On my way to a home and garden show assignment, I saw this guy and his pal shooting pool as the sun set downtown.

Stopped in, shot a couple frames and enjoyed the poolhall vibe before my immersion into the world of petunias and begonias.

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DU’s Chris Udofia is nice.

Nice in terms of his game for sure, but genuinely nice in terms of being human.

The former gets your picture taken, the latter is what matters.

I wish I could qualify his presence with an anecdote befitting of Tim Tebow, but I cannot. Just take my word and the words of everyone I met in the gym who attested to his niceness.

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Taking a break from work-related postings to show a photo of me with my best girl in the whole world — Noa Magnolia.

God, I fucking love her.

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No more football, no more summer festivals, the Nuggets and Avs have been in short supply… so I drive around looking for stuff to shoot.

Took a while to get this. Not my best effort, but I was glad I found something before the sun went down.

Rookie mistake #322 when shooting last-second art: do not get your car in the frame.

F***.

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Mitt Romney spoke to a crowd of supporters and a yawning teen.

I was there, too.

Here is an account as dictated by me via my mental notes:

Romney has nice hair.

Very strong jaw.

His pants were too high for my liking, but he looked comfortable.

Supporters of Romney cheered at the things he said.

He did not say much.

The speech was brief as were the underwear of choice in the gymnasium… based on a hunch.

Obama was fiercely disliked.

So much that the mere delivery of these three syllables — oh-baa-ma — were met with a 2,700 person scoff.

That’s a lot of hot air blowing at once, but the warmth was well received in favor of the frigid February air.

Romney is convinced he is Obama’s opponent. No mentions of other GOP hopefuls. Period.

The guy is confident.

The guy is charming.

The guy looks like he makes a hell of a stew.

But is he the next president of the United States?

Your guess as good as mine.

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At my previous job, I shot a lot of portraits. Now, I shoot some, but not with great regularity.

Thus, I am often unprepared… more so than previously.

When shooting with a lighting setup requiring remotes, do not forget the remotes. Again I will repeat, do not forget the remotes.

I forgot the remotes.

Luckily, my strobes sync off of each other, so I had a couple lights.

Naturally, they did not sync.

Shoot… no pun intended, though they are ample in this instance.

One light, a big a soft box, a lot of balls, one custodian patiently waiting to clean the floor.

A few frames, a couple poses, etc.

I guess it works. Could be better. My mom will probably like it.

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As I left a standard hockey portrait assignment at DU yesterday, I turned up University Boulevard and caught a glimpse of this moment. Immediately, I thought Chip Litherland. Though I am by no means a Litherlandesque shooter, I do admire his work a great deal.

Traffic was a nightmare and I could not make the frame from my car. Frantically, I sought parking. Naturally, there was none.

So… I parked illegally on top of an elderly couple and ran over to snap a couple frames. The girl only remained for a few minutes before her sister — the reason for her waiting — arrived and the frame was gone.

It all worked out in my favor. Made a decent frame and the elderly couple didn’t press charges. They understood my panicked rush job to make this frame. They must be Litherland fans, too.

Check out Chip Litherland’s work: www.chiplitherland.com/blog

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Shot the X Games in Aspen for five days last week. It is brutal.

It is cold, shooting locations are restricted, hiking up hill both ways in the snow is not just something your grandpa says — it’s an every-single-assignment reality.

The X Games is challenging and I wasn’t even at risk of falling 30 feet from the air onto hard-packed snow.

Aside from said challenges, however, it is pretty fun. The whole thing is kind of surreal. For 12 hours a day, I watched as people flung themselves into the sky like Matchbox cars from a kitchen table. It’s more a parallel reality than the reality I know the other 360 days of the year.

And for the rest of the year when I complain about how cold and how difficult and how frustrating X Games is…

I know I won’t turn down the chance to go back if chosen.

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This is Humphrey. He is an English Sheep Dog and he has been replaced.

This morning I got a last-second assignment to photograph a new home security system by XFinity. It was a standard gadgets kind of shoot.

As the owner of the home and a company executive interviewed, I hung out with the recently retired guard dog, Humphrey.

And what did I find? He’s a real cool dude.

Humphrey enjoys haning out, sometimes getting a pet and scratch, while being mellow the whole time.

Luckily, I think Humphrey is content just being retired.

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I am still too cold and tired from my trip to Foxborough to write much. Everyone knows what happened.

I’ll close with this, “The grace of our quarterback Tim Tebow be with you all. Amen.”

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