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I’ll be speaking in Boston on Tuesday, June 8 as part of a Canon-sponsored lecture series. The talk is titled “Capturing The Dramatic Moment,” and is open to the public, so please spread the word! I will share stories, photos and films from recent assignments, including flying with F-16 fighter pilots and documenting the dangerous lives of underground coal miners. I will also screen my latest DSLR video project, The Fall Line, a short film on a wounded warrior who becomes a Paralympic ski racer. Please click here to reserve tickets.

Popular Science’s June 2010 issue features several images I shot of Anthony Le and his Iron Man suit near Golden, Colorado. Anthony made an incredible replica of the suit and has even worn the suit to cheer up children at the Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. I used two sidelights and a backlight add a sense of drama to the scene and to underexpose the ambient light, making the sky and clouds richer.

I was honored to have two award winners in the annual American Photography 26 contest. The first image is of Colorado’s 120th Fighter Squadron pilot Captain TenEyck LaTourrette flying in formation with other F-16 pilots over Pikes Peak. Please see the July 2010 issue of 5280 magazine for the full feature.

The second image is of a 7-year-old boy named Lalo foraging in a Guatemalan landfill. It is one of my favorite journalistic photos, for the sense of hardship and lost youth that Lalo conveys. The photo was taken as part of a volunteer documentary project on Guatemala’s orphan crisis for Wide Horizons For Children. Both images will be published in the AP26 Photo Annual in November. Of the 8,000+ images submitted to the contest, 314 images were selected for the book.  To see my images and the other award winners, visit this link.

Adobe has posted a new Lightroom video on YouTube featuring me shooting ice climbing and processing the images with Lightroom 3. I was excited to share my favorite features of Lightroom (it really is an amazing software, and I’m not just saying that) — plus it was fun to shoot on a beautiful ice climb near my home! Special thanks to cinematographer Kent Harvey for his great job filming the piece and Dave Wruck for his talented editing.