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Apr 22

by matthew in Action, Travels, Video 0 comments tags: db skimboards, skim, skimboarding

DB Skimboards European Tour: Sweden

Take a look at the video from my trip with DB Skimboards to Sweden, which was part of the DB European Tour. You can see more photos and the full story over at Skim Magazine: Click Here

Apr 07

by matthew in Portraits 0 comments tags: engagement portraits, kerry park, Portraits, sculpture park, seattle

Engagement portraits with Molly and Chris in Seattle

I had the opportunity to capture engagement portraits of Molly and Chris in Seattle at the beginning of April. We went to a few different locations and it was a pretty good time to say the least. I am looking forward to being their wedding photographer in the fall. Anyways, here’s some photos from the photo session.

Mar 29

by matthew in Action, Travels 0 comments tags: db skimboards, denmark, skimboarding

DB Skimboards European Tour: Denmark

I had the opportunity to travel and skimboard with DB Skimboards this summer and we ventured to Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Here’s some video, photos and words from our brief stay in Denmark. We had only a few hours to stay in Denmark and we found the best beach for skimboarding we could. The spot left a lot to be desired, but Friedrich and Daniel made the best of it using what they could find on the beach. Minus the naked old men it was a beautiful beach and was well worth the stop or at least we thought that until we got back to the van. As we walked back to the van we approached it and notice one of the doors was open. “We locked the doors for sure,” Dallas insisted and I ran up to the van where we could see someone broke a window and got into the van where they stole backpacks that were in the middle of the van. They didn’t have enough time to get everything, but the damage was done. They stole Dallas’s Nikon D5100, Daniels Cannon 55D, Adam and Logan’s wallets and passports, one of my credit cards, […]

Mar 27

by matthew in Action 0 comments tags: action, air, Bellingham, kiteboarding

Kiteboarding in Bellingham Bay

I have been checking Locust Beach on and off for a few months now when I needed to find a cutline only photo for The Bellingham Herald and Tuesday, March 25 I finally had the opportunity to try and capture some kiteboarding photos. I put on my wetsuit and grabbed to cameras and walked out as far as I could into Bellingham Bay. Patrick Harber, a Bellingham KitePaddleSurf employee, was the main person I took photos of since he was closer to the shore than the other kiteboarders. I really enjoyed capturing it and want to do it again for work and just for myself along with finally trying out kiteboarding. If I am going to stay in Bellingham there is no reason I shouldn’t be kiteboarding. You can see the full photo gallery over on BhamHerald.com by Clicking Here also.

Mar 22

by matthew in Macro, Video 0 comments tags: Bellingham, pnw, rain, wind

Bellingham rain and wind

I drive around a lot looking for photos for The Bellingham Herald and over the past couple weeks I also started shooting video of random things I see. Here’s an edit I put together of some scenes of rain and wind in Bellingham to the music of Manatee Commune.

Mar 17

by matthew in Action, Travels 0 comments tags: db skimboards, europe, skim, skimboard, skimboarding

DB Skimboards European Tour: Netherlands

I had the opportunity to travel and skimboard with DB Skimboards this summer and we ventured to Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Here’s some video, photos and words from our first stop in Denmark. We finished up at the 2013 DB Pro/Am in Washington state, some of us slept for a few hours and some of us stayed up all night and partied. We flew out of Seattle to the Netherlands early in the morning and the whole flight was filled with the anticipation of how the DB European Skim Tour would start. “The Netherlands was an amazing place to fly into,” said Adam Balaam. “It was all super flat and loaded with farmland. As far as you could look there were grassy fields and windmills, lots of large metal windmills.” We arrived at the Amsterdam airport with our luggage and board bags and were picked up by Friedrich Fluh and his father Michael in a large Ford van. In the parking garage Friedrich greeted us all with beers. We were finally in Europe. Although we were exhausted from the flight and the contest the day before we drove straight to Adrien Raza’s hours in the Rotterdam, Netherlands, […]

Mar 09

by matthew in Music 0 comments tags: Bellingham, concerts, el ten eleven, live music, music, wild buffalo

El Ten Eleven live in Bellingham

I am a huge El Ten Eleven fan and I was able to see them live again for the second time at the Wild Buffalo in Bellingham. They put on a great show once again and had different visuals, so it was nice to mix it up a bit. You can see all my photos of El Ten Eleven here: Click Here For Full Gallery.

Mar 08

by matthew in Music 0 comments

Whats Up! 16th Anniversary: Manatee Commune, Learning Team and Wild Throne

Last Saturday was the 16th anniversary of Bellingham’s music magazine Whats Up! Bellingham turned into one large music venue with bands playing everywhere. I managed to bounce around and saw Manatee Commune at the Wild Buffalo, Learning Team at MakeShift and Wild Throne at the Shakedown and here’s a few photos.

Mar 02

by matthew in Music 0 comments tags: Bellingham, live music, music, voyager, wild buffalo

Voyager live in Bellingham

On Friday night Voyager, a 80s cover/tribute band from Bellingham, had me take photos of them at the Wild Buffalo. Find out more about Voyager and find upcoming show on their Facebook page here: facebook.com/voyagerlive/ And here’s a little bit more about the band… “This group of intergalactic youngsters pull out all the stops to put on the most Hi-Voltage, Fun Lovin’ show they possibly can. They specialize in 80s heavy metal/hard rock/glam rock with plenty of surprises in between. Come see the Heavy Metal Metal Masters of the Universe in all their denimed and leathered glory as they continue to rise in the ranks of the local/regional scene and play places that no 80s cover/tribute band has played before. For their money there is no better theme music for a big party than Hard Rock and 80s Heavy Metal and they are fully committed to bringing it back.”

Feb 25

by matthew in News 0 comments tags: Bellingham, car accidents, sledding, snow, snow storm, snowboarding, snowmen, snowpocalypse, whatcom county

Bellingham Snowpocalypse 2014

It wasn’t really a snowpocalypse, but the snow is always a story. I spent pretty much 16-hours outside the past two days capturing the snow storm in Bellingham for The Bellingham Herald. Sledding, snowboarding, car accidents, snow men, kayaks and more were some of the images I tried to capture. You can see more of my photos along with fellow photojournalist Philip A. Dwyer’s work in the following to links: Snow photos day 1: Click Here Snow photos photos day 2: Click Here My favorite part is the early morning when the sound is deadened by the snow and there is no one around. These are a few of those “moments” that I captured Monday morning before work. Anyways, snowpocalyse 2014 is coming to a close and it was pretty entertaining.