *Scarface*, Scent of a Woman, Schindler's List, Serpico, sex, lies, and videotape, ***The Shawshank Redemption***, *The Shining*, The Silence of the Lambs, Slap Shot, Sling Blade, Some Kind of Wonderful, Spider-Man, St. Elmo's Fire, *Stalag 17*, *Stand by Me*, Star Wars: Episode III, Star Wars: Episode V: Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, The Sting, Taxi Driver, The Ten Commandments, The Terminal, Thunderball, *Tombstone*, Traffic, Troy, Vertigo, What Dreams May Come, Wild Things, The Witches of Eastwick, Wonder Boys
Television
I am a big reality show fan because I think it gives great insight into human behavior under stressful conditions. Specifically I really like: 1 vs 100, American Idol, American Inventor, BIG BROTHER (I've seen every episode from all 10 seasons), Biggest Loser, Beauty and the Geek, For Love or Money, Paradise Hotel, Pros vs. Joes, Real World, Road Rules, Survivor, Temptation Island, The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Biggest Loser, The Joe Schmoe Show, Ultimate Fighter, Unan1mous, Age of Love, Science of Love, Pirate Master, So You Think You Can Dance, On The Lot, Last Comic Standing, The Academy, Deadliest Catch, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, The Simple Life, Sunset Tan, Flavor of Love, Hell's Kitchen, Top Chef, The Villa, Solitary, Shear Genius, Treasure Island, Project Runway, Kid Nation, The Mole.
All Poker shows: World Poker Tour, Poker Superstars, World Series of Poker, High Stakes Poker, etc. These are particularly cool when I am in the middle of editing pictures and can't really look, but I definitely listen!
Also: 24, CSI, Law & Order, Lost, Northern Exposure, Prison Break, Seinfeld, Jericho, Heroes, Twin Peaks, Vegas, NUMB3RS, My Own Worst Enemy, The Mentalist.
Books
Too many to list. I have read thousands, but I will list my favorite authors: Ayn Rand - "The Fountainhead", "Atlas Shrugged", and the much underappreciated "We The Living", Stephen King - damn near everything except for "Pet Cemetary", "Cujo" and "Cell", Richard Bach - thanks for giving me the foundations of philosophy for my entire life, Greg Iles - story master, Clive Cussler - historical tale weaver, Michael Crichton - technology big picture kahuna, David Baldacci - suspense tangles, John Grisham - the main stream stuff is good, "A Painted House" is the best, Tom Clancy - Jack Ryan is a superhero with a bureaucratic, transparent cape, Dean Koontz - between Koontz and King there isn't much separation alphabetically or imaginationally, Hunter S. Thompson - not just a voice for the "beat generation", Jonathan Bach - a son with a similar expressive gift, Thanks for an evening of chat at the Triangle those many years ago, James Webb - one of the original reasons I started reading voraciously. There are more!
Heroes
Cael Sanderson, Cal Ripken Jr., Roger Staubach, Lance Armstrong, & Dr. Erik Shane
If I know you, feel free to add me as a friend on Facebook. If I don't know you, sorry it is too much to keep track of so many people on both sites. Here is the link:
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Last year I was voted onto the Board of Directors for the Washington State Wrestling Association. I hope I can help promote wrestling for this state and be an asset to our wrestling community...
I was also named the 2007 'Wrestling USA' National Photographer-of-the-Year!!! It was a huge surprise and I was pretty excited about it.
I am in the serious constant struggle to put my skills to the test to advance everyone around me because that is what it is all about! I work. I take photographs. I love wrestling.
It's ironic to me that people, given the independent financial means to determine their course have a difficult time deciding what they would do. Not me. Let me win the lottery (of course, with the implied odds, I never play it, but let's just say) I know exactly what I would do. I'd forego much of the hedonism and material posessions (why spend a couple grand on a watch, when my G-shock tells time with the best of them?). Instead, I would be all about one thing - doing road trips to wherever the best wrestling was going on in the State of WA. or beyond to capture it for those individuals and posterity. This sport in this country needs more of a media presence and that would be my absolute motivation. Any philanthropic wrestling aficionados ready to pony up and stake me? If not, I'll just keep plugging away at the goal one day at a time. Look for me at a matside near you.
My first nationally published photo:
Here is the link to get to my website and all the PHOTOGRAPHS (click on the cheetah)!
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Here are some pictures of me with the best poker players in the world. These players ROCK!
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Who I'd like to meet: I get to meet great people on a regular basis in the wrestling community. I am so fortunate to be part of such a great sport. Hey if you want to talk to many of those great folks, check out www.washingtonwrestlingreport.com which is run by my good friend Dave Gilbertson.
thank you so much for all the pictures you took! they are absoutly amazing! way better than the last years ones! i love them so much! thank you again for being there and taking those. you are an amazing photographer, and i wouldnt have all these memorys to keep it if wasnt for you! thanks again! you are the best!
he was riding his motorcycle through yelm and my mom was driving behind him in my dads car because they went and picked up his bike. anyways he was slowing down and the bike just slid kinda and landed on his ankle and he slid under the truck in front of him. i guess he popped right up and tried to start walking but he fell down cause his ankle was screwed up. it happened today so its not that serious but he cut open his ankle pretty bad and there was internel bleeding or something. he is good though no worries i just want him home
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