Blotto is da boss

I borrowed this photo off his website.
So a few of us were fortunate enough to hang with Blotto this winter and get to shoot photos with him. The man gets shit done. He was always helping us set up and tear down spots, constantly making us laugh, and was always on point with the photos he shot.
Blotto has a website http://www.blottophotto.com/ if you get a sec you check it out. He has this real sweet section called featured bikes, he is constantly blogging and also has stickers you can order. There are so many other goodies on his web site to keep you entertained for days.

february 3rd, random day for february.

Today was pretty rad woke up grabbed some coffee, got a call from Eric Fernandez regarding a skateboard session, (since it doesn't snow in SLC) and thought that I should join. I mostly just chilled with Buster the dog in the first photo, but I did end up ripping around the bowls for a minute! super fun, and my stomach stayed together!

After a good skate session, I went home to find in the mail my first paycheck ever from Burton snowboards! haha thirty five dollars! Brandon and I were super pumped about it. (Really I just got reimbursed)

Then Blotto showed up again, he is a traveling Gypsy!

JANUARY (up until now)

Although it hasn't snowed in the city recently, the snow has stuck around thanks to the inversion, which is the worst I've ever seen. 5 Utah cities have ranked top 5 worst air in the nation for about 5 days now (Logan, Ogden, Salt Lake, Provo, & some random place). Blotto decided to leave his downtime in AZ to come up & shoot/stay at Sean's so we've been out almost every day in this crap air. I've actually only been out maybe 7 days total this year & still have yet to film a single rail.. Well, a single rail that doesn't involve a gap to it. Either way, the edit with all of these features should turn out pretty sweet & definitely is on the creative tip. I've been trying to compose my shots of these spots with more of a photographic eye & I'm real happy with most of them that I've been able to do so with. It has also been very helpful to have other filmers around for 2nd angles that can capture the action from other views to compliment it. (Thanks to Aaron Leyland, Sean Lucey, & Mark Dangler for the help shooting with Alex Andrews, Sean Black, Tucker Andrews, Brandon Hammid, & Zak Hale.)

Good thing it's winter & wasps are dead.

GTSing Blotto GTSing.

Alex examining other possibilities. There's a lot of cement here.

Shovels, propane tanks, torches, bungees, $5000 cameras, etc. Ridiculous.

Sean's shot on this is going to drop jaws. I've never had to shoot something in the street so wide.. 35.5 feet, lip to rail.

Brendan Gerard: Scarecrow.

Keep out of reach of children.

As gross as it is, the smog creates some crazy sunsets.

Putting the Banshee Bungee to good use this year.. Haven't used a drop in once.

Get this guy off school property!

Jeremy came out with us & we went straight to a spot but were still undecided.

When I first noticed this possibility I thought I was being unrealistic..

And it is probably the craziest/most awesome thing I've ever shot or witnessed in person.

Just thought the composition of this was cool.

Jumping rooftops.

Blotto is always in a good mood, & eating sandwiches while driving.

Algae, fungi, mold, whatever you wanna call it.

Alex unfortunately ruptured his spleen & had to get it removed, which is actually better now since he won't have to sit around for 2 months letting it heal.