Joshua Duplechian Photography

Lockdowns, allergies to chlorine, and a PT Cruiser. Three items that have never had much relevance to the Mountain West Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in Oklahoma City until last weekend. Here are a few images which hopefully show, in a diverse way, what it’s like to spend three days in a pool.

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Walking to the local pub had me on a slight detour. Here’s what peaked the curiosity.

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Not too many of these types left in the days of automated laser guided machinery. My goal with this overall cycling project has always been about the people behind the bike. This is Joe Depaemelaere. Much like a freelance photographer he is the marketing, production, human resources, builder,and general creative vision behind Primus Mootry Bicycles based in Longmont,Colorado. His craft started as a hobby and has progressed over the years. Please enjoy having a look into the shop. Thanks Joe.

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Made my way back over the the indoor Velodrome again the other day. We showed up late hoping for a scheduled race but soon found out that only two of them bothered to come that night. Regardless, they still raced until exhaustion.

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This is it. I promise. There’s just so much to share and quite frankly I, like so many photographers, am admittedly a terrible self editor. Back to your regular scheduled programming. Oh yeah, for the record I did photograph Mr. Shaun White more but the dude has some serious issues with showing his true emotions at this event. He just thanks the crowd after taking gold and is shuffled out of the venue by his handlers and security.

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Sometimes digital files are completely overwhelming. I managed to make 95 gigs of raw images in 5 short days. I’ve narrowed that down to just a couple more blog posts. Here’s number two. Thank you for looking.

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A big thanks to the crew at http://www.espn.com/action for another amazing Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain. After a long and eventful week of activity it’s nice to decompress a little and soak up all the fantastic images that were made by friends and fellow photographers Mark Kohlman and Dave Lehl. Here’s part one of several updates I plan on making from my take at the annual games. Enjoy.

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This week I make the annual voyage to Aspen,Colorado to document Winter X Games Fourteen. Check back throughout the week on the blog and on http://www.espn.com/actionsports for regular updates. Today’s update on the front of the site is a shot of snowmobiler Levi Lavallee from last year prior to the first ever double backflip.

As I sit here and type this I’m left to think about what my life and career have been like for the past year. Changes. Sounds very cliche but the word rings true after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News in late February. Certainly good and bad, but mostly good. Make that great in fact. I’ve been thankful that I can be allowed to keep doing what I love by communicating with my camera. Looking at some of the images I’m about to post I can’t help but see how my style and my storytelling has evolved over the past year. Rather than thinking about the impending tax season ahead I find myself quite excited this time of year to see where I’ll be taken with this career and how I can improve myself. Personal projects have been the core of what I am creating this year and I hope to extend that into the new year as I form more fruitful and meaningful relationships with my subjects. Thank you all so much for staying with me this year as I post a visual diary from my life. Cheers.

JD

Another year down, another opportunity to improve in the upcoming year. I’m planning the cliche 2009 recap sometime this week, but I thought in the meantime I’d share some images I shot on New Year’s eve prior to the sun going down. Enjoy for now. Keep checking back later this week for a sweet recap. Cheers.

JD