Four years ago I just showed up to Dead Cow out of the blue. Today it’s a place where I find some of my closest friends.

Most folks will spend the vast majority of their best years employed in one form or another. Being self-employed gives me the ability to have something of a say so in the people I spend that time around. My job is to shine a light on cool people doing cool shit, literally and figuratively. The fringe benefit is that I get to spend my time around cool people doing cool shit.

Imagine the kind of personality it takes to run motorcycles with no brakes. Now get a bunch of those folks together and make’m RACE! Speedway racing is just as exciting as it looks. But the characters are the best part. https://vimeo.com/656630529

In making my living behind the camera all these years, I’ve hung out with countless characters — from all walks of life. That said, the back country aviation community is full of personality, and is one of the most welcoming and friendly groups I’ve been a part of. Blake and his dad David Nervino are proof positive.

Hugging the contours of the earth in a 1943 Navy biplane, half way across the country.

If you are the average of the people you surround yourself with, I consider myself fortunate.

Making my living behind a camera for a couple decades has meant that my knowledge base six feet wide and an inch deep. I could probably tell you a little bit of something about almost anything.