Next there's Randal Yokomoto, who I also met on the recent June 2022 tour.

Randal's work is incredible (gallery show worthy!) and I couldn't believe it when he told me that he doesn't do anything with it. Randal, if you're reading this, I am happy to see that you've started sharing your work on Instagram recently at least.

He took the following image of me at Professor Valley and I just think it's beautiful. I love how it seems to be moving. Nothing was actually moving in this photo, besides maybe my hair, but something about the directionality of all the textures just gives it movement.

This image is a great example of how the full scenery, while beautiful, is not always needed. I love it when photographers get in and take tighter frames. 
 

Then we have Andrew H, who I used to work with a lot in 2012 back when he was more new to photography.

I hadn't heard from him much since then, then randomly he reached out to hire me again to shoot in March of 2021. During our shoot he was asking about UTadventure and after listening to me rant about all the things I love about these tours he just nonchalantly said "Oh, good, because I signed up for the tour that you're on in June."

I laughed and smacked him pretty hard on the shoulder I think. 

 

I love the movement in the image at the salt flats. I think it also echoes the aforementioned connectedness (to self, ether, etc.) that I pointed out in the images Lars took of me.

The other one is a bit religious themed, which is not the typical style of photography that occurs on UTadventure, but hey I like variety.

We just walked up and saw this circular stick on the ground and I just had to get some Jesus shots in there.

Andrew provided a lot of comedic relief on tour too between his tongue-in-cheek wittiness and his loud fashion sense which was better than caffeine at 7am. 

Next is Joe Symchyshyn, who graced us with his presence on the September 2019 tour.

Joe is one of the most kind-hearted people I have had the pleasure of meeting and I quite enjoyed getting to know him on tour.

I also love how his photography so well captures the sheer majesty of the locations we shot in, as you can see in the following images. Joe is also, to my knowledge, the only photographer to have shot panoramas on UTadventure.

He did so by taking three separate images and digitally stitching them together. I enjoyed how he shot in a very slow and deliberate way.

He would see the shot he wanted, get his gear set up and point out where he wanted me in the frame. I'd jump in and do a few different poses and that was all he wanted.

He didn't waste time by just clicking away.

All his shots were very intentional and I'm sure it saved him a ton of time later going through images because he had less to go through and they were all winners.