Friends, family, and fellow athletes gather to honor and remember Sarah with a candlelight vigil in the SuperPipe.

I was recently approached by the photo editor of GO: AirTran Inflight Magazine to do a cover shoot for them as well as the feature story on Seafood here in the Pacific Northwest. They feature HDR photography on all of their magazine covers and found my HDR photography suited their style. They wanted a beach picnic scene at sunset with a couple eating fresh seafood and a local chef serving them. Luckily I had been working with local restaurateur Ethan Stowell, who owns Staple & Fancy, How to Cook a Wolf and a couple other great places around Seattle. He was the local chef that was being featured in the cover story so he was able to meet me at the beach to shoot. I called up my favorite Seattle power couple, Matt and Carina Walters, who’s wedding i shot earlier in the year to be my models.

We headed out to Discovery Park, which I go to a lot because of the great scenery and the unbelievable sunsets, to see if we could get the shots we needed. The shots we got were fantastic but not what the art director had wanted. He was looking to shoot at Second Beach in La Push and that’s what we needed to do.

A few days later I packed up my gear and headed North up the Olympic Peninsula and found myself in the town where they shot Twilight. I had never seen the movies but there was a lot of buzz around the movies in Forks, WA. This is the final image that we came up with for the November cover.

Here is the Cover story feature which includes most of my photographs.

To all my fellow Lightroom nerds out there…this new beta is unreal. Started using it today and the changes are impressive.

Lightroom 4 beta is now available as a free download! http://adobe.ly/wqoXq5 The team has been working on new features like the geo-tagging map module, DSLR video support, photo book creation and much more. Read all about the beta on the Photoshop.com blog: http://adobe.ly/yyghqX. Share your feedback with us in the comments!

Images that I recently worked on with Sean O’Pry have hit the pages of nordstrom.com. Look for the men’s holiday gift guide and you will see some of my handy work. We had a great two days on set with Sean, who as of two weeks ago became the most successful male model in the industry.

In 2006, 17-year-old O’Pry was scouted from his prom photos on MySpace by Nolé Marin; fashion-icon, model-maker, TV personality and past judge from America’s Next Top Model. Bert Hamilton, a photographer from Sean’s home state of Georgia, took the picture featured on this article before his career took off.

Since then, O’Pry has been featured in numerous advertising campaigns and editorials for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferré, H&M, Marc Jacobs, Emporio Armani, Lacoste, Dsquared2, American Eagle, Bottega Veneta, DKNY, Fendi, GQ, Dazed & Confused, V, Details, Barneys, Uniqlo, Bloomingdale’s, Belstaff, D2, Arena, Diesel, Gap, JOOP! and Numéro Homme. He is currently the face of Bottega Veneta and Zara.

His runway credentials include opening Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy and Salvatore Ferragamo, and closing Moschino, Trussardi and Zegna. Other designers he has walked for include Roberto Cavalli, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, and Hermes.

He is currently the most successful male model in the world on models.com list of the Top 50 international male models, as of September 2011. In June 2009, he was named the world’s most successful male model of 2009 by Forbes publications. Previously, he was named the world’s eighth most successful male model of 2008 by the same magazine. He was the face of Calvin Klein for several seasons and is best known for being GQ’s Man of the Season in 2007.

So, after more than a year from starting work on this story it has finally been published. Brad and I worked on this a lot. We traveled to Chile together twice and then to Jackson Hole and Tahoe a few times. He snored and drank a ton, but at the end of the day it was all worth it.

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