Chantilly VA Warrior Challenge

On May 19th I photographed the fights for the Warrior Challenge promotion in Chantilly VA.  Another great night of fights.  I'm still working on the photographs from a May 12th wedding I shot, I'll get some of those posted soon. I met a photographer there, but didn't catch his name. He came up and asked me who I shot for. I told him the promoter and free-lance media (I string for papers sometimes, or I contribute to others so on so forth). He said, oh cool, I'll stay out of your way. So when the guys were walking up to the cage, this guy is right in front of me. I'm thinking, "oh, out of my way, right?" No big deal, I don't like confrontation, so I just work around him. Besides, I like the idea of meeting new people. Well one of the workers there knew me from the previous show, and asked me if he was with me. I said, "nope, I just met the guy". They went over and gave the guy an earful, as I didn't see him doing what we was doing before. So strange dude, if you're reading this I just wanted to let you know I didn't say anything to get you in trouble and I hope you know that I had nothing to do with it. Sorry man.

Last evening in Boalsburg PA, Mayhem on the Mountain's 1st event took place.  I've heard different reports on the number of people that were there.  I can't really make an educated guess on it.  The values were between 300 and 1300. 

There were 10 fights on the card.  There was to be 11, but one of the fighters failed...badly to make weight.  I do not know the whole story on why, so I cannot comment on it.  I just know 164 is not 155. 


As always you can visit my website to view the full gallery Mayhem On the Mountain Gallery

The event results as told to me are,

Jason Royer defeated Scott Chandler by unanimous decision 2:00 of round 3

Glenn Barnes defeated Jesse Price by TKO round 2

Tyler Feist defeated Brandon Watkins by unanimous decision 2:00 of round 3.

Colby Slonaker defeated Scott Diggs by unanimous decision 2:00 of round 3.

Jordan Morales defeated Darlington Peralta by submission (guillotine choke) round 1.

Mike Hefflefinger defeated Tyler Saltsman by disqualification (kick the head of a downed opponent) round 1.


(PRO FIGHTS)

Brad Mountain defeated Greg Wolfe by submission (arm bar) round 1.

Eric Steppe defeated Adam Renn by submission (rear naked choke) round 2.

Lewis Rumsey defeated Robert Corpora by submission (guillotine choke) round 1.

Brendan Barrett defeated J.A.Dudley by submission (strikes) round 1.

Circus 2012

Hello everyone, I don't have a lot of time to post tonight, but I wanted to get a few of these out here, before I go back to editing a few other projects. For anyone that is wondering, for about every hour a photographer shoots, we spend about that much time behind a computer, if not longer. Here's a few shots from the recent 2012 Jaffa Shrine Circus. I'm a fellow Shriner, and it feels great to be a part of something that does something this fantastic. The show was wonderful this year. My wife, my son and I went. It was their birthday (they share a birthday). Here's the photos :)

Warrior Challenge ESU

On April 7th, I was at Warrior Challenge MMA at ESU.  It was a great show put on by Mark. 
The fights were action packed, and everyone there had a great time.  Here's just a few from the evening.  I'm spending a lot of time researching this whole website change-up thing, and I need to get back to that.  I just wanted to get some of the photos out there. 

As a bonus to this post, I'm going to post the Warrior Challenge photos from VA on the 17th of March as well.  As always, you can see the full galleries on my website,

Warrior Challenge 4_7_12

Warrior Challenge 3_17_12

Coffee Break

I shot this for Red Eye Coffee Company in March. Wanted to post it, but had some recent event photos to put up. I've got Warrior Challenge 16 photos to put up from the 7th, but I'll put them up this weekend. Shooting a friend's band during the Jeff Wallack Memorial Show at Pellegrines Saturday night, so maybe I'll do a double feature. Please forgive my site, I'm slowly learning to redo it myself. My webmaster has retired from service, and I figure web design is something I can add to my bag of tricks. The subject of our Coffee Break is JJ from Red Eye, and the Red Eye brand. Pretty cool assignment. Was able to break out my "travel pack" (as I need to break away from education I won't get into the specifics. Just Canon 580EXII's on my portable Bogen stands). I also shot all primes this day as well. It was a great time, and interesting getting some looks from everyone in the mall.