randy braley PHOTO BLOG – v 1.0

Cedar Wright on “Brick Attack” 5.12b – Cave Creek, Arkansas
Nikon D700 | 24-70mm f2.8

With spring upon us, it can only mean that summertime music festivals are just around the corner!  These are images of Mindi Abair at the 2009 Jazz in the Woods Music Festival.  Good news is looks like she will be returning in 2010.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 70-200mm f.28

 
An opportunity presented itself for me to spend a long weekend in Jasper, Arkansas climbing & photographing with  friends. Mother nature was in a good mood and provided us warm, sunny temps all weekend.
The image above was taken around sunset on Saturday.   The location was already in shade so I placed an SB800 on a stand [...]

The weather in KC has been crazy this winter.  Seems like every weekend we wake up to some new snow.  This has been going on since Christmas. This past Sunday the fam was feeling a bit cagey by Sunday so we headed out on a walk to burn off some energy.
Note to self – bring fingerless gloves [...]

My first Cover. Granted I didn’t get paid and it’s not a printed piece. But it is a cover!
A friend from work is uber involved in all things Mountain Biking here in the Midwest. I went out and shot a race that he organized this past fall and he asked if I would mind him [...]

This past September I made a point to go shoot the final stage of the 2009 Tour of Missouri which was held in Kansas City. The final stage was a 72-mile circuit race that worked its way around downtown Kansas City. I made a point of driving the course the weekend prior to the race [...]

  One of the drawbacks to being the one that always has a camera in your hand is that you rarely have pictures of yourself.  Fortunately in my case I have a good friend who likes to shoot as much as me and made the effort to take this picture of me climbing this past [...]