Supremacy Racing X FICE meet

On September 30 some bad ass cars and some dumb ass people came to downtown Salt Lake for The Finale, the last meet of the summer. As I pulled in front of FICE I saw a mess of cars backed up trying to get into the alley/parking lot behind the store. Knowing that my shit box wasn't worthy of being parked with the hotness I parked around the corner and walked on in. Here's what I saw through out the 6 and a half hours I was there:



Frank was tearing around on the phone trying to get people to the meet...I think


Gramps brought out his clean CRX, then admired the green gorilla on the wall behind the dumpster most of the night.


Frank's prime parking spot.


half of the parking situation behind the store



The RHD cars made the trek up from Provo


This is Jordan. He drew the lucky/unlucky straw and had to cover the meet for Tunerzine.com. This was his first time doing something like this, so naturally I bugged the living hell out of him. I got video of that, but it's not edited yet. Me torturing him will be up tomorrow.


This is the lucky part of event coverage: telling hot chicks to pose next to a car. I couldn't get them to do any posing cause I just had my point and shoot... Hoes


The unlucky part: Tony getting his "sexy" on

Now the rest of my pics (which can be seen here) are your standard meet picture fare. But me and Jordan did some serious collaborating and shot some bad ass pics after the meet. When those pics see the light of day I'll let you know, but in the meantime enjoy mine.

Last Installment of the Interesting Project

I'm shutting it down. It was a bit too ambitious, plus school has started up and I have a job that pretty much eliminates weekends. So here, with a heavy heart and broken ego, is the final installment of the Interesting Project: Ian Ramsrud







I met Ian in an english class at Salt Lake Community College. Everyone in the class was pretty friendly, but if a group project came up I always wanted to be in Ian's group. He was, and still is, very well spoken and eloquent and insightful. But it wasn't until I added my friend Dave as a friend on Facebook that I learned that Ian is an outstanding photographer. Better than myself, but that's not saying much. But let's stop this before it goes down the "he's interesting because he's a great photographer" road. Let's talk about the notes he's posted on his Facebook page shall we?

Most of them are long, but they're worth reading. They're insightful. A couple of them have made me do things, like go through every picture on my flickr page to see what cliches of bad photographers I have perpetrated and made me realize that I gotta fake it til I make it.

He's a hell of a guy, and my poor writing is not doing him justice. Revel in his presence in the portraits! He was super comfortable in front of the camera, and it was a fun little photo session

Supremacy Racing's "Fast Frank" video

Kel and Frank from Supremacy Racing and my boy Jordan Porritt busted their asses making this video. It's Jordan's first, and it's fucking unreal for a first go. Check it out and spread the love

supremacy racing presents "Fast Frank" from supremacy racing on Vimeo.

Supremacy Racing
Jordan Porritt Photography

Street skating

I was incredibly annoyed at Guth the other day so I invited Max and Jaren to go street skating. Jaren wanted to skate stairs so I told them about a spot I used to skate back in the day. This is photographic documentation of what happened:



First order of business at a spot is to warm up. Jaren was warming up with kickflips, until this attempt. On this one he bailed and messed up his ankle.


This is Jaren after the bail. He sat around, played on Max's iPhone, gave Clint and Tyler directions to the spot and told Max that every try was the one.


Speaking of Max here he is landing a heelflip. He called it right before this try.


Here's Tyler. He ollied the stairs and 180'd them, but I didn't get a good photo of either one, so here he is not landing something.


The landing was pretty rough and chewed up Max's hands.


Now Max got 2 tricks: a heelflip and a 360 flip. The heelflip wasn't so bad, but the 3flip was a battle of epic proportions and at times it looked like it was going to defeat him


He eventually defeated the 360 flip, but broke his tail in the process. We (Jaren, Clint, Tyler and myself) said it counted cause he rolled away on the broken tail but Max wasn't having it. So he flipped his board around, tried one more time, bailed and ripped his thumb open.

Went to the skatepark today

I didn't shoot anything, but I did time before last!:


Garriosn ollieing off the tear drop thing into the spine. I was cowering right where he was going to be riding away to. The things I do for a good photo


B angle of Garrison's ollie. Far safer, but not as cool.


Lil Jeff, day after his birthday. The kid gets buck, I wanna see him skate street or at least a park that isn't Guth.

That's all I got from Guth. I got some photos from a heated street mission I'll put up later. Believe you me, it was intense

Wide Open Wednesdays 8/12

On Wednesday I did what I've been doing on the second Tuesday of every month: treking out to Erda and wandering around a racetrack taking pictures. On the second Wednesday of every month the kind folks at Miller Motorsports Park open up the East Course to anyone with a car and $20. They turn the East Course into a Gymkhanna course, and by that I mean they put cones at different points on the track. It's a good way to get some track time. Anyway, here are some of the photos I shot:

Part 1 of the Interesting Project

Yes, finally the thing I've been talking about can be seen. I've only got this one and another one so I'm gonna hold on to the second until I shoot a third. Anyway, here it is. Part 1, my friend Jeffrey Eldridge:








Yes, that last one is of him in a Guy Fawkes mask. No, it's not a prop I have kicking around. He bought it at a Halloween store a few years after V for Vendetta came out. If he waited until they closed he could have hopped in the dumpster and grabbed one for free, but oh well. He also, occasionally, wears it on his drive home from work.

The first time I met Jeffrey was at a meet for a local car website. He was wearing black shoes, black pants, a black shirt and a black trench coat. In summer. It was interesting to say the least. That day was also the first time he drank a Mountain Dew.

Other interesting facts and/or out and out lies about Mr. Eldridge:

His PC, which he built himself, can run Crysis on full settings. Quite the impressive feat.
Has owned a 4th generation Honda Prelude, which he loved, until he wrecked it. T'was a sad day for all.
Also has had a hand in swapping a 302 ci Ford V8 into a 3rd generation Toyota Supra. Again, impressive feat.
He is Neo. He flies and everything, it's awesome
He's related to Justin Eldredge, professional skateboarder.

That's all I've got for now. There will be another, and hopefully another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another...

A scheduled shoot actually happened!

I can't believe it either. I get one more and this little project might see the light of day! Let's go over the list of people who bailed, and why they probably can't make a rescheduled shoot:

Dave Brewer- Blew up his car on the way over, and is now in Mexico working on his documentary project. Don't know when he's coming back, and one of his facebook statuses made it sound like he was probably gonna die down there.

Bobbo- Working. Damnit.

Yeah, that's about the list. There's one chick I want to ask cause she looks like a dumb blonde, but she has amazing taste in music but I don't know her too well so I'm kinda passing on that one for the moment.

So know that you know what's been going on, here's a pic of my Subaru! I'm going to shoot more pics of it this week, only because nobody seems to want a shoot.