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Category: Photography

  • Playing with Crayons and the Arizona Sun

  • Anyone who has been in the sport for more than ten minutes knows or recognizes the name Rickster Powell. Rickster is a professional test jumper for Performance Designs and has logged more than 20,000 jumps! In addition to being an amazing canopy pilot, he is also a highly accomplished photographer with many national and international competitions under his…

  • “Todd Love – you might not know the name…yet, but you’ve probably seen some pictures or videos of him.  You’d remember because those were the images that immediately made you stop whining about how hard your day was and how you just couldn’t do something because it was too difficult.  He often has that effect…

  • “If you’re like me, you love skydiving because it makes you feel alive.  If you’re like Todd Love, everything you do is to celebrate the fact that you’re still alive and you live your life to the fullest.  25 October 2010 is what Todd calls his “Alive Day.” This is the day he survived stepping…

  •     I would like to thank 90Percent (Italian Skydiving Magazine) for utilizing one of my Freefly photographs for the March 2013 cover spot. It depicts Steve and Sara Curtis of Arizona Arsenal doing a fun jump over Skydive Arizona. To check out the PDF version of the magazine, please click here.

  • I would like to thank CanPara (Canadian Skydiving Magazine) for utilizing one of my VFS Team Evolution photographs for the February – March 2013 cover spot.

  • Design by Seth Parr – http://www.elegeniuspromo.com   

  • I would like to thank Dave at Skydive Radio for making my image below their pic of the week! Skydive Radio is the world’s leading internet radio show dedicated to the sport of skydiving.  Weekly episodes include commentary, feature interviews with industry insiders, listener-contributed photos, and e-mails from an audience that spans the globe.

  • I would like to thank 90Percent (Italian Skydiving Magazine) for utilizing one of my Arizona Airspeed photographs for the January 2013 cover spot. The photo depicts the U.S. Arizona Airspeed 4-way formation skydiving team’s videographer, Bill Schmitz, filming Thomas Hughes, Josh Hall, Niklas Hemlin and Mark Kirkby as they fly their way to become the 2012 USPA National Skydiving…