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World Cup preview for ESPN Magazine

Check out the lastest issue of ESPN's magazine on the World Cup. I traveled to Sao Paulo to find this residential street covered in Brazil's national colors to photograph the preview. Gabriel, pictured, here, was my main soccer star. He eventually got hurt (tough kid!) but bounced back quickly, waving his country's flag and kicking the ball. If he saw this picture, it would have made up some old game wounds :0) 

Brazil's Romario for NYT

"One of Brazil’s biggest soccer stars is now the Brazilian World Cup’s biggest critic?" Read more here:

Romario, a World Cup Champion, Is now a World Cup Dissenter

 

favela mma - RJ

Caught wind of a cool community event last saturday in Rocinha, a community, otherwise known as a favela, in zona sul of rio de janeiro. Favela Kombat MMA is a mixed-martial event bringing contending semi-professional fighters from Rio's favelas into the octagon, some for the first time. The first tournament was held in Rocinha, on Saturday, March 9, 2013. The community paid in food donations, affording access for fans to watch an organized mixed-martial arts event, and for many their first time seeing a live octagon fight.

Stanford quarterback portrait for the New York Times

A couple weeks ago I found myself feeling quite collegiate on the Stanford campus for a portrait shoot of their star quarterback Andrew Luck, for the NY Times. Working with photography restrictions of shooting at specific locations, and a 1pm shoot time during a beautiful, bright and sunny afternoon, I had to shoot a variety of images within 20 minutes of my shoot time before the young star dashes off for his wraps and practice. Below are a couple outtakes. Special thanks to Brad, the sports editor, for giving me a shout!

Surfer Portraits

I'm working on a storyboard about a little surf town in Mexico and got distracted in making these images of local surfers for the blog to share. These guys have seen their little fishing village transform over the past 10 yrs to a tourist destination. And now, themselves have gained a little from the tourism, such as providing a business teaching surfing, or taking surfers out on charter boats, and family business of restaurants and bars.

Burro -

Tigre -

Jose Luis -

Chile -

Tarzan -

Jaripeo -- cattle style

I think typically at these rodeos cowboys ride bulls, but in this case, the ranchers of Las Canas used their own cattle grazers. The event was just outside of San Miguel de Allende, at a ranch/pueblo.