More Sturgis Portraits

Here's a few more photos from Sturgis 2007.

Sturgis Portraits

I finally processed the photos I took at Sturgis Bike Rally. I had to get up at 6am this morning to do at school before my class started. I'm excited about a lot of the photos I got, however I noticed some of them have some minor motion blur. As if my shutter speed wasn't fast enough. I find that weird because I never shoot hand-held below 1/60th of a second and with a 80mm lens on a medium format camera that should be plenty. So I'm a bit annoyed with that.








A friend of mine told me, after seeing some of these portraits:
"Each face holds a certain strength and yet an underlying vulnerability"
I thought that to be very true and observant. The eyes give a lot away in a person.

With each one of these portraits I had to ask them to remove their sun glasses. It difficult to capture a true portrait when the subject is hiding.

Beethoven in the Rain

I just got back from 4 days in Chicago. We saw the sites, walked the streets and rode the "L" (elevated train).

Some of the more note-worthy sites would have to be the Art Institute of Chicago. After spending 3 hours appriciating the art, I hadn't even made a dent. There was one contemporary photographer's work on display that was very interesting. Jeff Wall. He shot large format and enlarge some of his work to be around 10' x 14' absolutely huge!


I also went to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. That place is massive. Inside resides an actual German U- boat, a 727 jet liner and a couple trains. I was impressed.







Of everything I saw in Chicago, the most moving would have to be the live concert at Millenium Park. Within the park is an outdoor ampetheater where a full live orchestra was playing Beethoven. It was an experience being surrounded by sky scrapers and enjoying the classics. Then it started to rain. How appropriate to have the natural sounds of the woodwinds, strings and brass accompanied by the sound of the pooring rain, thunder and flashes of lightning. By time we left I was completely drenched.

Sturgis 2007

Sturgis, SD 2007. I have never seen so many motorcycles, holy crap. I was a little disappointed at how many non-bikers/tourists were there, but it was still pretty fun.
I left American Fork at 6:30pm and drove all night. I stopped once to take a cat-nap.






I took about 50 portraits of bikers to add to my project portfolio. I plan on processing the film next week. This week I'm off to Chicago.