Virginia City Grand Prix - 4/30/2016

Virginia City, NV

Spent a very cold morning watching the start of the First day of the Virginia City Grand Prix race. 500 bikes, with a minimum of riding four hours to earn a finish. Mud and snow made for great track conditions.

The crowded Main Street

Sombrero Seth, hometown South San Fran!

checking bike and helmet for all the ID stuff

Only girl I saw racing the first day!

Rain

Dead last guy number...

an eclectic example of windows and doors..

Dusting of snow on mountains

Starting line (10 bikes every 30 seconds)

 

  

After one lap you start to look like this.

City Hall Wedding: Simon and Perry!

A couple weeks ago I got to shoot a fun wedding at San Francisco's City Hall. Family came out from both the UK and from Montana, and everyone was excited to see Simon and Perry tie the knot at the top of the stairs.

The comfy benches of City Hall

from the long wait in the hallway to exploring the rest of the building...

 

I don't know why this struck me as a good idea: Look Up

The lads' reaction to a fairly gaudy bride's gown (possibly a quinceañera dress)

A perhaps slightly better use of the Look UP direction!

Funny other couple who photobombed our shot at the last minute...

Babes in the Wood: Zoe

Ah Oregon:

I drove up last month to the fair state of OR, and did some camping, with the ultimate goal of meeting up with an old Seattle pal to take photos and hang out. His girlfriend's daughter was game to be shot in the woods, so I brought up lights and scouted for a cool location near Lincoln City, where we all stayed.

Andy Brown, helper to the stars!

My pal Andy has a great podcast series, called Rain City Bunker. Seattle roommates in the early 90s, he's been a part of a number of my photos in the past. It was fun to re-collaborate and meet up on the road. Here's an amazing photo of him and three ensigns, from our meet-up at Comicon in 2009:

Yaquina Bay Bridge

super-cool arch rock and anemone rock

trail to Oregon's tallest bridge, but it abruptly ended with no bridge in sight.

Nor Cali mega-redwood

Ding-dong dork not reading signs at all and trying to get gored by elk

2015 Hollister Rally

3rd of July brought me down to Hollister, CA again to people-watch and ride vintage bikes into the modern Harley show chaos. We started the ride from pal Jason's house in Morgan Hill, and were led 30 miles by his 1972 Bonneville. Tony was on his 1969 Aermacchi / Harley-Davidson and his pal Keith rode Tony's 1973 Yamaha dt250, while I rode my 1971 bmw r75/5.

truck is great for three dirtbikes, way more sketch for precious vintage bike cargo..

Sunscreen is a very important part of Hollister

So Cal in tha house

red white and blue... and leather vests

plenty of tee shirts to buy

Loved this lady!

Jason and Jesse see something awesome...

almost married this guy, almost

those little dogs have matching pink sunglasses on!

made this guy stall about 10 seconds later #tippytoes

The ride back home