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  • Blue Skies Magazine #33 Featured Photo

    I would like to thank Kolla, Lara & Pierre from  Blue Skies Magazine for making one of my recent images their featured photo! It depicts Bill Butler (AXIS Flight School Student) and myself completing a “Compressed Stack” over Skydive Arizona. BTW, if you don’t have a subscription to Blue Skies Magazine, what are you waiting for?  Click…

  • Parachutist Cover July 2012 Issue 633

    I would like to thank USPA‘s Parachutist for utilizing one of my resent photographs for the July 2012 cover spot. The image depicts a hybrid flying over Skydive Arizona while Arizona Arsenal‘s Steve Curtis lurks above.

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – Back-fly Neutral Position

     

  • PD Sabre 2 Ad

    I would like to thank Scott Jontes from Performance Designs for creating the advertisement below. It features an image he took of me flying a Sabre 2 during a photo shoot in Palatka Florida back in April of 2010.

  • Sun Path Ad featuring Arizona Airspeed

    Here is the new Sun Path Ad comprised from an image taken by Bill Schmitz and myself. The podium shot was taken at the 2011 USPA Nationals at Skydive Arizona.

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – Head Down Break-off

  • Photos featured on US Parachute Team website

    “The U.S. Team has a long, proud tradition of representing the United States in international parachuting competitions dating back to the 1950s. This year is especially exciting, as the team will compete in the 2012 FAI Mondial (all events) Championships at the magnificent skydiving venue in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. While making the U.S. Team…

  • PARA-MAG #300 COVER

    After the picture was digitally altered by Para-Mag, the image below ended up on the cover of the 300th edition! Please click here to view the digital version. If you missed my previous CYPRES 2 Peace of Mind post, here is the video of the cover shot moment – Enjoy 🙂

  • Swoop footage on the Travel Channel

    Recently I was contacted by cheri sundae productions, who expressed interest in airing some of my canopy footage on  the Travel Channel‘s “When Vacations Attack“. Even though the shot was my idea, I have to give credit to Brianne Thompson of AXIS Flight School for making it happen 🙂 Recorded by two back-to-back GoPro‘s (see right), the individual footage was…

  • The Longest Malfunction In Skydiving History

    I received a little love from iLoveSkydiving.org, who reposted a malfunction video I posted on YouTube last year. Thanks guys and keep up the good work!!! “This has to be one of the longest parachute malfunctions I’ve ever seen. In fact, I made a sandwich halfway through it. Long story short, Niklas Daniel of AXIS Flight…